Instagram relying on AI to catch teenagers posing as adults

Published April 21, 2025 3:45pm ET



Instagram’s parent company, Meta, announced Monday that it is using artificial intelligence to detect accounts operated by individuals under 18 to crack down on underage use.

“We’ve been using artificial intelligence to help determine age ranges for some time, but leveraging it in this way is a big change,” the tech giant wrote in a blog post.

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