Post #2133356

2026-02-11 20:15 UTC

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. A lot of people and journalists didn’t read that far apparently.

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@hobovision@mander.xyz 2026-02-11 21:38

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.

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@echodot@feddit.uk 2026-02-12 06:47

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".

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@other_cat@piefed.zip 2026-02-12 20:19

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.

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