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Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits (mashable.com)
submitted 2 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.

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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a bunch of AI face generating pictures. I wonder if you can just use those. Or maybe this is just to create a new law to arrest people of uploading fake pictures...

https://thispersonnotexist.org/

https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are they asking for selfies, or selfies of the user? Important difference.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And it would know the difference how?

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you were replying to but maybe the limit of using the websites like the ones I posted is you can't reuse the same face (at least not than I'm aware of).

So if you are in the UK and you upload 2 selfies from the site and the facial recognition pattern is different from each other, then the system which Reddit is using might reject it.

This is only a guess though.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It should be trivial to generate a stack of similar enough selfies to fool these systems. Still, any site that starts requiring this shit isn't worth going on.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

Agreed. I hope more people leave that dumpster fire.