This person’s comment describes, I think aptly, why we need to do more than just say “ID verification is dangerous”, despite it being 100% true and necessary to say. And some good ideas on ID alternatives from the same thread here to consider: Transperancy on what data was used to determine the kind of ad you’re seeing, clearer marking of sponsorships/ad placement, legal frameworks to have tech companies change to have LLMs cite sources more accurately to reduce misinformation.
The idea of building this into our core infrastructure where we give up the ability to control it ourselves is the really fucking scary part.
In the EU for example they are using single use tokens.
If you want to go to a site that requires age verification, you maybe have 10 tokens, and you give them one.
When you run out of tokens, you have to ask the government for more.
That’s a huge risk built into our system now where the government can arbitrarily stop issuing tokens to individuals, or at large, and just lock that content off like a kill switch, and it would be at their discretion.
e.g Government: Oh, your using too many adult tokens… we won’t issue any more until next month!
Or what if something around issuing tokens is taken down in a cyber attack and everyones usage is disrupted.
It’s a governments wet dream to have this level of control built into the infrastructure, no matter what kind of safeguards they claim to have.
This person’s comment describes, I think aptly, why we need to do more than just say “ID verification is dangerous”, despite it being 100% true and necessary to say. And some good ideas on ID alternatives from the same thread here to consider: Transperancy on what data was used to determine the kind of ad you’re seeing, clearer marking of sponsorships/ad placement, legal frameworks to have tech companies change to have LLMs cite sources more accurately to reduce misinformation.
Ya, that’s probably a good idea.
The idea of building this into our core infrastructure where we give up the ability to control it ourselves is the really fucking scary part.
In the EU for example they are using single use tokens.
If you want to go to a site that requires age verification, you maybe have 10 tokens, and you give them one.
When you run out of tokens, you have to ask the government for more.
That’s a huge risk built into our system now where the government can arbitrarily stop issuing tokens to individuals, or at large, and just lock that content off like a kill switch, and it would be at their discretion.
e.g Government: Oh, your using too many adult tokens… we won’t issue any more until next month!
Or what if something around issuing tokens is taken down in a cyber attack and everyones usage is disrupted.
It’s a governments wet dream to have this level of control built into the infrastructure, no matter what kind of safeguards they claim to have.