Karen Moscow

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Well, before I was even taken aback by the AI content, I was taken aback by the fact that there are so many babies on YouTube and YouTube Kids in the first place.

Yeah, talk about that stat.

So we know that kids are loving YouTube.

They have been for a very long time, so much so that YouTube created YouTube Kids a decade ago to help create a safer space for this audience.

However,

YouTube will be the first to say that YouTube Kids is not created for babies under the age of two.

It is recommended really for kids ages two to 12.

But new Pew data has shown that babies and infants are actually flocking to YouTube in droves.

But in speaking to experts for the story, it is clear that a lot of what you see on YouTube Kids is promoting itself as being educational.

You see titles that say that they're educational, things like learning to talk or how to say your ABCs.

So I think the question is how YouTube Kids balances that, whether these are questions that they address, and sort of what they communicate to parents to help parents feel more comfortable that the content that is up there is actually vetted and not just simply chosen by AI as something that could be appropriate for kids.

who described wanting to get rid of YouTube Kids altogether because they said that more than any other platform that their kids are using or app, when they're told to turn off YouTube Kids, they actually can't turn it off.

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