Australia To Ban Under-16s From YouTube
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YouTube, AI and age estimation
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YouTube will start using machine learning to determine whether viewers should be on a teen account. The company said it plans to start using this AI application on a subset of US users in the coming weeks for a trial before rolling it out to the rest of the market.
YouTube videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds (words like “fuck”) are now eligible for full monetization, according to a video from Conor, YouTube’s head of monetization policy experience. Previously, these kinds of videos were only eligible for “limited ad revenue.”
Australia’s most popular social media platform could bring new AI-based age estimation tools here by December, after the government confirmed Australia’s 5.1 million children under 16 will be banned from YouTube as the government restricts access to harmful content.
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