Meta says it is doing more to make sure young people are using the teen account features on its platforms.
According to Engadget, Meta will be testing artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S. to check whether a user is a teenager and move them to a teen account.
The social media giant is taking the steps to make sure that the age-detection tech is accurate, and there is a way to circumvent it and switch back to an adult account in case it makes a mistake.
Meta debuted the teen accounts on Instagram last fall, and recently brought them to Facebook and Messenger. These teen accounts have stricter privacy settings and parental controls. As an example, teen accounts are automatically set to private, and cannot message strangers.
So far, Meta says it has enrolled more than 54 million teens into the new teen accounts, and 97 per cent of the users (between 13 and 15) have chosen to keep them enabled. The company also added that over 90 per cent of the parents surveyed agreed that teen accounts keep their kids safe on Instagram.
As mentioned above, this test is currently happening in the U.S., but it will most likely come to Canada in the future.
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Source: Engadget
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