{"id":55002,"date":"2025-08-08T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55002\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:24:14","slug":"age-verification-is-sweeping-gaming-is-it-ready-for-the-age-of-ai-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55002\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ash, a UK-based 20-year-old who requested his last name not be used, tells WIRED he was able to pass verification using God of War\u2019s photo mode with main character Kratos<\/a>. \u201cI didn’t expect [verification] to work because of Kratos’ white skin and beard, but it worked first try,\u201d he says. Another Discord user in the UK, who goes by Antsy online, says he achieved the same results with Arma 3 and a mod that allows you to pose characters. \u201cI figured out I could simply by trying, as all people should,\u201d he tells WIRED. \u201cArma 3 characters look very poor, nowhere near realistic, so I thought it would be a solid experiment to solidify or challenge my views on this technology.\u201d Antsy says he and his friends consider this kind of tech \u201ca challenge\u201d they try to bypass. \u201cI am very pro internet safety,\u201d he says. \u201cI believe, though, that it should not be the internet\u2019s job to parent and protect its younger users.”<\/p>\n

Video game characters from several games worked. In a video from YouTuber beebreadtech<\/a>, he\u2019s able to swiftly get an adult-age rating repeating Siyan\u2019s steps with Death Stranding. Other Discord users WIRED talked to say they were able to do so with games like Days Gone, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, The Sims 4, Cyberpunk 2077, Days Gone, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Gray Zone Warfare. Some say they even successfully used Garry\u2019s Mod, a game with slapstick physics and character models resembling something from a fever dream.<\/p>\n

Discord has not yet responded to WIRED\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Maimon says there are too many possible loopholes with age verification that people can slip through. \u201cThe industry is trying to find solutions to the issue of AI deepfakes and and and live AIs,\u201d he says. That may mean relying on a combination of factors that look at a person\u2019s associated information like telephone numbers, addresses and more. \u201cYou need to rely more heavily on historical evidence for the existence of the individual,\u201d Maimon says, \u201cand put less of an emphasis on checkpoints like driver licenses, photos, livenessness tests, and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maimon says that bad actors are adept at bypassing these kinds of technologies. \u201cCriminals are always like 7 to 12 months ahead of us in terms of their ability to find vulnerabilities and bypass some of the technologies out there,\u201d he says. Even without generative AI, people can still sell videos of their faces to pass age verification.<\/p>\n

Even photo IDs aren\u2019t bulletproof. \u201cThe quality of a [fake] driver license\u2014it’s just impeccable,\u201d Maimon says. All the watermarks, the UV lights, all the security, even the right plastic material on which the driver license is being printed on\u2014even that criminals now have access to.\u201d<\/p>\n

For legitimate IDs, there\u2019s an issue with minors and who owns one. WIRED previously asked<\/a> Roblox chief safety officer Matt Kaufman about 13-year-olds\u2014the minimum age for Roblox to unlock some of its features\u2014that might not have government-issued IDs. \u201cThat is a problem,\u201d Kaufman told WIRED at the time, adding that in North America and the United States, it\u2019s uncommon for people so young to have them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ash, a UK-based 20-year-old who requested his last name not be used, tells WIRED he was able to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,36729,5545,61,2881],"class_list":{"0":"post-55002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-discord","14":"tag-privacy","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-video-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}