Any kid could easily find a way around this.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-instagram-is-using-ai-to-uncover-teen-accounts-lying-about-their-age/

How Instagram is using AI to uncover teen accounts lying about their age

… In a blog post, Instagram says that starting today it will use AI to detect users lying about their age and automatically move those accounts to one of the limited teen accounts that debuted last fall.

Meta offered several examples. First, it will monitor which profiles and content an account interacts with. Since people in the same age range generally enjoy similar content and interact with each other, if a non‑teen account interacts heavily with teen accounts and teen‑related content, Meta may flag that account.

Second, Meta will review what it calls "strong signals of age," or things like birthday messages -- for example, if another user posts something like "Screaming happy 15th birthday to my best friend."

Is AI creating a not-so-artificial police state?

https://www.techpolicy.press/five-findings-from-an-analysis-of-the-us-department-of-homeland-securitys-ai-inventory/

Five Findings from an Analysis of the US Department of Homeland Security’s AI Inventory

Starting in early 2024, Just Futures Law and Mijente researched the United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) use of artificial intelligence (AI) amidst growing concerns—even before the start of the second Trump administration—about the lack of transparency and public information available on the inventory of AI tools DHS maintains. Our initial findings, presented in the 2024 report “Automating Deportation,” exposed details of the DHS AI armory—most of which had never been seen—and how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are using it to surveil the millions of migrants entering and residing in the United States.

In the course of our research, we also discovered that DHS was already violating existing policies and laws related to transparency, oversight, and its obligations to monitor its products for AI harm. Our team met with DHS to share our findings and organized letters demanding that DHS shutter AI to mitigate further harm. The pressure exerted by national civil rights groups led to the termination of some AI programs and DHS’s review and assessment of its AI inventory, including direct responses to our inquiries and public pages that publicly named AI tools and uses that had never previously been identified.

In the last days of the Biden Administration, DHS released its most complete inventory, revealing new AI uses that it had kept hidden. It was the only requirement that DHS was able to meet out of a long list of requirements from the Biden administration’s Executive Orders on AI directed to federal agencies, many of which were fast-tracking AI without considering whether it would hurt the public or violate civil rights protections. Just Futures Law went through the most recent DHS inventory to share these insights with the public.