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Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458015

If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They do technically still offer a "manual review", which is what they do now, where you have to take a photo using any kind of camera with your photo ID and email it... which isn't really better, and can be very, very slow in actually regaining access to an account.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Since when do they ask for age? I remember you didn't even need a verified email