First he announced it YouTube And hours later it followed Google. The company will start using artificial intelligence To determine if its users They are of legal age or not ‘in the coming weeks‘. If so, the accounts will experience the restrictions that Google applies on YouTube and other services to protect children and adolescents from certain usual content and practices on the Internet.
Will begin to do it in USA with a small group of users and, after evaluating the results, will extend it to the rest; Subsequently, a ‘Other markets‘. The company, which adds to the growing tendency of the Compulsory age verification To access products and services on the Internet, he says in a publication on the YouTube blog that does it ‘so that adolescents are treated as teenagers and adults as adults’.
How to use the AI to determine your age
YouTube has been somewhat longer than Google in details about how the Automatic learning To estimate the user’s age. The system tracks Several signals of the account to determine if its owner is above or below the age of majority. These include the Searches he performs on YouTubethe videos you see and the Antiquity of the account.
In the event that the AI determines that it corresponds to a minor, it will apply the usual limitations In these cases. The Video blocking with age restrictionthe advertising will not be personalizedthey will be shown Notifications inciting to use the platform less and the Video recommendations will avoid sensitive topicsas those related to personal image.
Google, meanwhile, expands those signs to the information that the user has soughtin general, and it states that this approach ‘It does not imply collecting additional data or sharing the user’s granular information with all applications and websites’.
Google accounts that are classified as minors, in addition to the restrictions commented on YouTube, will see how Discharge the Timeline on Google Maps, They will lose access to adult applications on Google Play and your data will not be used to customize ads In no company product.
Users will be Email notified of the result of age check. In case of a Incorrect identificationthe affected may contribute an official identification documenttake one Selfi or enter the data of a credit card To demonstrate your age to Google.