Meta uses AI technology to search for children who are on their age on Instagram to get around the guarantees, the company announced on Monday. When Meta finds an account he suspects belongs to a teenager, the platform will enroll them in a restricted teenager account, even if the account lists an adult birthday.
Teen Accounts, which was launched on Instagram last year, registered with young users in an application experience with integrated protections. The guarantees are automatically applied to adolescents and will limit who can contact a teenager on the application and restrict the type of content that the account holder can display. Teenagers under the age of 16 need their parents’ permission to modify one of these contexts.
Instagram uses AI to determine age for some time, but now the social network confirms that it uses technology to ensure that adolescents access Instagram via an adolescent account rather than an adult account.
The company told Techcrunch last year that it had planned to do so, and noted that some of the ways he would find accounts belonging to adolescents who have entered a false anniversary for adults is to detect happy birthday articles and receive reports from other users.
Instagram says that it takes measures to ensure that its technology is correct and that it places adolescents correctly in adolescent accounts. However, in case the company makes a mistake, it gives people the opportunity to modify their parameters.
“The digital world continues to evolve and we must evolve with it,” wrote the company in its blog article. “This is why it is important that we are working with parents to ensure that as many adolescents as possible has the protective parameters that come with adolescent accounts.”
Instagram has also announced that he was going to start sending notifications to parents who include information about how they can discuss the importance of providing the right online age with their teenagers. The platform notes that one of the most important ways that parents can ensure that their adolescents are in protected accounts is to check whether their account lists their correct anniversary.
Today’s announcement comes two weeks after Meta introduced adolescent accounts on Facebook and Messenger.
Meta says he has scored at least 54 million adolescents in adolescent accounts worldwide so far, and that 97% of teenagers aged 13 to 15 have remained in these protected accounts.
