Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools

Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by runawaybottle on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:43AM (#28669959)

Shouldn’t their machine learning models be able to detect who looks like a kid and provide age appropriate content on Insta? If they are not doing that already, Insta is basically recommending adult content to kids.

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by retrac on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:10AM (#28670201)

Young children, sure. But teenagers? I had a full beard by 16. The only reliable way we've ensured not to sell alcohol to kids is to verify ID. (And it's not terribly reliable anyway.)

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by KaiserPro on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:48AM (#28670010)

its not very accurate, easy to fool and requires facebook to build an archive of pictures of children to build models against....

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by sodality2 on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:51AM (#28670052)

If my account got locked because Instagram thought I was a child (and I wasn't) I think I'd be pretty upset.

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by jon-wood on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:53AM (#28670063)

I'd take it as a complement, but I think that's a thing that comes with age.

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by X6S1x6Okd1st on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:59AM (#28670118)

As someone who has a genetic condition where I look younger than I am I've come to believe they if someone has to explain that it's a compliment they should really do more second guessing

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by ClumsyPilot on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:42AM (#28670538)

They do claim to know your age to target ads, so what gives? Either it doesnt work or they don't care

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by brettermeier on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:47AM (#28669999)

Oh some people would have problems with that, not every adult looks like one and stuff.

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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by pj1115 on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:31AM (#28670419)

As I get closer to thirty years old, the idea of a person or machine asking for a grown-up to verify my identity gives me feelings that are more mixed than I expected.

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