Dave Baszucki: prediction

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…Five years from now, what will age verification look like? I feel we’re going to see continued—I love using the word convolution. It mathematically means taking all of the signals, for me, at various levels of accuracy and just getting better and better in a privacy-compliant, legally-compliant way of taking full responsibility to the best of our ability to know the age of everyone on our platform. There are a lot of sources of signals. There may be a requirement someday in the US to have every app share the user’s age. There may be other forms of signals in another country. I think we’re just going to see an increasing accuracy as more and more of these signals become available. It creates a huge responsibility for platforms like us. We use all of this facial age estimation signaling ephemerally. We do not keep it around. We don’t want to keep it around. I think there is a responsibility for vendors to manage these signals, but I’m optimistic. I don’t mean necessarily today, but why not use something like eye scans? Because the better you get at age verification, there’s then a higher incentive to just auction off usernames and passwords, say on 4chan, and someone buys it and they get on, and it seems as if they’re verified. If you have an eye scan every time someone logs on—…

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