The highly sophisticated and clever AI has already brilliantly identified several underaged people who have youtube or associated gmail accounts that are older than the minimum age.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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The have been thoroughly unable to guess my age for the last 18 years.
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.
How long before a certain orange moron starts complaining that it keeps thinking he's 13 for some reason?
YouTube popup: What is Tik Tok?
User: A song by Kesha.
YouTube: Alright, let ‘em through.
False, that song is clearly by Ke*$*ha
Pfft, everyone knows it the Ukrainian entry in Moscow Eurovision (the one with the hamster wheel).
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.
Same same but different here. This algorithm was meant to know my wants better than me but all I get is ads for credit cards, adult diapers & hoodies.
Spruce things up a bit. Talk in front front of your phone and say how much you always wanted a pet zebra or you want an auto car wash for your house. Stuff like that.
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.
I am autistic and like 60% of my watchtime is Minecraft smp.
I no longer have an account to proof my age, i download subscriptions using yt-dlp
I hope all the advanced science videos i am downloading somehow balance it out.
chuckles i am in line to get oppressed.
I am autistic and have ADHD (inattentive, aka ADD), and when I was 13 people estimated my age in the mid 40s lmao
And yeah now I'm the opposite, feeling more free to just ramble and stuff, without spending tons upon tons of energy to keep my attention with the conversation. So will I spend 50% of my time making points completely irrelevant to the conversation? Yeah. But I'm happier for it :)
You were on 69 upvotes. Sorry for making that 70.
If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment... I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 25-35 range.
If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment... I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 9-9000 range.
You guys are taking my job again!
Good thing I'm a potato then. Good luck guessing my age!
I'm betting that it's so "intelligent" that will guess underage even if the Google account was opened in 2004
Article date: Aug 13, 2025.
What if you just play a bunch of home repair videos on the background? 🤔
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 don't think big corp wants you account sharing. "Violates ToS" they say.
I don’t want ScreamingMinecraftYoutuber67 on my watch history, and yet, it’ll be there tomorrow morning.
/s
I don't want account sharing either, except theres things like Google homes where you can't sign in with more than one account. People sharing the same account in a TV aren't trying to, it's just the natural way they use it.
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Cool, they poison their own tracking data.
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 account is, but it doesn’t say anything about the person using it.
Youtube/Google is bowing down to a government that is funding some very negative actions towards children across the ocean. Why aren't they using this AI to solve this? /s
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.
Yeah, at one point Youtube in their wisdom decided that toys are for kids, so anything to do with them got forcefully marked as "for kids". I remember many LEGO and RC channels have issues with it. And having your video or channel marked as "for kids" disables 90% of Youtube features - comments, likes, notifications, saving videos to playlists or watch later, end cards etc.
Even then, Youtube basically has only two age ratings - either the content is suitable for everyone (but you do have to mark if it is specifically aimed at kids under 13), or it's age-restricted to adults only. Imagine if movies only had the options of "G" or "NC-17". But eh, in the end it is FTC and COPPA telling them what they have to do. The alternative is that you'd have to create an account and somehow age-verify that you are over the age of 13 before Youtube was allowed to show any videos.
It annoys the shit out of me that they never made the "kids" section of youtube an entirely separate thing.
Like TV, they could curate the hell out of it and not just allow anyone to upload, but no, they instead made way too much money from elsagate videos and videos of kids swimming. Now that that's gone, it's now making money off of kids from AI slop.
It annoys the shit out of me that they never made the “kids” section of youtube an entirely separate thing.
That's exactly what they did. Ten years ago.
It's just that the FTC and COPPA force them to also mark anything that gets uploaded to regular Youtube and is "targeting" kids as such, because they aren't allowed to collect data from anyone under the age of 13.
I've never made a single comment or video post so good luck.
I watch a lot of gun videos on YouTube so they will probably assume I'm in high school.
Oof!
They will base it on the stuff you consume. Like 90% of people online lurk and don't comment anything
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 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.
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I watch plenty of penguinz0, This Old House, Smosh, and lawn care videos. Can’t wait to find out what YouTube makes of that.
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I think my account is around 18 years old so let's see what the AI thinks.
Yep I've had my account since 2006. It's old enough to vote.
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.
They wouldn't restrict access to information based on your perceived age, would they?
I am guessing this is a rethorical question, but, they already forcibly flag videos as "made for kids" against the creators' will (and despite very clear audience statistics proving it's not).
So yeah, they are totally using their magic 8-ball to restrict your content.
They were sometimes restricting videos for swearing or mentioning mature topics while being "made for kids" even though the videos were clearly not for kids.
The day it starts I'm gonna upload a bunch of old videos in a playlist, looking to monetize
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