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.
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.
Good thing I’m a potato then. Good luck guessing my age!
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.
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.
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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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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’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.
or you’re about to go to a high school very soon!
This comment has me in critical condition.
Oof!
They will base it on the stuff you consume. Like 90% of people online lurk and don’t comment anything
Article date: Aug 13, 2025.
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.
Nah, google accounts are a recent thing, no way can that be a thing… Can it?
Oh hell I’m old…
My Gmail account is old enough to buy drinks in a bar in the US (21)
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.
How long before a certain orange moron starts complaining that it keeps thinking he’s 13 for some reason?
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 watch plenty of penguinz0, This Old House, Smosh, and lawn care videos. Can’t wait to find out what YouTube makes of that.
I’ve got a random living room account that’s used for Gen alpha brain rot, 80s R&B music videos, video essays, nature live streams, kids shows, horror stories, and documentaries. good luck.
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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.
What if you just play a bunch of home repair videos on the background? 🤔
The have been thoroughly unable to guess my age for the last 18 years.
Start peppering your responses with archaic terms and slang… Confuse the hell out of them
I always knew my fascination with redstone would come back to bite me
