A screenshot from YouTube's blog that reads: "Back in February, we shared that we would soon introduce technology that would distinguish between younger viewers and adults to help provide the best and most age appropriate experiences and protections. 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. We’ll closely monitor this before we roll it out more widely. This technology will allow us to infer a user’s age and then use that signal, regardless of the birthday in the account, to deliver our age-appropriate product experiences and protections. We’ve used this approach in other markets for some time, where it is working well. We are now bringing it to the US, and as we make progress we’ll roll it out in other markets. We will closely monitor the user experience, and partner with Creators to ensure that the entire ecosystem benefits from this update."
Is YouTube seriously going to be implementing AI checks to determine if someone is "really" an adult? This is getting out of hand, given how fallible AI is, and the flimsiness of determining age based on guesswork and vibes. This needs to STOP. blog.youtube/news-and-eve...
#EndAIAgeChecks #youthlib
