I will go against the grain and say that I am happy that Discord is doing something about the NSFW content that is being fed to children on its platform. I don't use Discord that much personally but I heard from friends that it is a goto for NSFW content, similar to reddit.
Every time the topic of ID for 18+ content comes up, the entire internet melts down over "big brother" and "privacy", yet no one flinches at presenting ID for alcohol at the store. And further more, nobody offers an alternative solution the problem. Status quo isn't acceptable. "Kids will always find a way to bypass measures/access their porn", is also not an acceptable answer.
We as a society need to do something about the unprecedented levels of porn addiction in today's youth. "Enter your date of birth" prompts are performative and do nothing.
I will say I am usually the first person to oppose any sort of government overreach, I am very pro privacy.
I believe the energy put into the criticism and boycott of Discord should be put into finding solutions for verifying ID in a secure and private manner online. Something like Apple Pay for IDs?
I think the issue here is that companies (and govs) are choosing the worst possible solitions to a real problem because it benefits them. Gov wants it for control, companies want it to sell ads and mine data. They team up, and screw everyone over while overlooking other viable solitions
> We as a society need to do something about the unprecedented levels of porn addiction in today's youth. "Enter your date of birth" prompts are performative and do nothing.
I agree, however show your ID is just a "Enter your date of birth" prompt with obfuscation.
Buying alcohol is physical and therefore has some advantages, for example you can be sure that your ID is not copied/sold as you are there and get it back.
In another comment the idea was presented to make a "I am adult" card you can buy (physical like the alcohol). I think that would work a lot better than upload your government id and face to random app/website.
Maybe I'm old school but I was always told "don't make a copy of your ID" by the government, a photo was included in that definition.
I believe what you said is correct and this headline is incredibly misleading. Most people should not need to upload any ID. If you are so addicted to NSFW content on Discord, then it is a different story.
I'm in a small server that's marked NSFW, not because the purpose is to share porn, but because without the server owner checking that box, Discord with use content filters wherever it deems necessary.
Lots of servers just hit the nsfw checkbox to avoid the discord nanny tsk tsking them all the time.
I would have to verify my ID to talk to those friends.
Sure but at least it protects against unauthorized free-for-all access on your host system. If you want to explicitly give it access to external APIs over the internet that's a risk you personally are taking. It's really smart to run something like this in a sandbox, especially in the current beta/experimentation phase.
I understand your concerns and I too have my concerns which is why the goal is not to try to replace the usage of the Quran, scholars or our own need to seek knowledge. We can't shy away from the use of new technology but we should also be cautious. I cite references that are used for the search context and those are visible. Essentially one should not offload their reasoning to a machine but something that has the ability to search a knowledge base and offer summarisation is a valuable tool. Again not a replacement for scholars or students it knowledge. But something to consider.
Yea I mean they are financially doing better than any group of companies at any time in human history, kind of like the exact opposite of this downhill claim
Even with Googles monopoly legal issues, they are more valuable than ever.
Sure, why don't I pop down to the spouse shop and pick one out from their extensive range?
There are almost no marriageable women around these days. Having $ does make getting laid very easy, but I'm not interested in that. Unfortunately it doesn't help at all in finding one of the good ones (perhaps it makes it even harder).
If I guess his views correctly and mix them with mine: women with an exemplary life hygiene - maintaining a near perfect body, no addiction or unhealthy obsession of any sort (tobacco, alcohol, drugs, TV, social medias, smartphones, travels, pets, etc...), chaste compared to nowadays' standard libertinage - intelligent and cultured (and I'm not talking about pop culture).
> When there is such a rich database of manual pages and q/a about these tools, I tend to blame the user rather than the tool when I hear it called "too complex".
Strong disagree. The example they gave about ffmpeg is a great example. Let's say I'm a casual ffmpeg user that wants to wrangle some videos one way or another.
I don't have the time to dig through ffmpeg's manual with tons of different options and terms that I don't understand just to figure out, as a trivial example, how to convert an mp4 to an mp3 while maintaining the best quality possible. I have 0 interest in learning about media formats, codecs, etc. I just want the result. This is not unreasonable.
With ChatGPT/Claude/etc, this is an even more trivial task. Nothing wrong with that. I'm willing to take the (minimal) risk of running an ffmpeg command while taking a common sense glance at it. It won't destroy my existing file. Or I'll run it on a copy if I'm being paranoid. I'm not dumb enough to destroy my machine or get some malware by running an unfamiliar ffmpeg command I copy pasted.
My #1 usage for LLMs is bash/zsh commands. Shell syntax is miserable to say the least.
Every time the topic of ID for 18+ content comes up, the entire internet melts down over "big brother" and "privacy", yet no one flinches at presenting ID for alcohol at the store. And further more, nobody offers an alternative solution the problem. Status quo isn't acceptable. "Kids will always find a way to bypass measures/access their porn", is also not an acceptable answer.
We as a society need to do something about the unprecedented levels of porn addiction in today's youth. "Enter your date of birth" prompts are performative and do nothing.
I will say I am usually the first person to oppose any sort of government overreach, I am very pro privacy.
I believe the energy put into the criticism and boycott of Discord should be put into finding solutions for verifying ID in a secure and private manner online. Something like Apple Pay for IDs?