Kids Use Fake Mustaches To Bypass AI Age Verification, Study Finds (opens in new tab)

A recent study by the British organization Internet Matters has highlighted a significant gap between sophisticated age-verification technologies and the creative methods used by minors to circumvent them. Despite the “million-dollar” investments by tech giants into artificial intelligence and facial recognition, the report suggests that these systems are often defeated by remarkably low-cost, “cents-on-the-dollar” tactics. The survey, which gathered data from 1,000 young people in the United...