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When I was 8, I remember being bored and curious and touching a lot of parents stuff... phones... wallets... legal documents...

Most parents don't put their stuff in safes...

Like... THE WALLET IS RIGHT THERE... I COULD JUST GRAB IT!

If they had age verification stuff back then... I could've just... quickly snap a pic of their ID and just YOLO it...

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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 37 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Most age verification providers also require video with the person's face doing specific movements, which is then matched with the ID, so stealing an ID probably wouldn't be enough.

Not that it'll stop kids from trying, and sending their parent's ID to some random sketchy company without their knowledge anyways.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 26 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Google/Youtube only requires either a selfie or an ID...

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 6 points 21 hours ago

Hence why I said most.

Regardless though, you know they're gonna up the ante as they go. The more normalized it becomes to share more data, the easier it is for them to ask everyone for it too.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Ok. AI of their dads face, doing those movements.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 6 points 21 hours ago

Could work. A lot of the time these current systems have... dubious liveness checks.

Over time they're definitely going to get better, though, and I have a feeling that with AI watermarking being baked into a lot of the actually good models, it's not going to be super reliable or repeatable.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Change ID photo of dad's face to yours