Instagram will “proactively” accounts that belong to adolescents, even if they have inserted an inaccurate date of birth when they signed up for the application.
Instagram began to test the use of (IA) To determine if children are lying about their age in the application, the mother company said, cited by the agency .
According to the news agency, the goal has been using AI to determine people’s age for some time, but now Instagram will “proactively” accounts that belong to adolescents, even if they have inserted an inaccurate birth date when they were enrolled in the application.
Adolescent account has restrictions
If it is determined that a user is misrepresenting his age, the account will automatically become a teenager account, with more restrictions than an adult account.
For example, a teenage account is deprived by predefate, private messages are restricted, “sensitive content” are limited and adolescents receive a notification if they have been ‘online’ for more than 60 minutes, being an “suspension mode” activated.
Now the goal says it trains your AI to look for signs, such as the type of content with which the account interacts, profile information and when the account was created to determine the age of the owner.
Instagram will also send notifications to parents “with information about how they can talk to their adolescents about the importance of providing the right age ‘online’,” the news agency says.
Reinforced measures come at a time when social networking companies face greater scrutiny about how their platform affects the mental health and well-being of younger users.
