YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon — here's what's going to change

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• jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Disabling personalized advertising
  • Turning on digital wellbeing tools
  • Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content

  Couldn't they just make this default for everyone? No need to distinguish between teens and adults for that.
  YouTube says it plans

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Turning on digital wellbeing tools

    Not that though, fuck that shit.

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  • al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, let Google and YouTube raise your children what could go wrong.

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i mean, that’s what raised me

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Both my YouTube and google accounts are over 20 years old. I don’t think I’ll have a problem, but you never know…

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know they won’t take that into account.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My main YouTube I had since 2006, but I got new email and it’s on 6 months old. I do pay for Premium and the shit I subscribe to and watch is vanlifers and cooking shows, along with music video’s. Clearly I am an adult. I also about start an YouTube show. They will see I am an old man lol.

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, honestly this is one of the better uses for machine learning. Not that this age checking is a good thing but if you’re going to do it on a mass scale then this seems like the right approach. I imagine that especially for a relatively heavy user this is going to be extremely accurate and far better than the alternative of providing a selfie let alone picture of an ID.

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