Summary
Several U.S. states have enacted laws requiring pornography sites, such as PornHub, to implement age verification to prevent minors’ access, prompting the site’s parent company, Aylo, to block access in affected states.
Proponents argue these laws protect children, while critics highlight privacy risks, inefficiencies, and potential censorship.
These measures reflect growing social conservatism, with some advocates aiming to restrict adult content broadly.
While privacy-focused age verification methods exist, regulatory clarity is lacking.
Critics warn these laws may suppress responsible platforms, favoring unregulated alternatives, and escalate broader culture wars around sexuality and LGBTQ+ rights.
No. Fuck no. Just… wow.
I rate they’re intending to keep those photos, but will stop when an exec with a little bit of humanity has a change of heart after checking the database when he realises he is looking into the eyes of a unkempt man with visible depression who is going to spend the next 15 minutes trying to settle on a video and another two minutes masturbating.
It might stop when the DB gets compromised and some exec gets threatened with the release of all his weird kinks going public.
You know you really didn’t have to call me out so viscerally like that.
What stops you from taking a picture of a picture of some random adult’s face?
Everyone should just upload a picture of Trump.
Fuck that rando, I guess?
Just generate a fake face with some generative tool.
Or, you know, be as appalled by this as I am and complain loudly. Maybe if enough of us do it it’ll become more trouble than it’s worth.
Rando? I’d use a face of Trump or Musk or some other public figure.
Hahaha how easy it will be to fool the AI.
Why? Just take a picture of your neighbor.
Yes, for example. Not sure what the “why” is supposed to be for? At what point to you disagree?
I meant that there’s no need to fool the ai, the system is fundamentally flawed from the start.
So to you it is not fooling the AI if you present someone else? Where would fooling start?
In my experience these type of verifications require you to look forward, then to the right, then to the left, acquiring a 3 dimensional data plot. Which cannot be done with a picture. Maybe if you had 3 pictures.
“Why does your son carry around a mannequin?”
So everybody looks like the picture on Epstein’s Wikipedia now? How dumb is this?
Just like the tsa deleted all the body scan images after the subject left the scanner.