- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
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This is a clever way to bypass. If they get wise and somehow filter out Sam Porter Bridges’ face, you could always fire up any of the games of comparable visual realism which let you design your own character’s appearance.
Just get an AI to generate a face. If it’s prepared to accept photos from video games and it’ll probably accept AI generated images.
Not really that I expected competence.
https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ for the rescue.
From what the article says the app watches you while you change expressions as prompted, so you can’t use AI-generated still images. That’s why using a game’s photo mode, where you can toggle the CG facial expression around in real time while pointing your camera at it, is such a clever solution.
It’s not just the realistic appearance, it’s the fact you can make the character do the specific expressions required, like opening your mouth etc
The one thing AI might be good for
To be fair, the game’s rated 18+ in the UK. In terms of the law, this probably doesn’t suffice. But theoretically, there still is a kind of age-check in place :'D
That game is going to get really popular now with some folks not even playing it. lol
This age verification thing is so stupid but it’s good to know it can be bypassed this easily!! not gonna dox myself I care about my privacy 🤘 hope enough people rebel against this measure gets overturned bc it shows this country doesn’t care about people’s privacy online which is ironic considering the name
It’s fun that one can use games for it, but it shouldn’t be difficult to do the same through AI-generated imagery either, which isn’t much more difficult.
Even though this method is flawed, one shouldn’t really use ID-only verification either imho, as it’s a security risk to upload any official document like that (ref. Tea app leaks).
The whole age verification that the UK wants to impose has been quite the impossible task from the beginning. Creating government-backed education for (future) parents about how to raise a kid and protect them in today’s digital society would be more efficient than this, if we really are thinking of what is best for the kids. But alas, there are zero requirements to become a parent…
No it’s okay they promise they definitely delete all photographs as soon as you’re verified. They totally don’t keep them around in an insecure format or anything like that. They promise.
The problem, as always, is that parents don’t want to put the work into educating their children, they want the government to wave a magic wand and make the problem go away. And that’s what gets you half assed solutions like this.
The OSA is nothing to do with kids or parenting and everything to do with further developing surveillance of the UK and controlling what we can access.
I guarantee you, at some point after this will come prohibiting content deemed terrorism such as mentions of the word ‘palestine’ and ‘action’ in the same paragraph for example.
Sooner or later we’ll have our own pseudo or real great firewall. I expect them to come after VPN use at some point too.
VPNs are next.
People circumventing the OSA.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
VPNs banned
Tbh just take any stock photo from image search online
I think the issue there is the k-ID software asks you to do things like open your mouth, then close your mouth - so you’d need to find stock photos of the same person doing stuff like that. Which, now that I think about it, I imagine there will be an influx of selfies of people with closed and open mouths available on google images very soon.
These took 5 minutes to make
Honestly we should just move on to device based attestation and if parents want to protect their kids they set up child mode.
I’m not responsible for lazy parenting.
Open my mouth? That is so fucking repulsive I can’t describe it in words.
The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!
I guess soon there will be only the more intrusive/trackable options like credit card or bank details.
Then come the hacks and abuses (executives and politicians not excluded) and we are back to square one, except that everybody and the innocents lost something while the cybercrime syndicates had a field day.
I don’t think credit cards are more intrusive than forced selfies, to the contrary.
I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a utopia.
