by Instagram begins with the use of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to determine whether children are above their age groups in the app, the parent company Meta platforms announced on Monday.
Meta uses KI to determine the age groups for some time, the company said, but the photo and video sharing app is now “proactively” looking for accounts that suspect that they belong to teenagers, even if they have entered an inaccurate date of birth when registering.
If it is determined that a user portrays his age incorrectly, the account automatically becomes a teenager account that has more restrictions than an account for adults.
Young people are private by default. Private messages are limited so that teenagers can only get them from people who follow or are already connected.
“Sensitive content”, such as videos of people who fight or cosmetic interventions, will be limited, said Meta.
Young people also receive notifications if they are on Instagram for more than 60 minutes, and a “sleep mode” is activated, which switches off notifications and sends automatic replies from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. to direct messages.
Meta has announced that it would train his AI to search for signals such as the content -type -type, with which the account interacts, profil information and when creating the account to determine the age of the owner.
The increased measures arise when social media companies are exposed to an increased examination of how their platform affects mental health and the well -being of younger users.
A growing number of US states also try to adopt the laws on age review even though they have been brought to court.
META and other social media companies support responsibility in app stores to verify age because they are criticized that they are not doing enough to make their products for children safely-or to check whether nobody is using them under 13 years.
Instagram will also send notifications to parents “with information about how to have conversations with their teenagers online about the importance of the right age,” said the company.
