St. Louis, MO (KMOX) - Instagram is testing the use of artificial intelligence to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app. The big question is how would AI know if kids are lying about their age? "You know, I'm curious about that myself," says CBS Tech Contributor Ian Sherr speaking on KMOX's Total Information AM.
"So, the way that Facebook says it works is that they are essentially able to identify signals," says Sherr, "the ways that people communicate, the web stuff they follow, the way that they use the app that are telltale signs of a younger person using the app."
Yet he also points out, the announcement comes in the middle of an antitrust trial for Facebook. "They are under extreme pressure from the US government over not just Instagram, but also, you know, all of the ways that they've been behaving over the last decade."
Age verification has been a sticking point for advocacy groups who want big tech to police the access young people have to potentially dangerous online content.
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