The AI detection system known as “adult classifier” is another tool that Meta Platforms has employed in order to help identify fake teenagers on the platform who provided false data about their age The. Facebook introduced an adult classifier for the online protection of children since social networks are facing increasing concern over the impact of several negative psychological effects on children under age.​

Key Highlights:

• An AI detection system utilizes user behavioral data, including content actions and birthday message engagements, for age estimation purposes. ​
• User accounts deemed suspiciously underage will transform automatically into teen accounts, which impose stricter privacy restrictions. ​
• The default privacy status of teenage accounts includes protection from unknown messages alongside limitations for sensitive content viewing. ​
• Users need to provide documentation proof or a Yoti video-based identity check to verify their age when they attempt to switch their age to 18 or older. ​
• Parents gain control with Instagram through Parental Controls that enable them to set interaction limits and watch their teens' activity for supervision and protection.

Meta intended this program to work as combative line of defense to the problem of children viewing bad material on the internet as well as fight the challenges relating to regulation of the age on the internet. In as much as the company knows that age verification is not easy to conduct, they hold the goal of creating safe and censored areas online for the young users.​

The assessed AI tool is only one of many solutions that Meta has provided to address criticism and legal concerns related to the safety of young people using Meta’s social products. In order to address the problem of the use of fake age, Meta incorporates technological solutions and provisions regarding parental control.​

Whether the measures in question work well or not, it can be said that it is an important move in the ongoing fight to protect minors online.​