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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.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Step 1: Print a photo of your dad.

Step 2: Hold it up to the camera.

Step 3: Play Resident Evil 7.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another reason why DRM is bad and only punishes those who buy the product

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re afeared of guillotines. If you put everyone under surveillance it gets much harder to build them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Can I vote for a Guillotine Party candidate?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think the day before your 18th/25th birthday and the day on your 18th birthday your face looks so much different.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

this is just another means of spying.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Drink verification can.

Any images and data used for this process are never stored

Anyone who believes this deserves it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can anybody actually remember voting for totalitarian control freaks who seem to be scared of people who are not under constant surveillance?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone who votes Republican votes for this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

we won't ever ever keep your pictures and stuff for the juiciest possible marketing fodder, we super duper pinky swear

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

All I see is one more reason to turn to piracy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally a use for all those Obama masks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks Obama!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because this strategy worked so well for determining individuals' assigned sex at birth. What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, assigning age at birth worked well so far…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The craziest coincidence, everyone I've asked was assigned the same age at birth. Small world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The same esrb that is almost irrelevant? That esrb?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Pay: ESRB facial recognition + Denuvo system monitor + custom launcher with system privileges + game

Pirate: game

This type of stuff only punishes paying customers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yo ho ho mother fuckers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can we get someome else to write this article? It literally linked to everything BUT the FTC comment website on this garbage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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 dls unlimited coins and diamonds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can't figure out if this is for parents that want that enabled or age verification for everyone?

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