There is a 0% chance that AI can accurately determine if someone is 18 or not, even with hypothetical futuristic AI technology. Some 20-year-olds look very young. Some 16-year-olds look shockingly old. And nobody changes very significantly between the day of their 18th birthday and the day they were 17 years, 364 days.
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simply connect it to a facial recognition database (I understand the UK are quite fond of such)
Yeah but that doesn’t mean they work.
To be fair, that at least is hypothetically possible. Working out someone’s age exactly purely based on their face is not even possible, so you can argue against it very easily from a purely technical standpoint.
Facial recognition with a database is quite good today, and will only get better. To argue against that you need to start getting into the privacy and ethical arguments.
To quote the Simpsons: “0% is a percentage as well!” And that will be more than enough for politicians who know nothing about the topic and are blinded by the hot tech-buzzword of the minute (especially if it turns out they or some of their friends can make a shitload of money with it. I love capitalism and democracy.)
As an outside observer, UK politicians (even Conservatives) seem to tend to be a bit better at this sort of thing than American or Australian (“the laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia”) politicians. There’s a much stronger tendency for their back benchers to vote against the party line than we have, too, which is great for deliberative democracy.
Hell, even 13-15 year olds are looking much older. I genuinely saw one in normal clothes, took a guess based on her being around maybe 20. Saw her a day later in school uniform. And only under 16’s wear them.
Really did make me realise I am shit at age guessing.
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The UK should stick to things they know, like tea, comedy shows, fox hunting, and unelected MPs.
The government says selfies for AI verification are to “protect” children from such content but in reality we know it’s all to create a database with biometric hashes of everyone and create the long-awaited dystopia of 24/7 mass surveillance. The government that completes the task first comes out ahead, and it seems that China is winning the dispute
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And since this is the UK we’re talking about, you know they’re gonna use that data to track who’s trans and persecute them
Wonder if 80% of the images submitted will be photos of Zuckerburg
I hate this timeline.
Soon they will be wanting dick pics.
I’d actually have less qualms with that then sending a porn site my face. It’s amazing that they think this will go down well.
What’s the porn site going to do when AI determines that a 15 year old is over 18?
“Judge, I swear the AI said she was 18!”
time to buy a fake mustache hehe
UK really wants to databank humanity so they can just pull file’s and dictate from their. Are you sure the UK right wing isn’t an undercover database?
Classic - clearly some British politicians have shares in a facial AI company.
