Auditing Engagement Incentives in the Kidfluencer Ecosystem: A Multimodal Weak Supervision Approach
The rise of `kidfluencers' on YouTube has raised ethical concerns about child digital labor and exploitation. While emerging legislation attempts to regulate this ecosystem, empirical evidence linking exploitation to engagement remains scarce, given the difficulty of operationalizing exploitation at scale. This study presents a multimodal AI audit of 5,051 videos across 79 kidfluencer channels, using weak supervision to detect exploitation signals without large-scale manual labels. We aggregate
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Published: 2 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Jobs & economy · Children & education · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (2 June 2026), “Auditing Engagement Incentives in the Kidfluencer Ecosystem: A Multimodal Weak Supervision Approach,” evidence record 3233, https://ethics.ai/record/3233 (originally published by arXiv).
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