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Hello Hotel@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days ago

YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.

www.cnn.com

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YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.

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Hello Hotel@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days ago
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YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. If it’s wrong, you’ll have to prove it | CNN Business
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YouTube will begin guessing users’ ages using artificial intelligence on Wednesday, as part of an effort to prevent kids from accessing inappropriate content online.
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  • Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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    Accounts used by multiple people enter the room.

    By kids often use my account on our shared family TV. We have adults in 30s/40s, early teens, and toddlers all using YouTube for different things.

    This is a stupid idea.

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      I don’t think big corp wants you account sharing. “Violates ToS” they say.

      • Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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        I don’t want ScreamingMinecraftYoutuber67 on my watch history, and yet, it’ll be there tomorrow morning.

        /s

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        I don’t want account sharing either, except theres things like Google homes where you can’t sign in with more than one account. People sharing the same account in a TV aren’t trying to, it’s just the natural way they use it.

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    • neclimdul@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      👋

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    I’ve never made a single comment or video post so good luck.

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      I watch a lot of gun videos on YouTube so they will probably assume I’m in high school.

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        or you’re about to go to a high school very soon!

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          This comment has me in critical condition.

      • kaitco@lemmy.world
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        Oof!

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  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    How long before a certain orange moron starts complaining that it keeps thinking he’s 13 for some reason?

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    I am almost 70 and my wife and have a great time confusing the AI targeted ads. I get tampon ads she gets men’s diaper ads. We never know what we are going to get since we are always feeding misinformation into our phones.

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    What if you just play a bunch of home repair videos on the background? 🤔

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    I think my account is around 18 years old so let’s see what the AI thinks.

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      Yep I’ve had my account since 2006. It’s old enough to vote.

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      The system relies on signals such as the types of videos a user searches for and watches, and how long their account has been active, to determine whether they are under the age of 18.

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    I watch plenty of penguinz0, This Old House, Smosh, and lawn care videos. Can’t wait to find out what YouTube makes of that.

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    Start peppering your responses with archaic terms and slang… Confuse the hell out of them

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    The system relies on signals such as the types of videos a user searches for and watches, and how long their account has been active, to determine whether they are under the age of 18.

    That’s not actually AI is it ?

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    I’m betting that it’s so “intelligent” that will guess underage even if the Google account was opened in 2004

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    Is this why Google sent me an email saying they changed my settings and I can scan in my ID if I want to change them back?

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    They wouldn’t restrict access to information based on your perceived age, would they?

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    They already do this. There was a way to check and there may still be. When I checked like 10 years ago it was wrong about everything. Age, hobbies, everything

    So good luck yt I guess

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      https://myadcenter.google.com/controls

      It basically nailed everything about me :/

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