If Discord’s age inference model can’t determine a user’s age, a government ID might still be required for age verification in its global rollout. According to Discord, to remove the new “teen-by-default” changes and limitations, “users can choose to use facial age estimation or submit a form of identification to [Discord’s] vendor partners, with more options coming in the future.”
The first option uses AI to analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device. If the age group estimate (teen or adult) from the selfie is incorrect, users can appeal it or verify with a photo of an identity document instead. That document will be verified by a third party vendor, but Discord says the images of those documents “are deleted quickly — in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.”
With the new Identity and Facial Scan Requirements, I hope that Discord dies a painful death and people move back to old school forums or at least some open source platform like Element.
if i submit nothing, do i get to use a pruned down version of discord?
you get to use the “teen version” so all the servers marked as “adult” for any and all reason (including none) you will no longer be able to use
I’d bet it works for a day or two, then your account will be suspended due to “suspicious activity” and will require this ID process to unlock the account.