Age verification is an extremely valuable tool that aims to better protect children and prevent them from accessing content and services that are not suitable for them. But as has been shown in the case of YouTube, the algorithm is very unreliable and suddenly included many adult users among children's accounts. A fix is of course possible, but very unpleasant for many. And now the same is planned for Discord.
Google acknowledges that its age estimation algorithm can be flawed. All you need to do is have your child on your YouTube account occasionally watched children's videos and suddenly you can find yourself in a trap. To get out of it, you have to authenticate yourself to Google, often with the help of Selfie, but also through its personal documentWhich is not to the liking of many angry users. Why should they share their very personal data with Google?
But Google continues to do its own thing and continues to detect alleged children posing as adults. OpenAI also plans to implement the same, which it intends to implement in chatGPT introduce a division into adults and young people under 18 years of age. Anyone who verifies themselves will be able to generate more daring adult contentPlus, children should not be shown upcoming reklamyAnd now the aforementioned one comes with its own version Discord.
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Prove you are an adult
Discord intends to choose a different strategy. According to the press release, it will Mark all new accounts as child accounts by default, respectively for teenagers. And until you prove you are an adult, you will remain in restricted mode. So they literally force new users legitimize se.
On the one hand, it is a more logical procedure and there can be no errors like in YouTubeOn the other hand, many users will certainly object to having to prove their maturity. This "teen-by-default" environment will be introduced since the beginning of MarchIf you refuse to submit your video Selfie or document, this will have consequences:
- disabling access to age-restricted servers and channels
- inability to actively use Stage channels
- blurring of sensitive content
- a separate mailbox for messages from people you don't know
if Discord If it finds any signs that current users are not adults, it can also ask them to verify. Which I think is very reasonable, because the network can become very risky for young people. After all, Discord has struggled with this in the recent past. controversial cases, when closed groups with pornographic materials abusing the privacy of strangers were discovered on it. If you interact with similar servers, verification will probably soon apply to you as well.
