{"id":45795,"date":"2025-07-29T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45795\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:41:09","slug":"youtube-will-identify-and-restrict-minors-accounts-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45795\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube will identify and restrict minors\u2019 accounts with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">YouTube will soon begin using AI-powered age estimation technology to figure out which users are under the age of 18. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/356191968?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starting August 13th<\/a>, YouTube will detect underage users in the US based on their activity and the age of their account, allowing the platform to automatically apply restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">These accounts will get the same protections YouTube already offers to users who identify themselves as under 18, including a block on age-restricted videos, non-personalized ads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/11\/17346122\/youtube-take-a-break-notifications-google-digital-wellbeing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ctake a break\u201d notifications<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/2\/23942277\/youtube-teenager-mental-health-body-image-bullying-meta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">limit on repeated video recommendations<\/a> about sensitive topics, such as body image. The platform will also automatically turn on reminders about privacy when users upload a video or leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">YouTube will notify users if it determines they are under 18, but if the platform gets it wrong, users can verify their age by uploading a government ID, taking a selfie, or entering a credit card. The platform notes that some creators may \u201cexperience a shift in their audience categorized as teens,\u201d potentially resulting in less ad revenue, since minors aren\u2019t shown personalized ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cOver the next few weeks, we\u2019ll begin to roll out machine learning to a small set of users in the US to estimate their age, so that teens are treated as teens and adults as adults,\u201d James Beser, YouTube\u2019s director of product management, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/extending-our-built-in-protections-to-more-teens-on-youtube\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes in a post explaining the change<\/a>. Beser adds that YouTube will \u201cclosely monitor\u201d the update before rolling it out to other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube will soon begin using AI-powered age estimation technology to figure out which users are under the age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,17511,3,1343,7382,172,74,9280],"class_list":["post-45795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-creators","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-streaming","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}