UIX Reimagined #17 - Facebook AI Photo Detection 📸

It's Meta Facebook, but it uses AI to auto-detect minors in pictures, and blurs their faces out 📷 👨‍👩‍👧What if we used AI for good by using it to reduce the exposure of minors on the internet through auto face-blurring?

I think it's a safe prediction that children's exposure ON the internet and TO the internet is going to change a lot (and hopefully improve) in the coming years. For example, I think we'll see a much more considered approach to uploading pictures to social media, currently up to 42% of parents in the UK say they share pictures of their children online (https://lnkd.in/eAmG42-y). Education on this topic will continue to improve, but with the increasing power of AI, the stakes of sharing pictures online are getting higher. For example, in February in Spain, 5 teenagers were investigated for posting pictures of naked minors that had been taken from social media profiles and then manipulated using AI (https://lnkd.in/ep24J8Pz.).

Unfortunately, phone ownership is increasing not just in teens, but in young ages too; in the UK this year, Ofcom found that a quarter of 5-7 year-olds had smartphones 🤯. Over in the US, Florida banned children under 14 from having social media accounts and requiring minors aged 14 and 15 to have parental consent to have one. I wonder if we'll see a lot more moves in this direction?

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