A few days after Meta announced using public content from European users to train its artificial intelligence, after a suspension last year, the company is showing its interest in AI on another subject...
This Monday, April 21, Meta published an announcement to discuss the use of AI to combat minors' use of social media. While the company plans to democratize teens' use of social media, it also wants to distinguish them from adult profiles.
This update follows a previous announcement, last September, where Instagram has already announced that it is setting up accounts for teenagers.
Meta strengthens controls over underage users
Although a date of birth is required when opening an account on Facebook or Instagram, some teenagers sometimes use a false date of birth. Faced with the increase in content aimed more at an adult audience, Meta has long been accused of not sufficiently moderating the published content.
Thanks to Using artificial intelligence, Meta announces that it can identify teenagers by specific behaviors and restrict access to minors identified as such.
Instagram strengthens controls on teenagers
Automatic content restrictions
With the use of artificial intelligence to detect accounts For minors, Instagram guarantees that the content accessible on its social network will be limited, as will certain features.
Furthermore, adolescents under 16 will not be able to modify these settings alone, and will have to ask a parent for permission to override these limitations. To achieve this, Meta should develop new features accessible to parents, allowing them to manage their children's accounts.
The strengthening of these controls via artificial intelligence is not trivial, and comes only a few months after the lifting of moderation on Meta's social networks. On the other hand, with Instagram and Facebook losing ground among younger users, this could be the start of the offensive for Meta...
The settings can be changed directly in the application
A boost to AI
If Instagram was already using artificial intelligence to control its users' accounts, as confirmed to TechCrunch, this new announcement is no coincidence...
Indeed, faced with very active competitors like OpenAI or Google Gemini in the field of AI, Meta intends to make a place for itself in this area. By multiplying announcements around AI, Mark Zuckerberg's company is slowly preparing to compete directly with the biggest with Meta AI...
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