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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 17 days ago

Roblox begins asking tens of millions of children to verify their age with a selfie

www.engadget.com

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Roblox begins asking tens of millions of children to verify their age with a selfie

www.engadget.com

alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 17 days ago
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Roblox is starting to roll out the mandatory age checks that will require all of its users to submit an ID or scan their face in order to access the platform's chat features.
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    … to access chat features.

    I’m going to go ahead and click ‘No’

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    How nice to ask kids who cannot consent to share pictures with that company…

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    No? Still no flags popping up? Bells ringing? Alright, I’m sure this is fine too. It’s keeping an eye on protecting the kids at least.

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      But we obviously can’t protect the kids if we don’t know who they are and therefore must have a database of all their faces.

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        Yeah, I’m sure that couldn’t possibly exist for ulterior motives. Bunch of fucking creeps.

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    Getting an early start on cataloging with facial recognition.

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    Pedo app asking for pictures of children. Ban Roblox already, Jesus Crist.

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    deleted by creator

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    Looks like they are building a menu…

    • KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Release the Roblox Files!

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    How will it combat AI generated profile pictures? They’re literally everywhere now, I’m seeing them in brainrot mobile games even.

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      Probably with a different AI that’s trained to spot that. Realistically, they won’t.

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      Well it’ll improve the AI profile pics to the point that you won’t recognize it’s AI. Can’t be mad at AI images if you don’t recognize 'em

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    What could go wrong

  • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml
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    “Sir, people keep using our service to get children to send them selfies! What do we do?”

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      Too many kids know not to send pics to strangers, so now the Roblox devs gotta log off their alts and use power instead of deception.

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    Sounds like a great plan to me. I see no way this could go wrong.

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    Yum yum, get those kiddy pics!

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      i’m sure this is sarcasm but i’m still going to assume you’re a pedophile

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        👍

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    I’m disappointed this wasn’t the onion when I had to check.

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    What could possibly go wrong?

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    There are too many people on the internet, let alone children.

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