It’s an option when users try edit their birthdate to make them older
You can actually try Yoti’s system on the web and see its accuracy rates below. The numbers show, in years, the error rate of Yoti’s age estimations for different age ranges, skin tones, and genders.
Yoti’s data shows its technology performs slightly worse on female subjects and faces with darker skin tones.shows that Yoti’s system is less accurate for female faces and people with darker skin, and that for under-24s its estimates can be off by up to 2.5 years. However, if the tool is making a broad guess about a user’s age, its accuracy improves.found that it was 98.89 percent reliable at guessing whether or not people aged 18 were over or under 25.
It’s not clear how these figures will translate for Instagram’s use case, or whether the system is really secure enough for this purpose. For example, we were able to fool Yoti’s web demo just by holding up photos in front of our webcam . Underage users might also enlist the help of an older friend to pass the test.
This isn’t the only AI-powered tool Instagram uses to try and estimate users’ ages, either. Since 2019 the company has been using automated systems to search for underage users. These tools scan information like users’ birthday posts and the age of their friendship groups. So, for example, if a user claims to be 20 but posts about celebrating their 17th birthday, their account will be flagged and they may have to verify their age.
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