Instagram using AI to detect Canadian teens who signed up for adult accounts

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Instagram has started testing an AI model that can help identify whether an adult account was created by a teenager. Meta says it’s trained the AI based on such data as when the accounts were created and interactions they’ve had with other profiles and content on the app. These limits are automatically imposed on teen accounts, and any desired changes can be made once a parent sets up supervision. Instagram first started placing Canadian teens into these accounts last year. We also saw last week at Meta Connect how AI tech can go wrong with the much-publicized failure of a live Meta AI demo between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a content creator.