The ESRB has added:
“To be perfectly clear: Any images and data used for this process are never stored, used for AI training, used for marketing, or shared with anyone; the only piece of information that is communicated to the company requesting VPC is a “Yes” or “No” determination as to whether the person is over the age of 25.”
Sure, ok…
I don’t know what else to say about this, this will obviously turn into something else.
Can anybody actually remember voting for totalitarian control freaks who seem to be scared of people who are not under constant surveillance?
Everyone who votes Republican votes for this.
While true, unfortunately the latest government spy bill is bipartisan. It will make end to end encryption for texts and chat illegal, using drug enforcement as the excuse.
Nearly a quarter of Americans say that a strong leader who doesn’t have to bother with Congress or elections would be “fairly” or “very good” and 18 percent say that “army rule” would be “fairly” or “very good.” More than a quarter of respondents show at least some support for either a “strong leader” or “army rule.”
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/follow-the-leader
A disturbing minority of human beings unironically prefer being under a boot.
I don’t think the day before your 18th/25th birthday and the day on your 18th birthday your face looks so much different.
this is just another means of spying.
Can we get someome else to write this article? It literally linked to everything BUT the FTC comment website on this garbage.
Drink verification can.
Any images and data used for this process are never stored
Anyone who believes this deserves it.
Since it determines if you’re over the age of 25, maybe instead they could get a more accurate measure by having you drink a verification beer.
Can people who stop trying to throw tech at things where it clearly doesn’t belong? Seems like every time I turn around people are trying to use AI for things with the expectation that it’s some flawless innovation that can do no wrong.
And that’s not even getting into the privacy nightmare that comes with things like this
we won’t ever ever keep your pictures and stuff for the juiciest possible marketing fodder, we super duper pinky swear
I’ll either avoid buying anything with this tech or pirate it. I want this idea to be 6 foot under as soon as possible.
Can’t figure out if this is for parents that want that enabled or age verification for everyone?
America needs to get over its fear of a national ID system already. A lot of its problems regarding citizenship, voting, sexual consent, medical records, criminal records, banking and gaming can be solved with a national ID system. Pair the ID with a phone number. To access R18 content, you have to type in the ID number and approve a 2FA on the phone. No need for facial recognition.
The only problems ive had with voting was in states that instituted voting ID.
And you also have a nice database of peoples kinks for the future authoritarion government.
To be clear, I don’t have a solution for the problem itself, but both a central registry of 18+ content use and facial recognition are not the solutions we’re looking for.
There is no problem here that needs to be solved. This does not solve any real problem and only creates more, even worse problems.
Yeah and now we just have our social security numbers (if many states have their way) and Driver licenses being a nice database. Like we need a national ID system (not for 18+ material, just in general) since our current system is utter garbage because it was never designed to be used as identification material. The SSN system was hijacked for tax reasons and many banks and institution followed suit.
@jeena @Chickenstalker What are you talking about? Governments have never shifted into authoritarian structures.
They call them big brothers because they look out for you /s.
While I agree with the idea that there is merit to a proper and well designed national id for official uses, I disagree with the idea of attaching it to R18 content. The way I see it, trying to do so inevitably intrudes on people’s privacy in some way (content providers might collect that ID to check against government records, leading to the risk that they improperly store it, for example, or the government might be tempted to police the activities of adults to an unreasonable level, or at least creates the infrastructure to do so if a more restrictive government came into power). Further, it will not and fundamentally cannot stop kids from accessing things deemed inappropriate for them, because kids are curious, and the things one wants to restrict in this way are generally information, which is trivially easy for them to copy and distribute among themselves. I think we need better education, both to children/teenagers (depending on the subject) about those topics we as a society seem averse to the idea of them knowing about, but which they will inevitably learn of anyway (things like sex-ed, or how to deal with drug addiction or its presence among people they might know (and not just in the counterproductive way that things like DARE used to do)), and to parents about how to deal with children becoming curious about or trying to access restricted topics. Beyond that, I think we should generally leave it to parents to parent their children. While it might not be ideal if some kid gets access to a video game rated for adults, it also isnt physically dangerous to them in the way that something like alcohol is, so treating it the same way is overkill at best.
You’re acting like any government, American or no, can handle the security aspects of a national database. Also, what’s the point? Using an ID to play games, to watch porn? That shit is dumb, you can’t nationalize or control the internet in any form, even with ID specifications. It’s just not a realistic goal
Yeah… no.
Yo ho ho mother fuckers
Finally a use for all those Obama masks
Thanks Obama!
To be perfectly clear: Any images and data used for this process are never stored, used for AI training, used for marketing, or shared with anyone; the only piece of information that is communicated to the company requesting VPC is a “Yes” or “No” determination as to whether the person is over the age of 25.
I’d have a hard time coming up with a better lie than this.
The same esrb that is almost irrelevant? That esrb?
To be perfectly clear: Any images and data used for this process are never stored, used for AI training, used for marketing, or shared with anyone
Does anyone have some bridges for sale? I suddenly feel an urge to buy a bridge.
Because this strategy worked so well for determining individuals’ assigned sex at birth. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, assigning age at birth worked well so far…
Depends on where you’re from. Koreans count you as one year old when you’re born.
Aren’t they dropping that system soon?
The craziest coincidence, everyone I’ve asked was assigned the same age at birth. Small world.
Saw an app try exactly this. It was run by terfs and they wanted to lock out anyone who wasn’t a cis woman. Instead it labelled almost every black woman a man and many trans women got through the filter anyway.
It already has gone wrong.
There’s a story about a gay couple here in Sweden. One of the men lived with his mother.
One morning, around 3-4AM I think, a group of masked men went into his apartment and woke him up violently. They physically abused him, before they took him away.
Eventually he was taken to an interrogation room where he was questioned about a child he had supposedly sexually assaulted.
At some point they showed him pictures of him and this purported child, only said child was his very much adult, twink-ass boyfriend.
He and his boyfriend had shared the images with one another over a chat service, like Kik or something, which some American organisation had gotten their hands on, and then forwarded to Swedish police.
Swedish police then swatted him, and when they stood there with egg on their face the investigation was dropped. No repercussions for the police. None of the people who brutally assaulted the man got any sort of punishment, because he wasn’t able to identify any of them, since they were masked and he shockingly didn’t have X-ray vision, and the police had magically lost all records of who they sent out to bring him in.
Thinking back on this still fills me with rage. I’ve always thought our police were fairly chill and approachable, nothing like the gun toting cowards in the US, but no. It seems like ACAB holds true everywhere.
