Oct 18, 2026, 12:27 AM@nina_kali_nina at the time I thought the reason I needed this was age verification
- Oct 18, 2026, 12:27 AM
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Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtOct 18, 2026, 12:32 AM@mcc it's still on the bingo card. And chat control here/and in the EU. And then there's mandatory file scans on Android and iOS with reporting to police, still on the bingo cards.
And then there are Black Mirror like things that are already a reality. Like the marks printers leave on the paper for IDs. And unauthorised edits of images during printing. And camera applications that automatically "enhance" the image with un-disableable AI...
Oct 18, 2026, 12:40 AM@nina_kali_nina @mcc I’m reminded of John Barnes’ novel _Finity_, in which the protagonists had to fall back to pre-digitisation tools to avoid the way more modern tools would have undesired side-effects. In the novel it was quantum mechanics having this effect, but the analogy of all-pervasive AI having a dangerous level of influence on our perception (or even the possibility) of consensus reality is striking.