{"id":987529,"date":"2026-01-24T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987529"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:19:58","slug":"meta-pauses-teen-access-to-ai-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/meta-pauses-teen-access-to-ai-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta pauses teen access to AI characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is halting teens&#8217; access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Meta Platforms Inc., which own Instagram and WhatsApp, said that starting in the &#8220;coming weeks,&#8221; teens will no longer be able to access AI characters &#8220;until the updated experience is ready&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This applies to anyone who gave Meta a birthday that makes them a minor, as well as &#8220;people who claim to be adults but who we suspect are teens based on our age prediction technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is halting teens&#8217; access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday. Meta Platforms Inc., which own Instagram and WhatsApp, said that starting in the &#8220;coming weeks,&#8221; teens will no longer be able to access AI characters &#8220;until the updated experience is ready&#8221; This applies to anyone who gave Meta a birthday that makes them a minor, as well as &#8220;people who claim to be adults but who we suspect are teens based on our age prediction technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987529","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}