I’ll slightly nitpick the claim about the central ID register, because you can do a lot of this stuff decentralized with smart IDs.
I imagine it works like this: You somehow get your hands on a certificate that reads “yo, the controller of the key pair with public key a4c6… is over 18 - signed, new south wales records agency”. You hook up your smart card to pass some cryptographic test, and voilá: you proved you have the ID of an adult and know their PIN.
Not that I advocate for IDing everytime you visit a website, but I guess I’d be fine with it for ordering weed online. I expect we’ll get something like it in the EU, if we decide not to go full fucking surveillance state.
What I hate about all these new AI verification services is that I wouldn’t even be surprised if they are using verification data and pictures to train their own AI models. Wasn’t there a video on Lemmy somewhere the other day where it showed the AI company Discord was using? They went to their website and it was full of AI generated images and I think even text. I wonder where they got all that training data from… 🤔
Why don’t they just hire a wizard to cast an anti-tiktok spell over all of Australia instead? It would be just as workable and I know a guy who swears he can do it for cheaper than whatever server costs they’re gonna try and push.
anyone know of an applicable rpg spell here. I want to know how much this would cost
"Say you do a peace sign then a fist to the camera. It follows your hand movements. And medical research has shown based on your hand movement, it can identify your age.
This appears to be a gross distortion of a paper from AI company Haut.AI, who market an “AI skincare solution” to the beauty industry. The paper claimed to predict ages from hands and faces of Indian women. [Haut.AI; Wiley]"
Never change, Australia.
Even if this was 100% accurate, which it obviously can’t be, what’s stopping someone who’s under 16 from just using someone else’s hand? Seems little better than the classic verification method of entering your birth date.
The elderly hand market is about to see a steep increase in purchases. What about all the elderly who will loose their hands, we all saw how bad it was when people were stealing catalytic converters. 😓
/s since a chunk of users can’t read sarcasm lol.
Wow. Literally hand-waving (and I mean “literally” in the literal way). I wonder what spurious correlation they’ll come up with next.
Within 3-days every child in Australia will know how to fool this thing.
Just hand wave it all away.
