You Tube age verification powered by A.I. that will crawl through your watch history to guess your age

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Yep you read that right, and if it guesses wrong you’ll have to prove to Google it has guessed wrong. I mean what could possibly go wrong.

YouTube's age verification system estimates user ages by interpreting a "variety of signals," YouTube's announcement said, including "the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account."

If a user is estimated to be under 18, YouTube restricts the account by disabling personalized ads, turning on digital wellbeing tools to prevent young users from being bombarded with harmful content, and adding other safeguards, like limiting repetitive views of certain types of content. To lift these restrictions, YouTube requires users to share either a government ID, a credit card, or a selfie to authenticate their actual ages.

Privacy experts previously told Ars that YouTube's AI age checks are concerning. YouTube does not specify how any of the data received from users incorrectly labeled as teens will be used or how long it will be stored. A YouTube spokesperson only told Ars that the company "does not retain data from" a user's "ID or Payment Card for the purposes of advertising."
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Some commenters with autism suggested that they may be specifically targeted by the AI system since their special interests may be perceived by AI as "childish." Others identified as parents wondering how the AI system might interpret moments when their child uses a shared account.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...ainst-ai-spying-that-could-expose-identities/
 
Stuff to avoid watching on the same account lest the TubeAI classify you as a googoo gaagaa viewer(not exhaustive):
Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Doraemon, Pokémon, Cocomelon, Baby Shark, ChuChu TV, Lego, Hot Wheels unboxing, Minecraft, Robolox, Teenage tiktokers, anyone <18 yr doing pranks and stuff, school related skits, etc
 
Oh cool, junk I have no interest in anywhos. I don't trust the AI to not be confidently incorrect anyway because that is literally what this kind of AI is for.
 
Erm... I like "My Little Pony" G4 cartoon; so the fact that I watch a lot of pony video would make me a child?

FighterJock said:
Looks like AI is gradually taking over the Internet.
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No. Hypocritical pietism and cynical manipulation ("But it's for the CHILDREN!!!") is taking over the society. AI is only a tool without any malice of its own.
 
This news story might give pause to anyone who thinks handing their photo ID to Google/YouTube is a good idea

Online scams and cyberattacks are becoming more common every year. Hackers are finding new ways to trick people, and sometimes even the biggest companies in the world are caught off guard.

The latest case involves Google, which confirmed that criminals managed to get access to data stored on a Salesforce platform earlier this summer.
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2.5 Billion Emails at Risk After Google Database Breach
 
@publiusr You should try to get a job at the government.
They require you to list ALL of your social media accounts.
They will be monitoring your internet usage for months if you state you don't have a social media account.

The UK has a similar system where you have to use your face to check if you are old enough to watch certain.... content..
Also done with an AI. Pretty easy to circumvent too. There are already videos being posted about people using games to get around it.
 
BAROBA said:
@publiusr You should try to get a job at the government.
They require you to list ALL of your social media accounts.
They will be monitoring your internet usage for months if you state you don't have a social media account.
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Quite dependent on what country you are in (and what their privacy and security laws are).
 
Hey YouTube. You've been bombarding everyone left and right with should I say non age appropriate adds, and doing absolutely nothing about bots advertising adult services in the comment section under videos. Yet you want our identification for the sake of "protecting the children". How does that work?
 
The internet can be a trap…in the past—if somebody went to a garage sale and bought a box of VHS tapes that had an old Traci Lords video (underage at time of filming) that person becomes a felon. More likely to happen by accident now…as opposed to folks squinting at old distorted Showtime signals.
 
Online age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13. To proponents, they're a tool to keep children away from adult websites and other material that might be harmful to them.

But opponents see a worrisome trend toward a less secure, less private and less free internet, where people can be denied access not just to pornography but news, health information and the ability to speak openly and anonymously.
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Nonetheless, a growing number of tech companies are implementing verification systems to comply with regulations or ward off criticism that they are not protecting children. This includes Google, which recently started testing a new age-verification system for YouTube that relies on AI to differentiate between adults and minors based on their watch histories.

Instagram is testing a similar AI system to determine if kids are lying about their ages. Roblox, which was sued by the Louisiana attorney general on claims it doesn't do enough to protect children from predators, requires users who want to access certain games rated for those over 17 to submit a photo ID and undergo a face scan for verification. Roblox has also recently begun requiring age verification for teens who want to chat more freely on platform.
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Face scans that promise to estimate a person’s age may address some of the concerns around IDs, but they can be unreliable. Can AI accurately tell, for instance, if someone is 17.5 or just turned 18?

“Sometimes it’s less accurate for women or it’s less accurate for certain racial or ethnic groups or for certain physical characteristics that then may mean that those people have to go through additional privacy invasive screenings to prove that they are of a certain age,” Huddleston said.
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Case in point: the recent data breaches at Tea, an app for women to anonymously warn each other about the men they date, speak to some of these concerns. The app requires women who sign up to upload an ID or undergo a scan to prove that they are women. Tea wasn't supposed to keep the files but it did, and stored them in a way that allowed hackers to not only access the images, but also their private messages.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ier-foundation-anthony-albanese-b2815674.html
 
Flyaway said:
Relevant to this thread first they brought in age verification next they came for your video games.

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...Collective Shout has been lambasted by conservatives as cynical astroturfing. Never, ever heard a conservative support that NGO. The comment section is... unbelievably delusional. Nobody on the right supports the Visa/Mastercard cartel. Most young conservatives see all this as part of a larger unified force. They are clearly very cynically pushing ye olde "think of the children" nonsense in order to steer perceptions. They wish to control context and hrottle down any growing exposure of corruption and any percieved organic populist ideas and movements.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=32AKh16h-OKgWOE6&v=C31XYgr8gp0&feature=youtu.be
 
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Dreamwidth announced yesterday they'd be blocking anyone geolocated in Mississippi from September 1st because Mississippi's demands for age verification would be impossible for them to implement, and the penalties for failing ($10k per visit) impossible to bear. There's an ongoing court case they've been told by one of the Supremes (Kavanaugh) they're likely to win, but a stay on the Mississippi law was removed.
 
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