YouTube to begin testing a new AI-powered age verification system in the U.S. (apnews.com)

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[-] marlowe221@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

My YouTube account is old enough to vote at this point…

[-] iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago

As others have reported, YouTube doesn't give a shit about account age. It's based on what you watch.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

age is a just a cover for controlling what you can see akin to "won't somebody please think about the children!!!"

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Floppies are superior, fite me on that

[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

So it's off to PeerTube then, I guess? People could post the same video on both (yt and pt), and then on yt write something like "why not watch this on PeerTube instead?" although it'd probably get taken down.

[-] zen_killoran@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I’ll be waiting, you can only check the age of my eggs

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How old are your eggs?

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Save us Hideo Kojima.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/brits-can-get-around-discords-age-verification-thanks-to-death-strandings-photo-mode-bypassing-the-measure-introduced-with-the-uks-online-safety-act-we-tried-it-and-it-works-thanks-kojima/

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised the toy market & microtransaction industries are not aggressively fighting this. YouTube has been the primary way for them to reach kids for the past decade.

[-] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Sick, you can check my elderly face from thispersondoesntexist

[-] m__a__b@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

For an excellent, and hilarious, take on this, check out Venus Theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7INRHrObI

[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

😂

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Good thing I don't use YouTube anymore because they block me for using an ad blocker even though it doesn't do much on YouTube since they switched to serving ads natively.

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