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404 Media previously reported kids said they were using photos of Trump and G-Man from Half Life to bypass the age verification software in the popular VR game Gorilla Tag. That game uses the service k–ID, which is the same as what Discord is using.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Have they learned nothing since people used screenshots of death stranding the first this technology was used on a major platform?

If it works with such basic 3d models then what is stopping people from using an ai generated or stolen picture?

Kinda makes me think the goal is not to keep kids safe, its to avoid accountability when kids end up not being safe.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 45 minutes ago

I saw someone painted their thumb with basic facial lineament and they move their thumb when the prompt asks for it. It guesses that as 13-15 years old, even though the paint has a beard. lol

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It was not screenshots. The entire point of the Death Stranding thing was that you had a live camera feed of a face that passes the "liveliness" checks that prevent you from using static pictures.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago

Oh that detail is a TIL