Instagram already uses AI to identify adolescents who lie about their age and restrict their accounts

At the end of last year, the final of the objective social network Instagram. And here, the social network is very strict, because even if the age which seemed to be adult, it will restrict the account.

Meta has already offered data on the success of these accounts a few days ago when he announced them for Facebook: 97% of adolescents With ages between 13 and 15 years old, they already maintain active protections with these protected accounts. Which is a great sign of the importance of these protections.

Among all the restrictions, there are only two: with whom you can contact a teenager via the Instagram application and the type of content you can see. In fact, adolescents Children under the age of 16 They must request a parental permit to be able to touch one of these adjustments imposed on adolescents.

THE artificial intelligenceaccording to Techcrunchhas already been used by the social network for some time, but today's announcement confirms that it uses technology to ensure that adolescents who access Instagram do it via an adolescent account instead of an adult.

Already in the announcement last year on the deployment of this type of limited accounts, he warned that he would use artificial intelligence and other methods to find accounts that are really linked to adolescents who They lied about their date of birth When detecting publications on your birthdays or receiving other users' reports.

The announcement of its Instagram website is devoted to the protection of adolescents and the steps it does to guarantee that its technology is effective And that properly places adolescents in this type of limited accounts. In the same announcement, he quotes that, in case he could make a mistake, he gives the possibility of changing it parameters.

There is another way to identify the good age of adolescents and it is through the Notifications that start to send to parents This includes information on how they can manage the importance of providing the good age of their children.

In fact, Instagram recommends to your ad that parents take a moment To verify that the date of birth provided by their children is correct in order to protect them through adolescents. A vital age for the development of the person that social networks must protect with appropriate measures, although launched late enough, and not to expose them in situations which do not know how to manage properly and anonymity which generally occurs in many cases on the Internet.

Meta also took the opportunity to share a key figure in the deployment of this type of account: there are already at least 54 million adolescent accounts global. A figure that will increase as these restrictions are deployed in other countries and regions, and the use of Instagram can be limited until adolescents go to the majority of the majority.