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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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[–] tdawg 114 points 2 days ago

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they ask for my face I'm done with Discord my friends and I will find a new place to chill

[–] WhatAmLemmy 12 points 1 day ago

Enshittification guarantees a near 100% chance they'll do it eventually, so you're better off preemptively moving to an alternative sooner that later.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hmmm. So how long before another AI is able to generate a good enough face to fool the age verification AI (or can it already)? Interesting three-legged race there.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I would recommend Signal and maybe Tox (protocol, has several clients).

Signal is a nonprofit. They make it a point not to collect your data. Just the phone number. Military folks seem to like them.

Tox is not a centralized entity at all, anarchists seem to like it. Multiple Tox clients exist and use a common protocol and network. Messaging happens via peer-to-peer, lookups make use of servers. For messaging to occur, both communicating parties have to be online, so don't expect much convenience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Oh my God it's been so many years since I've heard of tox I set up a q-tox account years ago, then no one used the platform so I just let it rest. I think I have my identity key is still stored on my developer sync, I forgot that platform existed

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[–] nixcamic 11 points 1 day ago

As someone who looks significantly younger than they are, I'm curious as to how this will work.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

*sets up mumble server

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (9 children)

If you have a discord account, they already know who you are. If you tried to get an account anonymously, they'd ban you and demand a phone number.

I never used discord because it was never possible to do so securely. Friends dont let friends use discord.

Use matrix or something better.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The annoying thing is that a lot of support or even downloadable content is on Discord exclusively. We've had similar shitty trends with Facebook, Tumblr, etc. and it just is annoying. People claim it's where most people are but ignore the fact that it is impossible to access for everyone who is not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, using authwalled websites is stupid.

In my country politicians upload their policies exclusively on authwalled sites. The website just links to authwalled social media accounts. Its infuriating.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I do not have a camera....so get fucked I guess. Ok discord..bye, you are easily replaced as a voice chat for videogames with friends.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You know, revolt exists. Matrix is good but it isn't the same experience as discord. Revolt is a pretty good open source copy of discord.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who absolutely hates Discord's UI & UX? It's obtuse and bloated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In what way?

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

I see people posting that self hosting revolt is challenging but possible. Shit this might replace matrix

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Matrix's protocol with revolt's UI is what we need

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

And Signal's SMS feature. I'd love to gradually move my contacts over to something else, and being able to convince one at a time to switch their SMS client would make that so much easier.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

if that happens to me and discord wants me to send selfies to my self,Am going to Matrix and maybe use my discord alt to take to my friends who dont wanna use matrix.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Do you guys think that maybe we could fool the AI with AI?

I’d like to try to verify an account using a This Person Does Not Exist generated image, but I don’t use Discord at all

[–] TheEighthDoctor 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can, a shitty deepfake will trick most verification systems, I've tested it in banks before