Meta has shared more information about how it plans to use AI to catch teens who lie about their age on Instagram. As first reported by Bloomberg, early next year, the company will deploy “adult classifier,

Meta Platforms Inc., under fire from parents and lawmakers over its impact on teens’ mental health, plans to use artificial intelligence to identify young users on Instagram who are lying about their age and automatically switch them into more restrictive privacy settings.

The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.

Meta Platforms Inc. has granted approval for US government agencies and defense contractors to use its AI models, opening the door for Meta’s technology to play a key role in military and national security efforts.

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta would like you to know that they love America. Meta announced today that it would make its Llama models available to U.S. government agencies and contractors working on issues of national security.