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Give Us Your Face or Lose Your Account: AI Age Verification Is Here, and Experts Are Worried (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 2 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Then I'll lose my account.

You know, using privacy-first services, de-googling and self-hosting has really insulated me from a lot of the Internet problems. Cloudflare went down? Didn't notice. AWS crashed? I'm using co-location and local hosting. Microsoft decided to put AI in Windows and turn the telemetry to 11? I'm using Linux (Arch, btw).

If I don't give my ID to them, then I lose nothing. What services are they offering in exchange? Social media full of bots and toxic political propaganda. Streaming sites which are fragmented, expensive and enshittified.

I'm just not seeing the value offer that they're providing.