{"id":955356,"date":"2025-08-16T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955356"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:01:47","slug":"youtube-testing-ai-age-verification-feature-concerns-users-company-says-google-uses-the-worlds-most-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/16\/youtube-testing-ai-age-verification-feature-concerns-users-company-says-google-uses-the-worlds-most-advanced\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube testing AI age verification feature \u2018concerns\u2019 users; company says: Google uses the world\u2019s most advanced\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has an AI tool that can guess users&#8217; ages. If someone can\u2019t prove it, they will have to verify their identity with a government ID or credit card. The tool was recently tested with a limited number of US users to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content, regardless of the birthdate they provided when signing up. If the AI identifies a user as a minor, the platform&#8217;s existing teen safety measures will automatically be applied to their account. Users who are incorrectly flagged as minors will be prompted to upload a government ID, a credit card, or a selfie to prove their age. However, this verification has raised concerns among some users and privacy experts about the collection of sensitive personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has an AI tool that can guess users&#8217; ages. If someone can\u2019t prove it, they will have to verify their identity with a government ID or credit card. The tool was recently tested with a limited number of US users to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content, regardless of the birthdate they provided when signing up. If the AI identifies a user as a minor, the platform&#8217;s existing teen safety measures will automatically be applied to their account. Users who are incorrectly flagged as minors will be prompted to upload a government ID, a credit card, or a selfie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}