How Meta wants to profile 13-year-olds on Insta, Facebook – DW.com

Shared any birthday photos on social media recently? There had better be enough candles on that cake, otherwise your account could be blocked. Meta, the tech company behind Facebook and Instagram, plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to find and remove the profiles of users under the age of 13 years. Thirteen is the minimum age for a person to create an account on the social media platforms. “We want young people to have safe, positive experiences online,” started a press release from Meta in early May when it announced the move.  As part of that effort, the company said, it was always looking for ways to find accounts held by users who should not be on the platforms yet — but who signed up with a false birth date to make them seem old enough. The company will be “using AI technology to analyze entire profiles for contextual clues — such as birthday celebrations or mentions of school grades — to determine if an account likely belongs to someone underage,” the press release stated. “We look for these signals across various formats, like posts, comments, bios, and captions.” Meta’s plans to use its own AI — called “Meta AI” — to root out under-13s was released a few days after the European Commission
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