YouTube on Tuesday announced that it plans to roll out a new age-aged technology that would identify users under the age of 18. The aim of the new facility is to protect the young teenager from harmful materials, the company says.
Powered by Artificial Intelligence, this tool will be able to assess a person’s age, depending on the types of videos they watched, the categories of videos, and how long the person’s account is – regardless of the birthday associated with it, James Besar, Director of Product Management in YouTube, said in statement On the blog of the platform.
If the technology identifies a person under the age of 18, it will take additional steps to regulate their content by disabled individual advertisement and limiting repeated ideas of some types of materials with other things. If Youtube wrongly determines the age of someone, the user can upload a form of identity to fix the error.
YouTube said in a blog post, “We will only allow users who have been estimated or verified to see age-stuffed content.”
Google, which is the original company of YouTube, did not respond to the CBS Manivatch’s request for immediate comments.
According to a recent peu surveyYouTube is the most popular social media app among teenagers. Ninety percent of the teenagers aged 13 to 17 said that they used YouTube last year, compared to 63% who said they used Tikokok.
YouTube CEO Neil Mohan initially announced the technique of aging age-address februaryThe new tool creates on other security facilities like Supervised accounts Which allow parents to monitor their children’s Youtube activity more closely.
YouTube has taken advantage of AI to identify and remove AI, which he considers harmful, although President Trump has taken over for his second term in January, social media platforms have shifted their policy to emphasize “freedom of expression” on security, New York Times to emphasize “freedom of expression” on security. Informed,
YouTube says it will test the device between a small set of US users in the coming weeks, before it rolls out the technique for the broader audience. The equipment is already being used successfully in other markets, the company explains on its blog, but does not specify where.
