2y ago

ESRB plans “facial age estimation” checker for age verification

www.dexerto.com ESRB plans “facial age estimation” checker for age verification - Dexerto

The ESRB has proposed a new concept to allow for better parental control over kids playing video games.

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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Because this strategy worked so well for determining individuals' assigned sex at birth. What could possibly go wrong?
- 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.
- Well, assigning age at birth worked well so far…
  
  The craziest coincidence, everyone I've asked was assigned the same age at birth. Small world.
  
  Depends on where you’re from. Koreans count you as one year old when you’re born.
  
  Aren't they dropping that system soon?
- 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.

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