404 Media previously reported kids said they were using photos of Trump and G-Man from Half Life to bypass the age verification software in the popular VR game Gorilla Tag. That game uses the service k–ID, which is the same as what Discord is using.

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[+] 200 points 7 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)
  • [–] 79 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.

    The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    reminds me of how way back in middle school i made a mmo-styled chat world in nothing but a shared google sheet. it lasted 2 weeks before the teachers had to ruin the fun for everyone (their excuse was that people typed slurs in it, but that's bs because I would erase their edits and permanently ban them within minutes). i would also share obfuscated links to games and such on a hidden page, good times.

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  • [–] 78 points 7 months ago

    Lmao I didn't had "bypassing corpo surveillance with a vtuber software" on my 2026 bingo

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  • [–] 55 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    And thus begins the three-legged race between imaged-based age verification and kids. (Prediction: the kids will win, but it will take the other side a looooong time to admit it.)

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    [–] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    FOSS

    Pick the best replacement option and run with it.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Have they learned nothing since people used screenshots of death stranding the first this technology was used on a major platform?

    If it works with such basic 3d models then what is stopping people from using an ai generated or stolen picture?

    Kinda makes me think the goal is not to keep kids safe, its to avoid accountability when kids end up not being safe.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I saw someone painted their thumb with basic facial lineament and they move their thumb when the prompt asks for it. It guesses that as 13-15 years old, even though the paint has a beard. lol

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    Cool that it is possible but I rather ditch Discord when this is forced upon me.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    The companies get to fulfill their legal obligation, and the kids who can figure it out unlock the reward of an uncensored community. No one’s IDs are compromised in the process.

    Win / win?

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    how about just NOT using discord?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Did these people forget Vtubers exist? Using a camera/Vr goggles to map one face to another? It's just going to need a phone app, a good 3d model and shader generator, and a big screen and you can be whoever you want.

    Even faster if they use AI filters.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Someone had made a bypass hack that didn't even need 3D anything, only generated metadata, but the ID vendor has patched it: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    This post is for paid members only

    Here you go, mates.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    That‘s honestly less surprising or impressive than people using Death Stranding for that.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    The…sims? We are fighting this rot with the sims basically?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Good. And lets hope it's not even the only one.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Alright. But how do we stop the AI spyware from constantly monitoring our activity?

    Might not be an issue for me since I'm using the flatpak of Vesktop, but getting all my none-technical friends to move away from Discord will be pain.

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