Instagram would have ready a new tool based on Artificial Intelligence to collect user data.
According to what has been reported, the idea is that, with this initiative, Instagram will be able to recognize users who lie about their age.
For years, Artificial Intelligence has been used by different industries to offer new experiences.
Instagram will start using Artificial Intelligence technology to know even more personal data of its users.
In the list of social networks, Instagram has earned an important place in the ranking of the most used, placing itself in the preference of Internet users and being, for the moment, above TikTokSnapchat and more.
Today, the platform owned by Meta has 1.18 billion usersbeing Cristiano Ronaldo the user that generates the most income on Instagram, according to figures from the British company Hopper HQwhich shares the list of Instagram Richlist 2021.
These numbers speak, from the outset, of the growing popularity that Instagram has been achieving since its foundation in 2010, although, for a couple of years, we know that the fight with TikTok has hardened due to the boom generated by the platform developed by ByteDance.
Given this, the social network of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and on a par with other platforms, has been updated in order to offer different experiences to users and, now, has a new function in mind.
This is how Instagram will use Artificial Intelligence
According to what has been revealed, Instagram plans to use Artificial Intelligence to know personal data of Internet userssuch as his age, to mention an example.
The social network is known to force users to enter their date of birth once they register on the platform; However, for years it has been detected that there are those who do not report their real age, which is why Instagram will use technology to avoid it.
Technology has taken truly giant steps, so much so that, today, Concepts such as the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence are part of the everyday vocabulary of people.
From this perspective, the idea of Instagram is to include in its platform a function capable of scanning the user’s face in order to estimate their real age.
This comes after According to what the social network reports, there are users who lie about their age. To mention an example, knowing that the minimum age to register on Instagram is 13 years, some Internet users register older and that is where they are violating one of the platform’s rules.
The scenario for social networks is complex and, for years, platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, to name a few, have been described as “toxic spaces” for young people.
A report published in The Wall Street Journalin September of last year, caused the United States Senate to take action in order to analyze and assess the effects that this social network is generating among adolescents.
The article even warns that Facebook “is aware” of the damage that Instagram has caused to the mental health of underage users, because the platform’s algorithm usually shows “the best” of people.
“A year ago, teenager Anastasia Vlasova started seeing a therapist because she had developed an eating disorder and she knew why: too much time on Instagram. She joined the platform at the age of 13 and spent hours upon hours fascinated by the seemingly perfect lives and bodies of the fitness influencers who posted on the app,” the outlet shared.
With its new proposal, the idea is, from the outset, not to allow adolescents to register on the social network and, thereby, prevent cases like Anastasia Vlasova’s, reported in The Wall Street Journal, from continuing to happen.
Of course, its effectiveness is not known, especially in a context in which social networks, despite the great tool they represent, continue to be analyzed in terms of their impact on young people.
Artificial intelligence in industries
Now, the concept of Artificial Intelligence is not new at all, but dates back to 1956, but it is in recent years that it has become more relevant. Information of iplyticsduring 2018 almost 80 thousand Artificial Intelligence patents were filed, with Microsoft being the company with the most patents until 2019.
Today, various industries have also resorted to this type of technology; for example, months ago It was announced that football would also use Artificial Intelligence in order to deliver a more “fair” show.
It should be noted that, for some soccer specialists and analysts, “human error” had given a very particular distinction to sport in general, but with the arrival of technology to correct these flaws, that has been lost.