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by taejavu 54 days ago
What’s to stop a 40 year old from holding up a photo of their 15 year old self for the age verification camera?
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nothing at all, because it's PR security theatre done out of desperation as their platform has been gradually revealed to be a machine that destroys children's lives
It's a interactive prompt needing a webcam. You move your head to prove it is a live face.
I've seen a video of someone getting verified by drawing a face on a thumb.
It was fake
I've seen people getting verified by using a video game character creation screen. How can these AI systems possibly tell?
One thing is sure: if they can be fooled, adults will figure out a way to fool it. (Young enough children might not, but that doesn't help security). And once they're in, their child victims and their parents will be all the more likely to assume they're a child.