Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “When it detects a user may be under 18, Google will notify them that it has changed some of their settings and will offer information about how users can verify their age with a selfie, credit card, or government ID.”

  Selfies are useless as proof for young adults and people with a young face. No algorithm can tell a 17.11 yo from a 18 yo so it will flag every single one of them.

  This is a way to normalize handing over your details for the next generations

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  • nick@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sure they will do loveless detection.

    I work in IDV and we have tons of ways to determine if a picture is fake.

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• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But they already did that to target ads. Someone found a way to repackage an existing feature for their performance review?

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• ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s weird, the computer says everyone was born January 1, 1900.

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  • chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Speak for yourself. Here in the NULL island, we’re all born on January 1st, 1970.

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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I'd say it's bound to be more difficult for Google, as every Youtube comment sounds like being made by an 8 yo. Whereas Meta can just tell. You're still on Facebook? Probably 50+... And on WhatsApp, the amount of boomer memes re-posted would be an immediate tell...

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s gonna think I am a 7 year old girl with the shit I search for and keep on my google cloud. 😭

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• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Time to flood their AI with a ton of skibidi toilet and ‘what the sigma’ memes, so it confuses everyone for eight year olds.

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• doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “When it detects a user may be under 18, Google will notify them that it has changed some of their settings and will offer information about how users can verify their age with a selfie, credit card, or government ID.”

  This will definitely not be used to get a massive amount of face and ID data from users who get misclassified as underage due to “glitches” and suddenly locked out from their Gmail accounts or Android phones. Nope, no sirree, that will never happen at all!

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This just sounds like an excuse to get more training data. Like those companies that use AI to guess someone’s age based on a photo while their website is covered in AI images.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its going to be interesting to see how I can degoogle my phone

  I’ve already stopped using search nearly a decade ago, I only still had a storage subscription (and with that, YouTube premium) which I just now stopped.

  The only service I’m still interested in is YouTube because of the content, the rest can die in a fire, I’m going full self hosting

  YouTube has revance, right?

  What’s the best non Google OS for a phone? I have a OnePlus 12

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  • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    GrapheneOS.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah Google, wait, wait, I’m leaving already, I’ve already stopped my storage subscription, but gimme a second pleaase, stop pushing me away that hard!

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Laughable!

  I have the same Google account for >18 years, but they still don’t get it.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good luck with that

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• fraize@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, with the number of hair-replacement and teeth-implant adverts I’ve been seeing lately, I feel like they figured it out a long time ago.

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