As it did with Instagram, Meta is teaming up with a third-party company, Yoti, for the age identification system. It uses machine learning trained on “hundreds of thousands” of pictures to estimate a person’s age. You can try it out anonymously right here if you want to feel young/old. It was pretty accurate when estimating this writer’s age.
The technology will be used to ensure those who sign up for Facebook Dating are at least 18 years old. Users have two options: upload a form of identification or a video selfie.
