This is I believe the first time in human history that AI video cameras have been widely deployed, inside private homes, for the purpose of enforcing laws. Never mind the banal details: this is an incredible milestone.
Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not that I don't believe you, but Chinese teams compete at the highest levels of competitive gaming. There has to be some loopholes. Same goes for South Korea. Actually, China and South Korea are the two most dominant regions for many games.
Are there minors on the top-level Chinese teams?
People who have played way less when they were minors would be at a big disadvantage compared to the rest of the world.
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#33So what happens if a minor staples a cutout of Wolverine's face on their face?
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#34https://ausum.io/s/0cHhxkrkhPNdXca_jebdvkUQ7CJ7X3I_bWgkDCs_u... - generated an audio summary that's 1 minute and 19 seconds, hope this is helpful!
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#35For context, these are China's current restrictions on gaming for minors (under age 18): - Maximum 1.5 hours of gaming on weekdays - Maximum 3 hours of gaming on weekends - No games between 10pm and 8am (note that school typically starts between 7 and 8am) South Korea has similar types of restrictions, by the way. No gaming for minors (under 16) between midnight and 6am. I think Vietnam may have something similar as…
> South Korea has similar types of restrictions, by the way. No gaming for minors (under 16) between midnight and 6am.
I'm disappointed but not surprised that China makes rules like this, but I always thought South Korea was basically a free country and never expected this sort of rule from them.
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#36Obviously, the article's example is scary but I enjoyed this one https://driesdepoorter.be/theflemishscrollers/
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#37Obviously there’s cultural factors at play, I just wonder whether strategically it’s wise to teach kids externally imposed restrictions rather than learning to restrict themselves intrinsically because something else is worth doing? It’s kind of the metaphor of the kid with the very strict upbringing that has no self control when they move away from their family.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tencent: "show me your face or I won't let you pay my game", me: "fine I won't play your game then" Government: "show me your face or else[1]", me: "r-right away sir" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
The article states that "authorities stepped in" and that this is at the very least some type of public-private partnership where "the gaming platform’s facial verification system" is "linked with big data from the central public security system". My inclination is to assume this is compelled by the Chinese state.
Indeed, it's impossible to get access for China's government facial recognition server for a company, unless the government wants it to.
Games were an anonymous chat outlet before, so they are closing on that now with radical actions.
Now I believe they will be feeding game chats to their version of PRISM, and want to tie them to reliable real world identities.
Basically, chicoms want to close any way for a chat message to not to have a reliable ID matched to it.
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#39This is I believe the first time in human history that AI video cameras have been widely deployed, inside private homes, for the purpose of enforcing laws. Never mind the banal details: this is an incredible milestone.
...a milestone towards the totalitarian dystopia previously only encountered in science fiction.
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#40For context, these are China's current restrictions on gaming for minors (under age 18): - Maximum 1.5 hours of gaming on weekdays - Maximum 3 hours of gaming on weekends - No games between 10pm and 8am (note that school typically starts between 7 and 8am) South Korea has similar types of restrictions, by the way. No gaming for minors (under 16) between midnight and 6am. I think Vietnam may have something similar as…
> South Korea has similar types of restrictions, by the way. No gaming for minors (under 16) between midnight and 6am. I'm disappointed but not surprised that China makes rules like this, but I always thought South Korea was basically a free country and never expected this sort of rule from them.
So, generally, I really dislike this kind of paternalism. This rule in particular doesn't seem that crazy, but enforcement just seems completely unrealistic without major privacy violations.
Maybe that's why I dislike this kind of paternalism.