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Instagram is testing new methods for age verification. Among these new methods is face scanning with the help of artificial intelligence. The company therefore aims to ensure that its new users are at least 13 years old.
Another age verification method that Instagram is testing can be described as “social bail.” Instagram asks the contact’s three followers to verify the person’s age. Users to be verified must be over 18 and respond to the request within three days. You can still verify the age with a photo of the ID card.
In the method, which is assisted by artificial intelligence, users record a “selfie video” and this video is shared by Instagram with a company called Yoti. In the information provided by Yoti it is emphasized that no information other than visual information is shared with the company.
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Instagram’s statement on the subject reads: “Yoti’s technology estimates your age based on your facial features and shares this estimate with us. After the process, your image is deleted from Meta and Yoti’s servers. The technology he can only guess your age, not your identity.
Yoti’s age recognition technology clicking here You can try. It is worth noting that the system estimates my age to be 4 to 8 years older.
Instagram aims to prevent people under the age of 18 from accessing Facebook Dating’s matchmaking platform, with the help of age-recognition artificial intelligence. The objectives also include preventing adults from sending text messages to minors and regulating the display of advertisements.
