YouTube converts age verification into artificial intelligence

YouTube will start using machine learning to determine whether viewers should be at the expense of teenagers. Company It plans to start using the AI app on a sub -group of users in the coming weeks to conduct an experience before offering it to the rest of the market. The tool will evaluate the behavior of the user including the types of videos that are searched for, the categories of videos that were viewed and the time when the account was. When the account is considered through automatic learning to a teenager, YouTube will disrupt personal ads, activate digital luxury tools and add other guarantees to their younger users.

Since the presentation In 2021, YouTube continued to add It aims to its younger users. The company noted that it uses this automatic learning approach “in other markets for some time, where it works well.”

YouTube is not the only service to take advantage of the artificial intelligence tool to arrest users who may lie around their age. However, it puts the burden of correcting the wrong positives on its users: “If the system is incorrectly estimated that the user is less than 18 years old, they will have an option to check that it is 18 years old or more, such as using a credit card or a government identifier.” Meta has It started to launch Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger earlier this year, but it allows people to simply change their settings if the artificial intelligence instrument guess their age incorrectly.