Comment by adastra22
1 day ago
Companies like OpenAI are advocating for this because it shifts the burden of responsibility off them. They don’t have to age verifying Microsoft is handling that for them.
1 day ago
Companies like OpenAI are advocating for this because it shifts the burden of responsibility off them. They don’t have to age verifying Microsoft is handling that for them.
As a startup owner, if there has to be age verification, then I'm all for doing that at the OS level. As a human with privacy concerns, I'll continue using Linux.
I think doing this on an OS level might be the most privacy focused way to do this but the issue is that this is not going to be the way this is implemented.
Like, I’m not American and in Germany we have ID cards that actually have your age encoded on an NFC chip in the card and an ID number that encodes the age. Like, age is part of the ID number and checksum.
You could totally do all of this age verification offline on device and just expose an API that offers the age of the user to applications. You’d never need to talk to the internet for this, the API just says if you are a minor or adult, the browser can pass that to websites who don’t need to collect personal data and everything is fine.
But that’s not going to happen. It’s gonna be some AI facial recognition kinda garbage that is gonna send your face in every angle to Apple or Microsoft or another third party.
As is common these days they are going to try really hard to absolve you as the user of any responsibility for the sake of protecting kids so they can’t let this be a simple offline thing where your personal information never ever have to leave the device because what if kids find a way around it? Well the obvious answer is don’t let your kids just use a computer without supervision but if people would do that we’d not be in need of this garbage anyway.
> Well the obvious answer is don’t let your kids just use a computer without supervision
have you literally ever met a kid?
Why do you think you will still be able to install Linux?
Whatever you're talking about there has effectively nothing to do with this law.
So basically, you have no morals? Weird thing to admit online, but whatever.
That's a really random take on my comment. I'm not sure where you got "you have no morals" from my comment, but maybe you are trolling me?
I'm not the one making laws about age verification, so I'm not sure how you get off blaming me for anything.
You’re on hacker news, a double digit percentage of posters think that doing whatever you can get away with is moral.
Look at the thread on Block’s layoffs while they are profitable.
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