Google is rolling out its age verification tool in Canada, and will use AI to check your account activity to make sure you're over 18.

Google is rolling out its age assurance technology that uses AI in Canada.

Essentially, the technology uses machine learning to interpret “a variety of signals already associated with the users account, such as the types of information a user has searched for or the categories of videos they’ve watched on YouTube,” in order to determine a user’s age.

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    I used to know a lot of developmentally disabled adults whose viewing habits would be indistinguishable from a ten-year-olds. Wonder how long before a disability challenge comes out; I don’t know what Canada’s disability laws are, but this would attract the interest of an enterprising lawyer under the US’s ADA.

    I also wonder if this wouldn’t just encourage kids to start mixing adult content into their feeds, which would kinda be a perverse outcome for a law designed to protect children.

    • UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com
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      7 hours ago

      The videos people watch for that are like

      very adult name and boring stuff tittle / politics stuff taxes idk

      Thumnail: “watch this video to trick age guessing (stuff)”

      Comments: stuff very grown up people say frfr

      i saw a video like that some years ago lol.