Technology

Yes. Yesterday's hot shit was to make everyone put in their phone number to sign up to stuff. Happens to be a nice long-living tracking ID. Today we're at outright showing IDs. And I guess there aren't many more invasive steps left after that. Unless they find a reason to install a camera in my bathroom or something... There's always a new bandwagon. Now it's age-verification. And I'm sure that's bound to destroy many more things we have when they roll it out to more services and countries.... Not that I think protecting children isn't a noble cause. But I highly doubt that's why they do it. It's more to normalize absolute control by big tech, abolishment of privacy... That's why they do it. And OpenAI is part of that. Fortunately I don't rely on their services, I'll just quit. But it's going to be a sad day once they do the same to my Google/Youtube account and a few other ones.

I mean it's super obvious that the process of showing an ID card into a camera is probably not going to stop someone from harming themselves... And if they cared for this teenager, well maybe they would have done something after the hundredth report? or the 200th? or the 300th?? Obviously there's already a system in place for this exact thing. But that might not be the goal here.

I'm a bit sad the article doesn't call them out for that and instead engages with OpenAIs (probably) fake arguments.