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Users claim Discord's age verification test can be tricked with game characters (www.thepinknews.com)
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Discord users are claiming that you can use pictures of video game characters to bypass the platform's new age verification checks.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The 2019 video game also comes with a picture mode, which allows the player to change Sam’s facial expression, allowing the user to bypass a secondary check which requires a person to open and close their mouth to make sure they are a “real person.”

Surely someone will develop an app to create a face and animate it in just the ways these checks require. Or one of the AI video generators could do it. And then we'll be into another arms race, but the kids will still have access to adult websites. This will just enable surveillance of anyone hapless enough to upload their actual ID.