Privacy technologies
fromThe Verge
5 days agoAge verification is a mess but we're doing it anyway
Age verification methods on the internet are flawed, leading to challenges in effectively preventing underage access to inappropriate content.
The BBC and researchers from the independent AI publication Riddance found dozens of accounts on the two platforms featuring highly sexualised black female digital characters or avatars. The images and videos were generated by AI but not labelled as such, in apparent breach of the platforms' guidelines.
The song and its choice by Romania/Eurovision and promotion by those organisations represents a reckless normalisation of a dangerous practice. It's playing fast and loose with young women's lives. The emerging medical evidence is that frequent sexual strangulation is giving young women brain damage.