YouTube Will Use AI to Determine if You’re Under 18

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YouTube just announced in a blog post: “Over the next few weeks, we’ll begin to roll out machine learning to a small set of users in the US to estimate their age so that teens are treated as teens and adults As adults.” right, And that program, notably, has already been rolled out in the UK because of the online safety act. and it's expected to force similar requirements in Australia by December, when a ban on social media for people under the age of 16 will start. which as an aside, I'll add that YouTube's actually pretty pissed about that because they were promised that they would be exempt from that, only for the Aussie government to go back on their word. You know, with this news, one of the big questions is how is it going to look in practice? and while it looks like YouTube's AI is going to rely on a ton of factors to guess a user's age to then cater what content they can access. So that will include what type of videos they watch and search for, the general categories of the videos, and how long an account has been active. right, and then if for whatever reason, the AI is actually wrong about a user's age, there are ways to contest it though at a steep cost of privacy. right, you'll be able to verify your age with a credit card, government ID, or a selfie. Also with this, there have been questions about how effective the AI actually is. right, YouTube tested the feature in Australia back in June and it was not guaranteed to be effective. However, I’ll also say this is not an entirely new thing. Since 2021, YouTube has tried to actively figure out who is and is not an adult with things like the supervised teen accounts in order to cater appropriate content for them. and You know, unsurprisingly, you have users concerned about what this is going to look like when it's rolled out, with some saying things like, “watch YouTube's AI not even consider channel age when auto flagging an account. Imagine owning an account/channel for 18 years and getting flagged for being under 18 years old because you watch too much Minecraft content.” and that as Others asked, “how is YouTube going to use AI to detect if a user is under 18, when it can hardly detect when a content ID claim is false?” But also some of the biggest concerns were just from the fact that YouTube will be collecting even more personal data on people.

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