


Instagram is beginning to test the use of artificial intelligence to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta Platforms said Monday.
Meta has been using AI to determine people’s ages for some time, the company said, but photo and video-sharing app will now “proactively” look for accounts it suspects belong to teens even if they entered an inaccurate birthdate when they joined.
If it is determined that a user is misrepresenting their age, the account will automatically become a teen account, which is more restricted than an adult’s.
Meta says it trains its AI to look for signals, such as the type of content the account interacts with, profile information and when the account was created, to determine the owner’s age. — Associated Press