good morning, i keep wondering how discord's advanced machine learning model is going to hold up in court when it gets some 12-year-old's age wrong

[ello@void.ello.tech]

good morning, i keep wondering how discord's advanced machine learning model is going to hold up in court when it gets some 12-year-old's age wrong

[rosalyn@mindly.social]

@ello I was all over the Internet when I was 12. I got permission from my parents to say that I was 13 on any site that asked, because I was mature for my age. It wasn't even that they didn't know what I was doing.

[ello@void.ello.tech]

@Rosalyn i didn't even get permission, i just happily and automatically lied. i don't remember what exactly instilled do not provide real information to the internet in me but it happened really early.

[rosalyn@mindly.social]

@ello I think most kids do. I was in a particularly unique situation. I was being taught how to use email, and I put my real birth date on the Hotmail signup form. When I did that, it asked my parents to submit approval that they give permission for their daughter to have an email account. My technology teacher told my parents that if I set my birth date to one of a 13-year-old, they would not have to submit any documentation, so my parents gave my teacher permission to help me fake my birth date on the form. From then on, I was like, "Oh, it's that easy to lie on a form. No problem, rinse and repeat."