{"id":142836,"date":"2025-08-13T16:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142836\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:36:18","slug":"users-can-submit-id-to-prove-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142836\/","title":{"rendered":"Users Can Submit ID to Prove Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAre you a kid watching YouTube<\/a>? The Google-owned platform is testing technology in the U.S. that can predict if you\u2019re under 18 \u2014 and automatically add certain restrictions to your account.<\/p>\n

\n\tYouTube says the move is aimed at providing better protections for younger users. On Wednesday, it began rolling out an \u201cage-estimation model\u201d in the U.S. that uses AI to determine if someone is under 18, regardless of the birthday they\u2019ve entered into their account.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf YouTube\u2019s AI-based system calculates that someone is likely less than 18 years old, it will place restrictions on and add other security measures to the account. According to YouTube, users will \u201chave the option to verify your age (through government ID, selfie or a credit card) if you believe our age estimation model is incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rollout of AI will initially cover a \u201csmall set of users\u201d in the U.S. to estimate their age, \u201cso that teens are treated as teens and adults as adults,\u201d James Beser, senior director of product management for YouTube\u2019s youth products, wrote in blog post. \u201cThis technology will allow us to infer a user\u2019s age and then use that signal, regardless of the birthday in the account, to deliver our age-appropriate product experiences and protections.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYouTube has used machine learning to estimate users\u2019 ages in other countries \u201cfor some time, where it is working well,\u201d according to Beser. In the U.S., YouTube will \u201cclosely monitor the user experience, and partner with Creators to ensure that the entire ecosystem benefits from this update,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to YouTube, the age estimation model uses a variety of signals such as YouTube activity and longevity of the account. If the system determines that you are under 18, you will be notified and \u201cstandard protections for teen accounts on YouTube will automatically be enabled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThose \u201cprotections\u201d (which are already applied for users who have told YouTube they\u2019re under 18) include: showing only non-personalized ads; enabling \u201cdigital wellbeing\u201d tools by default, including \u201ctake a break\u201d and bedtime reminders; showing reminders about privacy when uploading a video or commenting publicly; minimizing recommendations of videos with content that could be \u201cproblematic if viewed in repetition\u201d; and blocking access to videos that are age-restricted for only viewers 18 and older (determined by YouTube or verified by users).<\/p>\n

\n\tFor creators, YouTube will apply some additional protections including setting uploads as private by default for anyone and restricting the ability to earn from gifts on vertical live streams. While the video platform expects the changes to have \u201climited impact\u201d for most creators, YouTube noted that \u201csome creators may experience a shift in their audience categorized as teens (under 18). This may result in a decrease in ad revenue since we only serve non-personalized ads to those viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYouTube was one of the first platforms to offer experiences designed specifically for young people, and we\u2019re proud to again be at the forefront of introducing technology that allows us to deliver safety protections while preserving teen privacy,\u201d Beser wrote in the blog post. \u201cFamilies trust YouTube to provide a safe and enriching experience, and we\u2019ll continue to invest to protect their ability to explore safely online.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are you a kid watching YouTube? The Google-owned platform is testing technology in the U.S. that can predict…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,67,132,68,3894],"class_list":{"0":"post-142836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115022435850817161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}