• Zagorath
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    6910 months ago

    There is a 0% chance that AI can accurately determine if someone is 18 or not, even with hypothetical futuristic AI technology. Some 20-year-olds look very young. Some 16-year-olds look shockingly old. And nobody changes very significantly between the day of their 18th birthday and the day they were 17 years, 364 days.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Hell, even 13-15 year olds are looking much older. I genuinely saw one in normal clothes, took a guess based on her being around maybe 20. Saw her a day later in school uniform. And only under 16’s wear them.

      Really did make me realise I am shit at age guessing.

    • @platypus_plumba
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      210 months ago

      Exactly, this is something that even humans would have a hard time doing. Even though AI can do many things better than humans, humans are better at vision at the moment.

      • Zagorath
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        110 months ago

        humans are better at vision at the moment

        Eh, humans are better at certain kinds of vision—particularly on tasks that deal with non-white people where the AI was trained mostly on white people.

        But things where the vision is looking at very fine detail, AI is very good at. Like determining if a patient has a disease based on a retinal scan or other medical imagery.

        And I think it’s fair to say that, at least superficially, the problem in this thread seems like it might be more similar to those medical cases where an AI could do a really good job. The problem is that actually, no. There’s no known marker that could determine age with the level of accuracy that would be required for this task.

        • @platypus_plumba
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          210 months ago

          Agreed.

          Anyways, still a very stupid idea. People can pick an old person’s selfie in the internet. Whoever proposed that is really dumb.

  • @dgmib
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    3710 months ago

    ‘cause if there’s one demographic that couldn’t possibly have the aptitude, resourcefulness or motivation needed to defeat a scheme like this it’s horny teenagers.

    • Cliffjumper
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      610 months ago

      Sales of fake moustaches are gonna skyrocket

  • @[email protected]
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    3410 months ago

    Surely this won’t block lots of legitimate users, while simultaneously being trivially easy to bypass by submitting a picture of literally anyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      2210 months ago

      But it’s so much more than that. It’s a privacy nightmare in general and a boon for anyone interested in blackmail.

      Totally gonna work this time though.

      Such a complicated series of tubes, ye olde internet.

    • @momocchi
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      1910 months ago

      Simply AI generate an adult face, it’ll be AI the whole way down

      • Kalkaline
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        1310 months ago

        Or alternatively send a dick pic, if they are underage, now they’re in possession of child porn, congrats you played yourself.

        • Pons_Aelius
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          1010 months ago

          Nah. then they will charge the child (and try them as a adult…) for distributing child porn images.

          • DarkThoughts
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            610 months ago

            I swear I’ve read a similar headline a while ago of some teen being charged for that, because they sent nude selfies of themselves.

            • Pons_Aelius
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              810 months ago

              That is where I got the (fucked up) idea from.

              IIRC: In USA. Teen sent nude pic to his girlfriend, both 16. He was charged with distributing child porn and put on a sex offender register for life.

              • Echo Dot
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                610 months ago

                USA is determined to out stupid every other country on earth isn’t it.

                • @cactusupyourbutt
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                  110 months ago

                  a child bathing naked isnt neccessarily csam, really depends on the nature of the picture

  • amio
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    2410 months ago

    The UK should stick to things they know, like tea, comedy shows, fox hunting, and unelected MPs.

    • @platypus_plumba
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      110 months ago

      What about giving money to the royal family because of reasons?

  • Chemical Wonka
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    10 months ago

    The government says selfies for AI verification are to “protect” children from such content but in reality we know it’s all to create a database with biometric hashes of everyone and create the long-awaited dystopia of 24/7 mass surveillance. The government that completes the task first comes out ahead, and it seems that China is winning the dispute

    • @Drusenija
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      410 months ago

      Maybe they can use all those sexy pictures of John Oliver that got posted in protest over at Reddit.

  • Gazumi
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    1010 months ago

    And so the last steps to privacy are removed.

  • @[email protected]
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    810 months ago

    What’s the porn site going to do when AI determines that a 15 year old is over 18?

    “Judge, I swear the AI said she was 18!”