Did anyone ask for this feature? Are you telling me that when a kid receives a photo blurred out in IG, shim is just going move on and be like 'gee I'm just going to have to wait'. They have to have a phone number and email address to set up the account right??!!
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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Can the senders be sent to jail as well?
what? is insta allowing nudes Ö
why only to minors
It's an option for adults.
should be on by default except trusted users
If they can detect nudes to blur them out, why not simply not have them sent at all?
But also: Imagine being so ugly, even when you're not sending nudes it thinks you're sending nudes.
From an ethical standpoint I would say teenagers should be allowed to send each other nudes, but from a corporate liability standpoint I don't wanna have anything to do with that.
There's probably a very good reason most Lemmy instances do not bother with NFSW content.
Yeah, this is definitely gonna work, as if I haven’t been over 18 years old since I was 12 years old, according to every birthdate question ever.
I am 15 and 24 on Insta 😅
According to every site ever I was born on Jan 1, 2000.
If the default date is old enough to get past the prompt, I use that one. If it isn't, I pick a random year that is. I don't have to lie unless I want a senior discount or something, but I just don't want to share my birthdate with any random site or service.
I do the same, but use the real year. I was born a little before your number
That was well below 18 for most of the time I have used the Internet. People born on that day were toddlers when I started to seriously use the Internet.
I could nowadays enter my real DOB and get through all checks but I usually still pick something in the 1970s or 1980s.
Only since 2018. Before then I was born on 1/1/1990.
Nice. I just scroll randomly a bit. I think it's funny getting random birthday wishes throughout the year.
Fake age comparison really making me feel old. Mine was Jan 1,1980
Lmfao for real, putting my fake age as born in 2000 would make me younger 🙃
So... they can identify when someone in a conversation is a minor. And they can identify when nudes are being sent. But when these two are combined, they figure just blurring the image is the appropriate solution?
Perhaps to avoid false positives? I think it's telling the minor, "hey, this might be a dick. Open only if you trust the person".
Wouldn't not permitting minors to use the service at all make this issue moot?
They're already lying to get passed the 13 year requirement so I doubt it would make any difference.
But that doesn't make Meta money.
lots of comments about e2e encryption (or the potential lack thereof)
even if it is e2e encrypted (and I mostly believe it is), once its decrypted on your device (in their app) its in the clear. there is nothing technical preventing the app from then inspecting the data or forwardiing the data to another party for analysis - thats a "terms and conditions" issue.
the article claims they are doing some on-device recognition - thats likely computationally non-trivial, with variable accuracy (false positives/negatives, anyone) and probably at least partially circumventable and perhaps even exploitable (more app surface area to attack).
so, ok... its a lead-in to classifying content on your device. I have no idea what comes next, but I am pretty sure there will be a next and this is why I don't intentially use any meta products.
Which is a end-game around E2E. Saying 'the message is encrypted', but yes, I look at all messages before and/or after violates the expectation of E2E.
I've said this from the start, and people called me names, or "prove it". Sigh.
If the capability is there, that's a problem.
Honestly seems like a healthy feature. Everything is supposedly on-device, so it's not like the AI police are banning anything, just smartly giving tools and advice to vulnerable people.
"Supposedly"
Right.
Why not just don't allow minors to use the service?
What about images sent from Japan? Aren't they all pixelated by default? /s
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