The finish uses AI technology to search for children who are lying about his age on Instagram to bypass security, company announced on Monday. When the meta finds the account he suspects, he belongs to a teenager, the platform saves them to a limited account for teenagers, even if the account contains a birthday list for adults.
Teen accounts that started on Instagram last year save young users into an application with built -in protection. Security is automatically used for teenagers and limit who can contact the teenager in the application and limit the type of content that the account holder can display. Teens under 16 years of age need parents' consent to change any of these settings.
Instagram uses artificial intelligence to determine the age for a long time, but now the social network confirms that it uses this technology to make sure that teenagers gain access to Instagram via teen account account, not from an adult.
The company told Techcrunch last year that it planned to do it, and noticed that some of the ways in which you can find accounts belonging to teenagers who have entered a false birthday for adults, are detecting posts on birthday and receiving reports from other users.
Instagram says that he takes steps to ensure the accuracy of technology and correctly places teenagers on the accounts for teenagers. However, if the company makes a mistake, this gives people the opportunity to change their settings.
“The digital world is still developing and we have to develop with it,” wrote the company in its blog post. “That is why it is important that we cooperate with parents to make sure that as many teenagers as possible have protective settings related to teen accounts.”
Instagram also announced that it will start sending notifications to parents that contain information on how they can discuss the importance of ensuring the correct age of online with teenagers. The platform notes that one of the most important ways in which parents can make sure that their teenagers are protected accounts is to check whether their account contains their proper birthday.
Today's advertisement appears two weeks after Meta introduced teen accounts on Facebook and Messenger.
The finish line claims that so far he has enrolled at least 54 million teenagers for teen accounts and that 97% of teenagers aged 13-15 remained on these protected accounts.
