You must officially be at least 13 years old to have an Instagram account. However, the platform started asking people to report their age when signing up for Instagram after 2019. It has since made it a necessity. Instagram, which says that knowing people’s age allows them to offer experiences suitable for different age groups, especially young people, is now in a new study. If this work is successful, Instagram will have a guarantor requirement.
“VIDEO SELFIE” AND “SOCIAL PROOF” TO INSTAGRAM
Reportedly, Instagram is testing new ways for users to verify their age, including an artificial intelligence tool that predicts how old you are by simply scanning your face. The company announced that it is trying new methods called “video selfie” and “social proof” to be able to verify age in addition to identity verification.
YOUR FOLLOWERS WILL GUARANTEE YOU
The first method, social proof, actually asks you to find followers to vouch for you to verify your age. In this method, Instagram will ask the user’s three common followers to confirm how old they are. Joint followers who must be over 18 will have three days to respond to Instagram’s request. But as a guess, some users might not be too happy with convincing common followers to verify their age.
In the second method, the video selfie method, artificial intelligence will come into play. Users will take a video selfie and post it to Instagram to verify their age. On Instagram, he will share this video with the company Yoti, which uses machine learning to guess someone’s age and guess your age. Getting the age estimate, Meta and Yoti will then delete the image. However, due to privacy concerns, this method does not seem to be very pleasing to some users.
Instagram, under the umbrella of Meta, has started testing the features in the USA.