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you better learn generative images ai, hexbears

linky to verge https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

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[–] WafflesTasteGood@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] cream_provider@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] WafflesTasteGood@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I kinda figured they didn't really need the media itself. Im assuming this all needs some AI shit to work (how else is it realistically going to judge age?), so even if it processes it locally, it can still send some LLM abstracted form of the media back and not technically be lying.

A human wouldn't be able to reconstruct it into the video again, but ChatGPT will start having dreams about Roblox kids and Discord gooners faces.

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

A human wouldn't be able to reconstruct it into the video again, but ChatGPT will start having dreams about Roblox kids and Discord gooners faces.

Broke: Epstein didn't kill himself

Woke: Epstein isn't dead

Bespoke: Epstein ghost-in-the-machined himself into OpenAI's datacenters to harass teens

[–] DoctimusLime@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 3 days ago

Crazy how they spin the narrative of protecting young people, meanwhile the Epstein class has been abusing the youth for decades. Everyone knew according to Cindy McCain. Joke World, eat the rich asap obvsly, capital is completely insane.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, and everyone jot this down, fuck Discord

Nothing good ever happens with Discord

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

For ~~better or for~~ worse a lot of projects use discord for everything.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

every fucking mod for every fucking game ever these days agony-shrooms

[–] blottica@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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,”

data-laughing

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Boring-ass teens continue to win, as is tradition.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Teens playing R rated games will not be age gated since the AI thinks they're adults, meanwhile pokemon and animal crossing adults will.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I wonder if it'd think I'm a kid cause Sims is a casual game series, or assume I must be an adult because Sims 2 is itself an over 20 year old game, and obviously everyone who plays it must have been around and old enough to enjoy it when it was new.

I wonder what it'd make of Rimworld and Tropico.

I mean, I don't even really use Discord, beyond being forced to when some thing has its only official support/documentation hosted there. But it's funny to wonder how it'd classify me.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Disney adult detected, pornography disabled.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

"Sir, your hours in Satisfactory tell us all we need to know. You're free to continue"

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

CW: Nasty discord shitSeriously, 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.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago

It's bullshit because a lot of tech things delegate their troubleshooting to fucking discord instead of traditional forums, it's a nightmare.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

What if it's the CIA et al making kids make other kids kill their pets to manufacture consent for this exact thing

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

It's also used by adults to groom kids, so it has horrible users of a variety of ages.

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

It's either fascist grooming rings or tech pseudo-forums that pmo so bad whenever they're forced upon me

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

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! clueless

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

Oh, i didn't really need discord anyway. Ok

[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

hopefully this will be a wakeup call for people to switch to irc, xmpp, jitsi or other foss alternatives/protocols.

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

I was briefly dual-carding as a member of UTAW, which is an affiliate of one of the largest unions in the UK.

Motherfuckers ran their comms on DISCORD 😭😭😭😭

The IWW has a minusule amount of money and resources by comparison but we at least have IT infrastructure. UTAW is a tech workers union and the best they could do was a discord server ffs.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

“WoNt SoMeBoDy PlEaSe ThInK oF tHe ChIlDrEn?!?!?!?!?”

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Both discord users and ruling elites are thinking about children a little too much actually.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

uk policies coming to the rest of the internet

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anyone here using Jami yet? Someone else on hexbear had mentioned it.

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I am. Have had fewer videochat problems than I did with Matrix/Element, but I've only been on it a few months. I'm pleased with it so far.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

I'm otw to XMPP / Jabber. Matrix is too slow and bullshitty.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I wonder whether death stranding still works.

https://gamerant.com/death-stranding-photo-mode-bypass-age-verification/

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

It hasn't even been that long since their last data breach from enforcing "age verification". I am tired of video game betas, modders and services providing support on discord.