To be fair, the game’s rated 18+ in the UK. In terms of the law, this probably doesn’t suffice. But theoretically, there still is a kind of age-check in place :'D
That game is going to get really popular now with some folks not even playing it. lol
Man I thought we had it bad over here in the US, tf going on over there now?
This age verification thing is so stupid but it’s good to know it can be bypassed this easily!! not gonna dox myself I care about my privacy 🤘 hope enough people rebel against this measure gets overturned bc it shows this country doesn’t care about people’s privacy online which is ironic considering the name
This is a clever way to bypass. If they get wise and somehow filter out Sam Porter Bridges’ face, you could always fire up any of the games of comparable visual realism which let you design your own character’s appearance.
Just get an AI to generate a face. If it’s prepared to accept photos from video games and it’ll probably accept AI generated images.
Not really that I expected competence.
From what the article says the app watches you while you change expressions as prompted, so you can’t use AI-generated still images. That’s why using a game’s photo mode, where you can toggle the CG facial expression around in real time while pointing your camera at it, is such a clever solution.
https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ for the rescue.
Wasn’t exactly this talked about a few years ago?
I’ve seen this suggested elsewhere and it seems like the least intrusive suggestion to me - why not simply use the device as the age verification. Almost every phone/tablet/computer already knows your age through it’s own sign-up/activation method, so why not allow the device to offer an API that provides age verification to sites that require it.
It could simply be a permissions-based answer where an adult site requests a yes/no answer to the question “is this user an adult” from the device and the user is prompted to provide the permissions for the site to have that data.
This would solve the problem for the vast majority of iphone/android/windows/macos consumers.
Except there is no ID/age verification when you create a Google or Microsoft account (no idea about Apple, don’t use that crap), so you’re suggesting that the “birthday” field where I can set whatever date I want should be a standard age verification method?
Jesus Christ, no, I’m not suggesting that nothing changes from exactly what we do now. I’m suggesting a new, more secure, less intrusive method, and it’s not even an original suggestion. Just try a little bit of thought.
If it’s going to be implemented by law anyway, the age verification should be at the device level. The device accounts already do ask your age - directly or indirectly - although it’s not stringently enforced, however each of the big 3 already have a minimum age requirement to set up an account as per their terms and conditions.
It’s not a big leap to suggest that true age verification is done at that point seeing as you already often have to provide an age or payment information to set up on-device payment details, meaning there’s no need to involve a third party at any other subsequent point.
Honestly, I’d rather see official governmental third parties that handle ID verification and guarantee to discord and any service needing age verification that the user is over the required age. Not comfortable with sharing any sort of verifying data with private companies, even less american companies. I have to for some stuff, but… Not liking it one bit.
There is already a few countries here in Europe with an official governmental identity verification system, and I’m pretty sure age verification can be done through them. I think the EU is also working on a system covering the entirety of Europe, but not certain.
The difficulty you might end up with there is governments not permitting their age verification system for certain sites if they desired. Meaning even greater governmental control of what sites you can access.
Well then the site uses a different system that complies with regulations. I don’t see this as a problem, it doesn’t have to be the only service that can verify your age.
Which is essentially where we are now. Multiple services providing age verification on a per-site basis.
Yeah, but I’d rather have the option of a government one than yet another rando company with my sensitive data :)
