YouTube will determine and restrict palace accounts with artificial intelligence

YouTube will soon start using an Amnesty International Age Technology to find out users under the age of 18. Starting August 13YouTube will discover users under the legal age in the United States based on their activity and their account, allowing the platform to apply restrictions automatically.

These accounts will get the same protection that YouTube already provides to users who define themselves as less than 18 years old, including a block on lifetime -bound videos, and non -personal ads, “Take a break”And Reducing frequent video recommendations About sensitive topics, such as body image. The platform will also automatically run reminders about privacy when users download a video or leave a comment.

YouTube will notify users if it determines that they are less than 18 years old, but if the platform is wrong, users can check their age by downloading a government identifier, taking a personal photo or entering a credit card. The platform indicates that some creators may “face a shift in their audiences classified as teenagers,” which may lead to a decrease in advertising revenues, since minors do not show custom ads.

“During the next few weeks, we will start offering machine learning to a small group of users in the United States to estimate their age, so that adolescents are dealt with as teenagers and adults as adults,” James Besser, Director of Products Department at YouTube, He writes in a post explaining the change. Beser adds that YouTube will “monitor” a close update before it is put up to other countries.