This is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard in my life.
In particular if I am online and neurotypical toxic people are thrown off by my ADHD, the VERY FIRST THING they do in their intellectual laziness is assume I am a kid.
The idea that this isn’t considered an explicit oppression of neurodivergent adults is laughable to me. These systems will police for neurodivergence, not age. The obvious response from the center will be “just don’t act like a kid then” and I would like to send a pre-emptive “go fuck yourself you are destroying everything” to those people.
I am autistic and have ADHD (inattentive, aka ADD), and when I was 13 people estimated my age in the mid 40s lmao
And yeah now I’m the opposite, feeling more free to just ramble and stuff, without spending tons upon tons of energy to keep my attention with the conversation. So will I spend 50% of my time making points completely irrelevant to the conversation? Yeah. But I’m happier for it :)
I am autistic and like 60% of my watchtime is Minecraft smp.
I no longer have an account to proof my age, i download subscriptions using yt-dlp
I hope all the advanced science videos i am downloading somehow balance it out.
chuckles i am in line to get oppressed.
You were on 69 upvotes. Sorry for making that 70.
If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment… I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 25-35 range.
If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment… I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 9-9000 range.
Good thing I’m a potato then. Good luck guessing my age!
You guys are taking my job again!
I’m betting that it’s so “intelligent” that will guess underage even if the Google account was opened in 2004
IIRC that is one parameter they actually mentioned taking into account.
I guess my 2006 or 2007 or whatever YouTube account (which, yes, I later connected with my Google account - not all that much later, in fact) will perhaps qualify me for adult-only content finally.
Is this why Google sent me an email saying they changed my settings and I can scan in my ID if I want to change them back?
The system relies on signals such as the types of videos a user searches for and watches, and how long their account has been active, to determine whether they are under the age of 18.
That’s not actually AI is it ?
Start peppering your responses with archaic terms and slang… Confuse the hell out of them
I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.
And that’s not just a win for companies. The fact that my metadata is out there is great for me as a user. Like with targeted ads – I get tons of coupons from cool restaurants.
Can’t tell if /s
It’s a direct quote from when Sascha Kemmis-Powers visited Smart Pipe
They already do this. There was a way to check and there may still be. When I checked like 10 years ago it was wrong about everything. Age, hobbies, everything
So good luck yt I guess
https://myadcenter.google.com/controls
It basically nailed everything about me :/
Cool, they poison their own tracking data.
I’ve never made a single comment or video post so good luck.
I watch a lot of gun videos on YouTube so they will probably assume I’m in high school.
or you’re about to go to a high school very soon!
This comment has me in critical condition.
Oof!
They will base it on the stuff you consume. Like 90% of people online lurk and don’t comment anything
I mean, I’ve heard of other sites using info like having a saved payment card in your own name, or the age of the account itself to know that the user is over 18 without needing ID.
But this is Google, they want to flex their analytics and get as much additional info on everyone as they can.
This was literally the first thing that came to mind. So many people have android phones with cards already linked to google, paying for YouTube premium would do the same thing. But nope, Skynet is the better way to do it
I’ve been wondering lately how effective a service would be that takes your credentials for a service, such as YouTube, and starts engaging with content at random so that the data the service has on you is all junk
Don’t know how meaningful something like this would even be, but if all these companies are gonna try so hard to collect data on me then I’d rather fill that data with useless junk
With all the data they collect I wish they would target me with the right ads. I don’t want an AI girlfriend, to buy a toyota in spanish, or comemeritive trump merch
Using an ad blocker I get nothing but the types of ads I wanna see; Which is none at all. 😌
Im told the technology can also estimate shoe size and the relative realtion of the two!
I always knew my fascination with redstone would come back to bite me
My planned solution is to use a browser on a proxy that clears cookies after closing.
I watch plenty of penguinz0, This Old House, Smosh, and lawn care videos. Can’t wait to find out what YouTube makes of that.
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I watch cartoons meant for kids. They’re gonna think I’m 7.
I’ve got a random living room account that’s used for Gen alpha brain rot, 80s R&B music videos, video essays, nature live streams, kids shows, horror stories, and documentaries. good luck.
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