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Hello Hotel@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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 · 1 month 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.

    • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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      I don’t think big corp wants you account sharing. “Violates ToS” they say.

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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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      👋

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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!

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They will base it on the stuff you consume. Like 90% of people online lurk and don’t comment anything

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.

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    The highly sophisticated and clever AI has already brilliantly identified several underaged people who have youtube or associated gmail accounts that are older than the minimum age.

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      Nah, google accounts are a recent thing, no way can that be a thing… Can it?

      Oh hell I’m old…

      • ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        My Gmail account is old enough to buy drinks in a bar in the US (21)

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    I mean, I’ve heard of other sites using info like having a saved payment card in your own name, or the age of the account itself to know that the user is over 18 without needing ID.

    But this is Google, they want to flex their analytics and get as much additional info on everyone as they can.

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      This was literally the first thing that came to mind. So many people have android phones with cards already linked to google, paying for YouTube premium would do the same thing. But nope, Skynet is the better way to do it

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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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    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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      I’ve got a random living room account that’s used for Gen alpha brain rot, 80s R&B music videos, video essays, nature live streams, kids shows, horror stories, and documentaries. good luck.

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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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    • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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      Yep I’ve had my account since 2006. It’s old enough to vote.

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

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

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    I always knew my fascination with redstone would come back to bite me

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      My planned solution is to use a browser on a proxy that clears cookies after closing.

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    The have been thoroughly unable to guess my age for the last 18 years.

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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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