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Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face!
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I mean I'm usually not the skeptic when it comes to privacy rights, but it's hard for me to defend against an action like this. Because I don't see a purpose of needing that information outside of the intent to sell to third party
Social media are more and more required by law to prevent kids from using their service. I don't see a way to achieve that with no risks to privacy.
Then there shouldn't be such laws. It's not the government's job to parent.
won't somebody please think of the children!
Which is why the laws suck. Don't fix a stupid law with stupid policy, fix the stupid law.
I couldn't imagine an AI model will be very accurate of being able to identify a 11 year old vs a 13 year old. I assume this is more to try and vett whether they can access NSFW channels or not, but honestly since humans can't properly vett that, I don't know how an AI is supposed to reliably do that.