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Associated Press
Barbara Ortutay And Matt O 'brien
Instagram tests new ways to check the age of people using services, such as face-scanning artificial intelligence tools. I am. Common friends will check their age or upload their ID.
But at least not yet, tools aren't used to keep kids away from popular photo and video sharing apps. Current tests only make sure someone is over 18 years old.
The use of face-scanning AI, especially for teenagers, sounded some alarms on Thursday, given the checked history of Instagram's parent Meta, which protects user privacy. Meta emphasized that the technology used to identify people's ages cannot recognize their identities, only their age. Once the age verification is complete, Meta says it, and the AI contractor Yoti, who has partnered to perform the scan, deletes the video.
Facebook and Instagram-owning Meta will start on Thursday when someone tries to edit their date of birth on Instagram from under 18 to over 18 in any of these ways. You need to use or to check your age.
Meta continues to face questions about the negative impact its products, especially Instagram, on teens.
As with any social media platform, your child must be technically 13 years of age or older to use Instagram. However, some people avoid this by lying about their age or by having their parents do so. On the other hand, teens between the ages of 13 and 17 have additional restrictions on their accounts until they are 18 years old. For example, an adult who is not connected cannot send a message.
The use of uploaded IDs is not new, but the other two options are. To use the face scan option, the user must upload a video selfie. The video is then sent to Yoti, a company that estimates age using people's facial features.
Instagram vendor London-based startup Yoti is a more powerful age verification technology in the UK and Europe to prevent children from accessing pornography. It is one of several biometric companies that are taking advantage of propulsion. Adult dating apps and other internet content — not to mention bottles of alcohol and other off-limits items in physical stores.
Yoti is a self-checkout counter face scan counter that has worked with several major UK supermarkets. We have also started checking the ages of new users of Yubo, a French video chat room app for young people.
Instagram is likely to fulfill its promise to remove the image of the applicant's face and not use it to recognize individual faces, but face scan normalization is Presenting other social concerns, senior Dollar Murray said he was a lecturer at the University of Essex Law School.
"There is a problem because there are many known prejudices in trying to identify by age, gender, etc.," Murray said. "You are essentially looking at stereotypes, but people are very different."
According to a 2019 survey by a US agency, facial recognition technology is race, It often functions unevenly based on gender and age. A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that the youngest and oldest people had higher error rates. An analysis of the results published by Yoti shows a similar trend, with slightly higher error rates for women and people with darker skin. The
Meta face scan movement is also a departure from what some technology competitors are doing. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a face analysis tool "aimed to infer" identity attributes such as emotional status and age and gender because of concerns about "stereotypes, discrimination, or unjustified denial of services." Announced that it will stop offering.
