“When it detects a user may be under 18, Google will notify them that it has changed some of their settings and will offer information about how users can verify their age with a selfie, credit card, or government ID.”

Selfies are useless as proof for young adults and people with a young face. No algorithm can tell a 17.11 yo from a 18 yo so it will flag every single one of them.

This is a way to normalize handing over your details for the next generations. Nothing more.

The good news isn that once teens figure out that other browsers and search engines don’t stop them from finding porn they might stick with them.

But they already did that to target ads. Someone found a way to repackage an existing feature for their performance review?

It’s gonna think I am a 7 year old girl with the shit I search for and keep on my google cloud. 😭

That’s weird, the computer says everyone was born January 1, 1900.

I’d say it’s bound to be more difficult for Google, as every Youtube comment for example, sounds like being made by an 8 yo. Whereas Meta can just tell. You’re still on Facebook? Probably 50+… And on WhatsApp, the amount of boomer memes re-posted would be an immediate tell…

Time to flood their AI with a ton of skibidi toilet and ‘what the sigma’ memes, so it confuses everyone for eight year olds.

This just sounds like an excuse to get more training data. Like those companies that use AI to guess someone’s age based on a photo while their website is covered in AI images.

Need to work on replacing YouTube

But it already asked me to confirm a guess about me years ago… I confirmed the guess, that is my info, whatever it said.

Good luck with that

Okay Google, if you can guess my age accurately to within a decade based on my youtube viewing history and whatever other data you can get, I will give you a cookie.