Technology

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.

Accounts used by multiple people enter the room.

By kids often use my account on our shared family TV. We have adults in 30s/40s, early teens, and toddlers all using YouTube for different things.

This is a stupid idea.

I've never made a single comment or video post so good luck.

Youtube doesn't have the best history for this. One channel makes stop motion animations and showcases Transformers. It got marked as a children's channel. The channel went on to showcase Transformers doing lewd acts.

Cool, they poison their own tracking data.

Article date: Aug 13, 2025.

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.

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.

I am almost 70 and my wife and have a great time confusing the AI targeted ads. I get tampon ads she gets men’s diaper ads. We never know what we are going to get since we are always feeding misinformation into our phones.

I think my account is around 18 years old so let's see what the AI thinks.

I watch plenty of penguinz0, This Old House, Smosh, and lawn care videos. Can’t wait to find out what YouTube makes of that.

YouTube popup: What is Tik Tok?

User: A song by Kesha.

YouTube: Alright, let ‘em through.

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

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?

How long before a certain orange moron starts complaining that it keeps thinking he's 13 for some reason?

What if you just play a bunch of home repair videos on the background? 🤔

Im told the technology can also estimate shoe size and the relative realtion of the two!

The have been thoroughly unable to guess my age for the last 18 years.

Search.... Sponge Bob Ross hand painting practice.

It's going to be really hilarious if my account gets flagged by the AI.
I made it in 2004, it's old enough to drink.

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 ?

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