'This is not facial recognition' — Meta wants to scan kids' height and bone structure to verify…
- New AI tools for verifying ages are being rolled out by Meta
- Instagram and Facebook is for users aged 13+
- A "visual analysis" will weigh up height and bone structure
Age verification for sites, apps, and devices is fast becoming the norm as regulators look to protect children from potentially harmful content — including content on social media. Now Meta has announced new "age assurance measures" for teen users and predictably, they are powered by AI.
Specifically, the system will use contextual clues associated with a profile (such as mentions of birthdays or school grades) together with a "visual analysis" to help figure out how old a user is.
"We want to be clear: this is not facial recognition," says Meta. "Our AI looks at general themes and visual cues, for example height or bone structure, to estimate someone's general age; it does not identify the specific person...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to techradar.com. To see the full text click HERE
