Instagram tests the use of AI for the signal of minor users who hide or lie at their age. These measures are part of the new restrictions on more efficient protection of adolescents on the Internet, Mother Company Meta reports on Monday.
Now the platform will be “actively” suspiciously suspected accounts of adolescents belonging to minor users, even if they inserted a false date of birth when signing.
The application has already used it earlier to calculate the age of its users in the past, but a new approach is a more “aggressive” strategy.
The goal says that it encourages your AI system to detect signals, such as the activity of the account, profile details and interaction with content, to signal who, perhaps, introduced your age.
If Instagram determines that the user lied about his actual age, the account will again be classified in the category of adolescents. This implies more stringent definitions of confidentiality and security.
By definition, teenage accounts are private. Messages are limited by people whom the user already follows or with whom he is already turned on. The contents, who believed that “sensitive”, such as violent videos or publications that contribute to aesthetic procedures, will now be limited, according to the goal.
Teenagers will receive notifications of time limit after 60 minutes of use. The “suspension mode” will be activated, which disconnects notifications and sends automatic answers to direct messages from 22H00 to 7H00.
Instagram will also begin to send notifications to parents who will encourage conversations with adolescents about the importance of providing accurate information about the age online, according to the goal.
The update occurs at a time when technological companies are faced with a big analysis on the influence of social networks on the mental health of young people. Several US states are also advancing with new legislation requiring age on social networks, although many of these efforts have encountered legal problems.
The goal and other technological companies claim that “application stores” should be liable for checking the age of users, and not individual platforms.