YouTube will start testing a new age-conclusion system in the US on Wednesday, depending on artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors, which they are looking at.
Initially the tests will only affect a piece of YouTube audiences in the US, but it will probably become more wider if the system works to estimate the audience as it does in other parts of the world. The system will only work when the audience is logged into their accounts, and it will assess its age regardless of the date of birth, which the user may have entered when signed up.
If the system gives flags to a log-in viewer as under 18, YouTube will impose normal control and restrictions that the site is already a way to prevent minors from watching videos and to prevent the attachment to other behavior that was considered inappropriate for that age.
Safety measures include Riminder, privacy warnings and prohibition on video recommendations to take a break from the screen. YouTube, which has been owned by Google for almost 20 years, if an audience is less than 18, does not even show advertising to individual taste.
If the system incorrectly called an audience as a minor, the mistake can be corrected by showing youtube identity cards, credit cards or selfies issued by the government.
“YouTube was one of the first platforms to offer experiences designed specifically for young people, and we are proud again that we are at the forefront of starting the technology again, which allows us to protect teenage privacy,” James Besar, Director of Product Management, Director, Written in a blog post About the age of age.
People will still be able to watch YouTube videos without logging into an account, but watching in this way has an automatic block trigger on some material without age proof.
Political pressure is building on websites, doing a better job of doing a better job of verification of age to mold children from improper content since the end of June, when the US Supreme Court upheld the Texas law, which aims to prevent minors from seeing pornography online.
While some services, such as YouTube, are pushing their efforts to verify the age of users, others have argued that the responsibility should fall on the two main smartphone app stores being run by Apple and Google mainly – a situation that has been opposed by those two technology powerhouses.
Some digital rights groups, such as Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for Democracy and Technology have expressed concern that age verification can violate personal privacy and first amendment on free speech can violate security.