What you mean there clear and comprehensive announcement? Yeah that didn’t happen, this is on them.
They still haven’t really provided any information. They say most users won’t have to verify, how many is “most”.
Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
This is misleading. Discord is not reversing course. It was in their original announcement that they would try to automatically determine everyone’s age and “most” people won’t need to do any sort of verification.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
other_cat@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Agree headline is misleading. “Walking Back” implies reversing course, that is not happening.
Plus we all know how great AI age verification is. Big empty “reassurance” there.
hobovision@mander.xyz 4 days ago
Yes, they aren’t changing course, but Discord certainly did not say “most” in the announcement and it was a single sentence in a long article about age verification and content gating. They should have been far more upfront about their inference method being the primary one in the first place. This was a communication issue and not a reader issue.
It’s also possible they decided to tune their inference model to be a lot more, let’s say, permissive so that there isn’t a huge backlash of people getting asked to provide ID when they’ve been using the service for nearly a decade or longer.