They want us to buy sam altman eyeball thingy
(midwest.social)
plinky [he/him]
technologyyou better learn generative images ai, hexbears
linky to verge https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
hopefully this will be a wakeup call for people to switch to irc, xmpp, jitsi or other foss alternatives/protocols.
I'm otw to XMPP / Jabber. Matrix is too slow and bullshitty.
I wonder whether death stranding still works.
https://gamerant.com/death-stranding-photo-mode-bypass-age-verification/
Anyone here using Jami yet? Someone else on hexbear had mentioned it.
uk policies coming to the rest of the internet
Im convinced this and the similar age "verification" for Roblox using face pictures is just to help train AI on faces and has little to do with any of the safety bullshit.
Even if the image isnt saved, they can still presumably add it to training data during the verification process before tossing the file. This is pretty standard course for most image processing AI stuff.
As far as I'm aware the discord mobile version doesn't upload the video. It's all done locally on the device and then what's sent to discord is either "yes they are an adult" or an estimated age figure (could be either).
On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.
Of course they could be lying, but sending a video from the device should be quite easy for anyone to prove they're lying no?
For now. A year or two down the road the terms of service get updated and now they do collect the video. It’s just habituating the public to let go of any expectation of privacy.
However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.
“If we have a high confidence that they are an adult, they will not have to go through the other age verification flows,”
Boring-ass teens continue to win, as is tradition.
Teens playing R rated games will not be age gated since the AI thinks they're adults, meanwhile pokemon and animal crossing adults will.
“WoNt SoMeBoDy PlEaSe ThInK oF tHe ChIlDrEn?!?!?!?!?”
Both discord users and ruling elites are thinking about children a little too much actually.
Yeah I for sure want the weird hentai discords I use to have a picture of my ID and face, I'm sure nothing will go wrong with that!
I don't know how most people use discord nowadays, but in my country it seems that whenever I see it being mentioned in the news it's because a group of teenagers did some horrible shit in a discord group and got arrested (or whatever it is the police do to teens, particularly of the affluent type). It's no longer an app for chatting while gaming, but it's very much connected to that piece of shit chud gamer 4chan-adjacent type of rhetoric.
::: spoiler CW: Nasty discord shit Seriously, we're talking about people sharing Nazi shit, violent content, as well as CSAM these teenage boys made of the girls they bullied into taking nude selfies and then harming themselves. We're talking about kids doing "challenges" where they bully other kids their age or younger into killing their pets. It's really horrendous.
:::
So good riddance, I guess, but I don't mean that as an endorsement to encroaching on online privacy. All I mean is that, while I am opposed to this type of ID requirement... in this instance, nothing of value seems to be lost.
Seems to be the real app where people were getting radicalized to the far-right more than YouTube or Instagram were
It's bullshit because a lot of tech things delegate their troubleshooting to fucking discord instead of traditional forums, it's a nightmare.
It's also used by adults to groom kids, so it has horrible users of a variety of ages.
What if it's the CIA et al making kids make other kids kill their pets to manufacture consent for this exact thing
I mean, and everyone jot this down, fuck Discord
Nothing good ever happens with Discord
For ~~better or for~~ worse a lot of projects use discord for everything.
every fucking mod for every fucking game ever these days
Oh, i didn't really need discord anyway. Ok
