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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Summary

Several U.S. states have enacted laws requiring pornography sites, such as PornHub, to implement age verification to prevent minors' access, prompting the site’s parent company, Aylo, to block access in affected states.

Proponents argue these laws protect children, while critics highlight privacy risks, inefficiencies, and potential censorship.

These measures reflect growing social conservatism, with some advocates aiming to restrict adult content broadly.

While privacy-focused age verification methods exist, regulatory clarity is lacking.

Critics warn these laws may suppress responsible platforms, favoring unregulated alternatives, and escalate broader culture wars around sexuality and LGBTQ+ rights.

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[-] natecox@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

With this method, users take a photo of their face which is then analyzed by AI to estimate their age. Tombs says this involves no analysis of the user’s actual identity, and that all photos are deleted once the check is finished. Hence, neither Yoti nor the porn site ever needs to know who you are.

No. Fuck no. Just… wow.

[-] Railing5132@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Just like the tsa deleted all the body scan images after the subject left the scanner.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

What stops you from taking a picture of a picture of some random adult's face?

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone should just upload a picture of Trump.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or even better, use

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Put an AI up against their AI.

[-] nick@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Liveness detection.

[-] scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 month ago

Or an AI generated one even

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So everybody looks like the picture on Epstein's Wikipedia now? How dumb is this?

[-] DurbanPoison@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago

I rate they're intending to keep those photos, but will stop when an exec with a little bit of humanity has a change of heart after checking the database when he realises he is looking into the eyes of a unkempt man with visible depression who is going to spend the next 15 minutes trying to settle on a video and another two minutes masturbating.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

when an exec with a little bit of humanity has a change of heart

[-] natecox@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

It might stop when the DB gets compromised and some exec gets threatened with the release of all his weird kinks going public.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Hahaha how easy it will be to fool the AI.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Why? Just take a picture of your neighbor.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In my experience these type of verifications require you to look forward, then to the right, then to the left, acquiring a 3 dimensional data plot. Which cannot be done with a picture. Maybe if you had 3 pictures.

"Why does your son carry around a mannequin?"

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