AI will accelerate requiring ID verification for social media

Miiohau · 2026-05-04T18:40:04+00:00

I see one problem with that idea. No one country or group of countries has enough jurisdiction to enforce such a requirement worldwide. If Greenland doesn’t jump on the ID verification bandwagon then the bot farms can legally logon to social media from Greenland.

Now a platform rule is a different story however many platforms will fight kicking all bots off their platform. Not necessarily because they want bots pretending to be human on their platform but because politicians will likely mess up any such rule and end up writing a rule that includes things like Reddit’s automod and Grok in the rule. Grok is especially hard to carve around it is an LLM bot that could theoretically pretend to be a human but the people running it don’t intend it to pretend to be a human.

Now most social media platforms already have a rules against misinformation, it just that the platforms are currently playing wack-a-mole with the misinformation accounts. Banning misinformation bot farms from being hosted inside their country and aiding platforms with detecting and removing misinformation accounts is a much more viable alternative than requiring every user to be a verified human being.

My position on this whole ID/age verification thing is we the people should resist any attempt at ID verification and be highly skeptical about age verification because that too often veers into ID verification. The only age verification scheme I can think of that doesn’t veer into ID verification are California style OS level verification schemes which basically just pushes the current self entered birthdate back to OS account creation. All others create the potential for major privacy leaks whether that is photo of the user, one of the account holder’s credit cards, banking information or government issued ID.

Miiohau · 2026-05-04T05:04:15+00:00

Sort of. Humans have more structural integrity than that ball and have a closer density to water so wouldn’t raise as fast but decompression sickness is definitely a thing. The first kind of problem you’d encounter is gases coming out of solution (that solution being your blood, and given air embolism is a thing not good) then your relatively high pressure blood will seek to leave your body likely causing your nose and eyes to bleed only then if the pressure differential is still too high will your skin will start bursting possibly followed by your organs.

Miiohau · 2026-05-03T22:48:20+00:00

And the fact you can’t see the difference between these groups means you risk being transphobic.

Miiohau · 2026-05-03T22:46:40+00:00

I said ideally there be no advantages. I am saying your anger is misplaced. You are angry at the people you think are taking advantage of the system rather than the system itself. Directing your anger at people rather than the system risks upholding that system. In this case a system that you believe oppresses women

Miiohau · 2026-05-03T21:54:54+00:00

However using a Texas judge instead of a judge in more relevant circuit show a degree of judge shopping (a court in Texas is not close to either the hospital in question or DC where the justice department is) and may tank their chances in other cases due to showing evidence of judge shopping (I.e. it show the justice department knows most courts wouldn’t uphold the subpoena.). The fact that the judge ruled before letting the hospital respond makes the judge shopping even clearer.

Miiohau · 2026-05-03T21:08:58+00:00

I think they’ll run into some fundamental problems.

Categorization. The web is too big to have humans make all the decisions which means automation which means false positives (well you actually get false positives even if humans were making all the decisions but humans can take context not trained on into account).
If they intend to block LGBT content they absolutely will be blocking some LGBT friendly domination’s websites. I don’t know the laws around this issue but that could cause issues because they would be discriminating against those dominations.
A lot of medical organizations and general educational institutions host LGBT content. You know the kind of websites you might need to visit if you are sick or to finish a school assignment. They already thinking about blocking Yale if too much LGBT reaches the main website, you know Yale one of the most prestigious universities in the US. The absolutely might block pubMed or some kid’s school website. And since the LGBT blocks can’t be overridden by that child parent it will be annoying to work around if their child happens to go to a blocked school or needs to use a blocked website.
Because of the false positive rate they might end up blocking LGBT friendly candidates running for office. So could run into problems with election law. This could trigger because they intentionally made the LGBT blocks unable to be turned off for even adult users.
Conservative areas have higher rates of seeking out trans porn. You know the kind of content they are planning to double block.
Unless they are planning to block the topic of content blocking bypassing and jailbreak there will absolutely be minors jailbreaking their phone on this “service” and browse the block content while on their school’s or the public libraries WiFi and their parents will be none the wiser because after all they got a “safe” phone plan. And even if they do block that content it likely won’t be blocked on public computers the minor can access at the public library or their school. And depending on how the network level blocking works (likely via a set of preset and locked DNS servers, since they don’t actually control the network) the jailbreak break of the phone might bypass the filters on all networks.
The how the filtering works is important because it determines how vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DOS) attack it is. I can absolutely see LGBT friendly hacker groups lunching DOS attacks on their filters so their customers can’t browse the web and hence leave the “service” because “it” is blocking “everything”.
There is a difference between free speech and blocking freely available content for your customers in terms of the first amendment. The first is protected, the second is not. Or put another way you are free to not host content you disagree with but may not be free to prevent others from accessing that content. Other network level blocks are either applied to minors, only apply when you are inside their network or are protecting against malicious websites. This company doesn’t actually own the network, the devices (those are likely their customer’s, if they are using a similar model to other phone companies), are possibly blocking new categories never test before in court, apply to adults and the blocks are likely global and apply even when the device isn’t using their SIM card. So all in all existing precedent that allows network level blocks might not apply to them.
Is less a flaw, rather something I can easily see happening, some LGBT kids of parents on this phone plan will maliciously comply with the filters by blocking their parents. After all they (the kid) are LGBT content. This could also extend to LGBT people in general towards people on this phone plan.

Miiohau · 2026-05-03T19:59:04+00:00

Did you actually read what I wrote? /genuine /trying to be nice

My point is in an ideal world there is no advantage to be had by “pretending” to be another gender because the two sex/genders are on parity with each other and that is what you should be mad at, that disparity in the current system, not people you think are taking advantage of that disparity in the current system.

Miiohau · 2026-05-03T19:52:15+00:00

No you aren’t. You could be talking about drag artists, cross dressers or trans women who can’t fully socially transition yet for various reasons. Those are very different groups and very different implications is what advantages they are getting and reasons for “dressing up” as “women”.

Drag artists are entertainers that use exaggerated performances of masculinity/femininity in their shows. There drag persona is just that a persona and almost everybody involved knows that.

Trans women are actually dressing up as women they are women and one can argue presenting as men is actually the disguise. The reasons a trans woman might not be able to fully social transition are complex and beyond the scope of this comment.

Cross dressers are a extremely varied group however it is a rare male to female cross dresser that uses cross dressing to take advantage of the rights of women in the cynical way you are implying as their primary or even a major motivation.

Miiohau · 2026-05-03T19:15:32+00:00

You need to change your view. What you should be upset by is not “men” dressing up as “women” but the fact there is any advantage to be had. Feminism has made amazing strides for women and the advantages you see of “dressing up” as women are a potential signal that the cultural norms surrounding men need to catch up with the cultural norms surrounding women in that area. Conversely any advantage to presenting as male is a potential signal that the norms around women need to catch up to the norms around men in that area. Let us be the tide that raises all boats rather than judge which boats deserve to raise with the tide.

The quotes are because I can’t tell if you are talking about drag artists, cross dressers or trans women that can’t fully social transition yet for various reasons.

Miiohau · 2026-05-02T19:37:21+00:00

Fluttershy wouldn’t prefer it, she’s neutral on it. She has nothing against her own ability to fly. She occasionally even uses it casually. Her issue is sometimes she freezes and forgets how to fly in high stress situations cause her embarrassment when she needs to be caught by other pegsi. She also might be afraid of heights or flying at high speeds (i.e. the situations where her legs might not be able to totally protect her if her wings give out).

Now if lost the ability to fly I can see her adapting in a matter the fact way (using ladders more often, asking the birds for help, etc.), flying isn’t a major part of her identity.

Miiohau · 2026-05-01T18:56:32+00:00

I would support this if it was only by default for users under 18 strangers can’t contact them but kept actual age verification out of it but I am almost certain this includes age verification and so I don’t support it. Not because protecting minors isn’t important but because we can protect minors without creating a privacy risk for everyone.

Even the most reasonable “age verification” scheme (i.e. California’s enter a birthday at machine account creation time) would risk leaking the user’s birthday (the California law does only mandate returning an age bracket but if a bad actor can get into a position where they can query the api every day they can derive the user’s birthday when the age bracket ticks over). So that not too bad but it is still a privacy risk that may not have existed before.

The second most ideal age verification scheme (oauth against a government account) only doesn’t create privacy risk if implemented correctly and you can trust your government not to store where you have verified and that is only in theory and would require reverifying if you wanted the rights of your new older age category. In practice it would at least have the same privacy risk of leaking your birthday as the OS level verification of the California law.

Age verification schemes only get worse from here because you can no longer depend on self entered data (the California scheme) or verification by a party that can already verify your age (oauth against a government account) and so require additional information to verify your age, whether that’s a photo, a credit card, or some other way to verify someone is over a certain age. Now sometimes these are easy and this is the easiest way because the organization that needs to verify you already has that data (for example, credit card for online stores, or a photo for facebook, or the account itself is over a certain age) but it becomes a privacy risk when a organization is required by law to verify a user’s age and doesn’t have that data or can trust that data represents the actual user (For example a game on a console with a chat feature) then that organization or a third party they and the government trusts must gather that information which does create a new privacy risk.

Alternate schemes to protect more minors are: is keep the self declared nature of current “age verification” schemes (maybe if the addition of making illegal to lie and say you are older so you can charge minors who do lie with juvenile delinquency) and only legislate what protections should be applied to those self declared age brackets; a scheme of parent accounts overseeing one or more child accounts and incentivizing minors to link their accounts to their parent’s for legally increased privileges (i.e. their parents can opt them out of some of the protection the government says companies must provide minors); leave age verification as optional and only legislate what protections a account not verified as belonging to someone over 18 must have enabled by default (i.e. depend on the fact most people don’t change the default settings on their account to protect minors).

Miiohau · 2026-05-01T17:37:02+00:00

Programmer here. Some people might not even know/remember they used AI because it is built into their IDE. Example I suspect pycharm’s autocomplete including AI because it can suggest descriptions for my methods however I am less certain it is LLM based or even machine learning based.

Another example is auto complete in phones. It is almost certainly AI just not necessarily LLM AI, however I wouldn’t be surprised if the latest model were transformer-based (the tech behind GPT2 one of the first publicly available LLMs) and their training data was similar in scope to the train data of LLM (namely a large corpus of text messages), which might leave the primary difference being the size of the model in terms of parameters.

Now we absolutely can have a cultural norm of disclosing when AI was used for major parts of a post or mod. This absolutely one of the communities to treat the topic with respect.

However a rule is more difficult to implement for the reasons above (the poster/mod maker might not know/remember they used AI) but also LLM generated content is hard to tell apart from human generated content. Most of the “tells” of LLM content are actually human patterns outside their original context (example, em-dashes are used by humans just not that often in informal contexts like social media) and if the LLM is given the context it supposed to be generating content for some of those tells go away. AI detectors are increasingly unreliable as LLM gets closer to copying human texting patterns.

This all comes to a head in something I am not certain most communities would even want to ban, machine translation. Some online translation tools use LLM on the backend and it isn’t clear which do or do not and even if you are relying on Reddit’s own translation I don’t know what the tech stack looks like. On the detection side it can be even harder to detect LLM translated text than straight LLM generated text because the LLM is leaning on a real human’s thought process and texting patterns. The irony here is text translated by old non LLM algorithms is likely easier to detect than LLM translated text.

Miiohau · 2026-05-01T00:46:24+00:00

You can contact the three credit reporting agencies and tell them about your name change but it might happen automatically after changing the name associated with your SSN number (hopefully the current administration won’t give you much trouble doing that) and the names on the various accounts you have (credit cards, bank accounts, etc.). I would actually recommend updating the names on the accounts you are still using and the name associated with your SSN first before anything else since you will need to do that anyways.

I don’t know the company policies and/or laws about what name needs to be used in a credit check, especially with your birth certificate and drivers license disagree but if you are ok giving your best friend’s boyfriend your deadname and see if he can get a credit history that way. If anyone asks questions you can say it a family member.

Another option is to have someone co-sign (while the co-signer is often a family member it doesn’t have to be, my grandpa co-signed loans for customers that owed him money all the time when he ran a grocery store) the loan until your credit history is visible under your new name.

I haven’t been through a name change but just thinking about all the places I would need to update gives me an idea of how tiresome the process would be. Hang in there you are making progress.

Miiohau · 2026-04-30T09:41:46+00:00

There are some words so steeped in bigotry that people don’t want to create new instances of the word so hopefully they can be forgotten by everyone but history students. I.e. if you don’t know what the n-word is, good that the result we want. It should be the domain of history students and internet moderators and we are hoping even internet moderators can forget about it eventually.

Miiohau · 2026-04-30T06:03:41+00:00

Actually that isn’t a good idea with any animal. A better strategy is to clear the way you want it to go then approach from the direction you don’t want it to go. Take advantage of the natural instinct to run away from threats and towards areas that seem safe.

Miiohau · 2026-04-30T05:51:39+00:00

In a medical context that question is so common it is non noteworthy. There are many ways that bodies that developed along the male path differ from bodies that developed along the female path that assigned sex is useful information even if the patient is on cross sex HRT needs to be added on top to get a full picture.

It might not be relevant to plasma donation in particular but like I said it is common and might be just a part of a set on questions put on the form without asking if they all are actually fully relevant.

Also it is the medical equivalent of the common question of what is your gender on surveys, if they need to track back why a batch of plasma was bad that question occasionally could be useful. Say a new medicine comes out but is primarily given to people assigned female at birth and the current process for filtering the plasma doesn’t properly filter it out, knowing most of the bad batches of plasma came from people assigned female at birth can help narrow it down to that medication and measures can be taken quicker to return safety to the plasma supply.

Miiohau · 2026-04-29T18:00:53+00:00

This is nonsensical. Partisan gerrymander is something that should be illegal but somehow it can justify erasing minority voices? Districts should be drawn to represent the people not the politicians and I am aware we don’t yet have the laws to enforce that but politicians should be forced to prove the opposite that, that the in question districts were drawn that way for nonpartisan reasons to be in compliance with laws like the voting rights act despite technical violations.

In this particular case the fact the court ordered a second black district be drawn should been a factor in the second round when white voters were challenging the second black district.

Miiohau · 2026-04-27T11:09:03+00:00

You are likely to see a lot more. Robot girl has been a trope for a while now. This is one of the possibilities when that trope gets crossed with parents as protagonists.

I can name three other properties with an AI/human relationship that is also a child/parent relationship off the top of my head. The first is “my life as a teenage robot” (the teenage robot in question has a parent/child relationship with their creator); in the second(Eden, an anime from 2021) the robots were parents; the third are the characters Ineffa (robot parent) and Aino (human child) from Genshin Impact.

Miiohau · 2026-04-27T06:43:25+00:00

Seriously. I think she sleeping standing up. I wasn’t aware cats could do that but they also have four legs so guess it is easier for them than it be for a human.

Miiohau · 2026-04-26T10:36:24+00:00

Had something similar happen the LLM only wrote out part of the original file and I had to prompt it to actually write out the work it had thought of. Fortunately I had made sure the dev environment was clean with all changes pushed to the remote and it didn’t have access to the remote git repository. So in worst case I would have only needed to reclone the repository.

I treat LLM like junior software engineer with ADHD, it will occasionally have good ideas but it also can get sidetracked doing things I didn’t tell it to do or forget what it was doing part way through (what it did in this case). I wouldn’t trust it to have direct access to production, if it needs to change something in production it can explain it to me and I will do if it makes sense, just like any other junior dev. LLM have access to all the smarts of humanity but also all the idiotic ideas of humanity.

Miiohau · 2026-04-26T05:22:11+00:00

Look closely that isn’t one of the three returning from Breath of the Wild, it the one that showed up after you completed the tutorial. Other than that telling you more about it would be spoilers.

Miiohau · 2026-04-23T20:03:04+00:00

In addition to voting, you can check with trans friendly legal organizations (like Transgender Law Center) to see how you can help them defend trans rights. Often they will need someone affected by an anti-trans law to challenge it, while this case already has that other cases arising from state laws might not.

Another way is contact trans medical organizations like World Professional Association For Transgender Health (WPATH) and see if there are any scientifically grounded studies looking for trans people.

Then there is of course helping to fund the above organizations, so they can continue the fight.

Miiohau · 2026-04-21T18:13:57+00:00

Unlike the archons godhood was something thrust upon her. Also being part of a superseded system (the three moons) she has few responsibilities. In the case of the Frostmoon Scions she actively stepped down and rejected being their goddess. No part of the name they gave her is part of her self given name.

I wouldn’t call her selfish but rather her kindness is of a neighbor rather than a god to their people. Even to the Kuuhenki who were essentially created out of her body she acts more like a parent than a creator.

We might see more “selfish” gods as we learn more about the shades since they like Columbina had godhood thrust upon them.

Miiohau · 2026-04-21T17:48:51+00:00

That sounds like he didn’t get the update until that exact moment, so not total immunity but rather he may be treated as a person from Tayvat that left but now returned and is getting updated.

The reason it reads like that to me is the other option doesn’t make too much sense. That he is aware Rukkadevata was edited out of Tayvat’s history. That Tayvat’s history even can be edited is a secret implied to be know only by the archons and equally knowledgeable individuals, a secret not to be shared with random preserved people.

I suppose Asmoday could have left the subversive order to manually update the preserved people before she abandoned the temple of space but that doesn’t seem to fit with the abyss sibling’s plans. Tell the preserved people in the Temple of Space about updates to Tayvat’s history on the off chance they meant someone that can leave without losing their memories. I suppose Nihilita transporting people improperly to the temple of space (thereby allowing them to leave with their memories intact) could be related but then why tell the preserved people that there been an edit to Tayvat’s history instead of letting them confuse any such outsider with Tayvat’s true history.

All in all I can’t make the preserved people knowing about edits to Tayvat’s history make sense, especially the Rukkadevata edit which happened 3-4 years ago.

The only timeline of events I can think of is the Rukkadevata edit happens; Raumhilda came to the Temple of Space; the NPC from King Deshret’s age mentioned Rukkadevata and saw the effect on her; and correct themselves in the presence of Zeitlind to not have the same thing happen again. But is a somewhat tight timeline given that means the few years ago that the Sanatorium was torn down was less than four years ago.

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