Discord age verification last night happily told me that I appear to be a teenager.

Abie

@cstross Teen-by-default policy is certainly a err... choice
https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

OldCoder

You're young at heart, I'm sure, and most likely walk with a spring in your step. Perhaps they've detected that.

Scott Johnson / FutureFarmer

@cstross May I point out that Peter Thiel and Palantir are one of the funders of their "age verification tech".

Charlie Stross

@fuzzygroup This is my shocked face:

craignicol

@cstross @otfrom https://youtube.com/shorts/xsj4VrRcyZs

Angie B

@cstross @fuzzygroup which they'd probably also categorise as a teenager

Richard Lucas

@cstross how long until the teenage / beardy face is in the next Discord third party verification data breach

Andrew Deacon

@cstross Sh, Sycophantic AI.

Charlie Stross

@craignicol @otfrom That's a video. I don't do video. What does it say?

Jernej Simončič �

@cstross I used the bypass before they killed it luckily.

craignicol

@cstross @otfrom it's a video that shows someone drew a face on their thumb, and used that for the discord id, and discord accepted it and said they were 12-15. There's a lot of other videos showing how easily it can be fooled.