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@jerome Yes, my link is about how an AI can be used, this is about how an AI can be trained

@jerome Fair, but I got to hope. They have the best track record regarding ethics (very far from a perfect grade, let's not fool ourselves here), so if not them, no one

Truely chilling article. OpenAI and Google caved, Anthropic is the only one with a shred of ethics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

@grunfink @stefano @mastoblaster What's snac? Google didnt help me

@cwebber This goes for any institution, no? The bigger/more influent the org, the more it needs to adhere to laws "by default"? For age verification, couldn't governments just force the mastodon developpers to include age verification features? And then it'd be easier to go asking all instances to comply, starting with the big ones

Decentralization just slows this process, but does not stop it. Maybe it's enough, but I guess it depends on the resources said adversary has

@anthropy Thanks for the polite reply.

I am not talking about infering age through data. I am talking about using Zero-Knowledge proofs (like ZK-SNARKS, but there are others) paired with a digital ID system (the government already know your age, so no new information is required) to generate a proof (can be a QR code for example). This code contains the proof that

1. You have a digital ID account with X government
2. You are 18+

It contains no PII whatsoever. The gov just knows that you generated a proof, but not where you used said proof. The website knows who issued the proof, that you're 18+, but doesn't know anything else about you.

This requires zero third-party, so the risk of tracking is reduced greatly, and cybersecurity-wise it's much better than gathering a ton of information and giving them to third parties.

@kkarhan the bullet point and the link to another toot confused me, what I meant to say was that you can be against age verification for moral reason, I understand that and actually support most of this way of thinking. However, it is dishonest to pretend that the only way to do age verification is whatever we have right now. I am against that because of the abuse risk that are very well documented, as you pointed out.

But there is a way to do age verification without having these PIIs being thrown around and all this tracking. This is a fact and a lot of people are either not aware of it or are ignoring it on purpose

@kkarhan It kind of looks like you did not read my post at all. Except the first point, your other points are simply false. I'll gladly engage more if you're interested, but please read and understand the original post before replying at least

Something that icks me regarding the online #ageverification discourse that we see today is that everyone seems to assume that giving privacy-intrusive or PII datais the only way to have age verification online. However, we already know how to make age verification where:

1. The government doesn't know on which sites you register or give access to third parties to PII
2. The website to which you register doesn't need to interact with the government or any third party
3. The website doesn't know your age, just that you're over 18
4. No third party is required

The two things you need is a digital ID system and zero-knowledge proofs. That's it

@reece Bluesky has a nice/healthy mix of ethical/safety and general AI usage discourse I find. You'll still find the general twitter vibe where people foam about AGI but it's much more balanced