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> Google is using AI age checks to lock down user accounts https://www.theverge.com/news/716154/google-ai-age-estimation-under-18

FTA: "The company says it will use the information a user has searched for or the types of YouTube videos they watch to determine their age. "

I may need to stop watching #SesameStreet and cartoons clips on YouTube

#tech #fuckery #Google #fail#CivilRights #privacy #censorship

> Google is using AI age checks to lock down user accounts https://www.theverge.com/news/716154/google-ai-age-estimation-under-18

FTA: "The company says it will use the information a user has searched for or the types of YouTube videos they watch to determine their age. "

I may need to stop watching #SesameStreet and cartoons clips on YouTube

#tech #fuckery #Google #fail#CivilRights #privacy #censorship

@pluralistic This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:

'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.

Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'

#google #layoffs