In 2018, the AI was accurate to within a margin of 1.5 years for those aged 13–24 and to within a year for those aged 16–17 - but the firm now reports an accuracy of within 1.3 years for users aged 6–12 and to 1.5 years for those aged 13–18.įor users on the cusp of the legal limit to access social media sites - whose ages might conceivably be incorrectly assessed - platforms could then request further forms of verification before granting access.įurthermore, the firm told MailOnline, the AI has been build with 'proprietary anti-spoofing technology and passive liveness detection' to ensure that a genuine, live face is being presented for analysis. Launched in 2014, this offers a stand-alone way of proving age and identify based on a combination of ID documents and facial recognition.įor training the AI in age estimation of younger people, photographs of children were used - with parental consent - as part of a programme organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, a UK data watchdog.Īccording to London-based Yoti, they have managed to improve the accuracy of the system at estimating the ages of younger people over the last three years.
To train the AI on adult faces, Yoti engineers used images of millions of users who downloaded the firm's digital ID app.
In fact, the system is already being employed in supermarkets in Estonia for age verification at automated checkouts, and by the German version of the adult entertainment platform Fan Centro - and has already made more than 550 million age checks.
In this way, the system can be used to see if children meet the legal threshold of 13 to join apps like Facebook and Twitter - or to determine whether an individual has, say, passed the drinking age. 'Yoti's facial Age Estimation will help many different businesses comply with changing age regulation such as the new Children’s Codes.'īusinesses using the software - which previously only worked on adults - can set an age threshold for the AI to compare each user to. 'We’ve now made it easy for platforms around the world to design services "age appropriately". 'This technology will help businesses and regulators better protect young people with low friction while preserving privacy.
'The threats that children face online sadly continue to grow, so I'm proud to introduce Yoti’s Age Estimation for under 13s,' said Yoti CEO Robin Tombs.
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