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I think there are actually several reasons why this is a likely direction: 1. Children (duh, this article) 2. Misinformation (accountability, no astroturfing)
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
I think there are actually several reasons why this is a likely direction:
1. Children (duh, this article)
2. Misinformation (accountability, no astroturfing)
3. Misinformation Robots (age verifying robots is a difficult task)
4. Malicious Robots (do you need Cloudflare if you have an Age ID Firewall?)
5. Scraping Robots (nothing prevents scraping like knowing who to sue...)
6. Hackers (nothing prevents hacking like knowing who to sue, even if it's only 80% of the time...)
7. AI Use / Abuse (anonymity is a dangerous thing with AI)
Etc. To be honest, if I was an Age ID verification company, I'd be calling around to my competition to figure out how to develop some kind of interoperability standard; in the hopes that would make age-restricted services much more convenient and thus widespread. Now if they could get Billing integrated into the system as well, then we're cooking with gas.
- Belopolye 3y ago8. Industry is desperate to destroy piracy. On top of all of your reasons.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoTragically, it works both ways. 8. Destroy privacy of anonymous users. 9. Increase privacy by preventing reposting (by robots or trolls) of information that a court has ordered suppressed. (Example from the near future: AI-generated revenge porn.) 10. Increase privacy by preventing companies like Clearview AI from legally getting away with murder of privacy. Edit for Belopolye's response below: Very good point; but that would require all websites to be in on it and not just a partial implementation. But the movie and video game industries would love that...
- Belopolye 3y agoAutocorrect got me- I meant to type piracy. Updated my comment :)
- hooverd 3y agoIndustry is desperate to destroy general purpose computing.