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Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

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Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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Such an unfathomably stupid idea to use facial recognition for this. It would be funny if it weren't so dangerous.
- This is a fascist tool of surveillance capitalism, which will be sold off to data brokers and rolled into big brother sooner than later.
- "but but but . . . think about the children! and not the facial recognition data we're collecting"

The great thing about the kind of idiots that pass these stupid laws is that they are idiots.
The terrible thing is that since they are idiots they won't see this as proof that the law is stupid but instead that they should make the law stupider.
- HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THEY ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN APPLY A BANDAID?!
  
  "Hmm, better criminalise this 'death stranding' hacker programme too."
  ~ Government

That image is hilarious.
What a joke.

Damn there's a whole bunch of Norman Resdus' in the UK.

So let me try and think this out.
Norman Resdus' face is used to get around this crap ----> they filter out Norman's face ----> poor Norman Resdus can no longer use UK internet.
- Couldn't he get a VPN?
  
  Could not everyone? Then the internet will crawl

Well, now its government ID or straight to jail.
Another 80’s “unbelievable conspiracy theory” now (or soon) law. Hey if you get the subdermal chip its so convenient.

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
- I assume the reason this specific tool was mentioned is that the "selfie" requires the person to be striking a specific pose. I estimate less than a week until something like the site you linked comes out which is able to do custom poses.
  
  You can already generate 5s video for free with adobe firefly (two daily), and for static images, you could already do them for a long time on commodity hardware with your custom prompts.
  This isn't a fight they lost quickly, this is a fight they lost before showing up, but still showed up.
  
  Using controlnets you can already make an ai image do whatever pose you want
  https://stable-diffusion-art.com/controlnet/

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a repatriate full of cryptobiotes.

It's like ad blockers. They allow the clever people who could give an opposition movement some teeth an easy way out. Too few fight now and when they activate the better filters, everything will be tightened up.

you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone
Do you actually need the phone or can you use a screenshot?
Also, if they're accessing Baldur's Gate 3 fan fiction, shouldn't they have used the photo mode from Baldur's Gate 3? Surely no one is more entitled to read Minthara erotica than Minthara herself.
- You likely can’t use a screenshot because it’s a static image
  
  Good thing there's tools now to make a static image move.
- Pretty sure it needs a live camera to access. It's less a photo and more a video.

I know this is a bit different. I'm in the UK and there's a few sites I use which can't implement the age verification due to being a small team so they've straight up banned all UK traffic.
VPN to another EU location seems to work. I'm actually surprised it was that easy. It also works on a bunch of sites I wish not to have an account. Not all, but most.
The politicians who passed this are either clueless morons or are using this to push some other agenda (no idea what).

Cyberpunk in fiction vs this

Identity theft is not a joke, but sure is useful.

And i title that caught my eye after the article :
Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods
SHIT

Yet another Kojima W

This is untrue. I can't do this because I can't convince the verification tool that my phone really has a camera, so I can't show it Norman Reedus.

If I understand this correctly, according to UK government's logic, Discord's actions are comparable to a store selling alcohol to (potentially) thousands of minors who are wearing fake beards. What sort of punishment shall befall them for this misdeed, I wonder...

Didn't Discord add this before the UK law, tho? And can this work around be used for other photo verification things on other sites?
- Anecdotally, I'm in the UK and Discord has never asked me for ID. I don't have nitro, though, so if it's a nitro thing I would not know
  
  I've only been asked for an ID by actual human people running a discord server if I wanted to get access to their NSFW rooms. Not even by Discord itself.
  I didn't give it to the actual server ops, and I definitely wouldn't give it to Discord itself. I don't need to use a chatroom to get porn.

I think one of the age ID things needs to detect movement. I tried it with a still photo of Kier Starmer and it wouldn't have it. I'll have to experiment.
- according to the article it wants you to open and close your mouth, which the death stranding photo mode is easily capable of. you might also be able to do it with other games, or AI photo->video of your favorite politicians, preprogrammed to move around a bit and then open and close its mouth a few seconds later.
  
  They're asking everyone to act like buffoon while striking poses in front of their phone instead of addressing the core issue. Great.

Incredible. Always good to hear some positivity in the news.

”Criminals, the lot of you!”

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