Age verification on Roblox using AI is not good
Roblox is a game mostly for kids. In an effort to make the game safer, the Roblox company integrated an AI-based age verification system. For Wired, David Gilbert, describes a mess of a system.
But players are already in revolt because they can no longer chat to their friends, developers are demanding Roblox roll back the update, and crucially, experts say that not only is the AI mis-aging young players as adults and vice versa, the system does little to help address the problem it was designed to tackle: the flood of predators using the platform to groom young children.
In fact, WIRED has found multiple examples of people advertising age-verified accounts for minors as young as 9 years old on eBay for as little as $4.
I don’t think my kids will be playing Roblox much any time soon.
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