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YouTube Launched an AI Tool to Guess Your Age—and Restrict Your Account If It Thinks You’re a Child
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YouTube Launched an AI Tool to Guess Your Age—and Restrict Your Account If It Thinks You’re a Child
YouTube’s shiny new AI, designed to detect underage users, is already sparking outrage and concern across the internet. And it hasn’t even officially rolled out yet. From general grousing on Reddit threads to Change.org petitions, there’s a running theme throughout: this doesn’t feel like it’s about child safety. It feels like mass surveillance. The system, currently being tested in the U.S., doesn’t care what age you typed in when you signed up…
First tested in the United States, this technology is intended to be used in other countries.
Starting this week, YouTube in the United States will use an algorithm to check users' ages. The company also wants to implement this feature in Europe. How does it work?
YouTube and many platforms are regularly accused of giving health to children and adolescents. Technology should interpret “various signals”. Advertising will no longer be personalized and protective measures will be activated. YouTube has started to test an A.I. tool to identify its users’ age in the US, trying to protect better minors from online content and standards of navigation considered inappropriate for them, writes boursorama.com. Tech…
YouTube launches a highly unpopular AI age check in the USA, which automatically restricts users estimated to be under 18 years of age, but experts think that this may cause problemsYouTube has started testing an AI age estimation model in the United States, automatically applying restrictions to accounts that it considers to be belonging to users under 18 years of age. The platform explains that this initiative is aimed at...
In the United States, Youtube is experimenting with a new AI capable of guessing the real age of users. Objective: to limit targeted advertising and certain content for people under 18 years of age.
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