Instagram turning to AI to spot teens pretending to be adults

Instagram will test artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help find the accounts of teenagers posing as adults, parent company Meta announced Monday.

The technology, which will begin testing Monday, will “proactively” search for accounts it suspects could belong to teenagers, even if they enter a false birth date when creating the account.

“We’ve been using artificial intelligence to help determine age ranges for some time, but leveraging it in this way is a big change,” Meta wrote in a blog post Monday.

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