not another AI thing...Discord is working on a new age verification system that requires users to take a "video selfie". Now will some human being look at yo...
  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    No, it doesn’t have to work that way, as we can see by the existence of messaging platforms with end-to-end encryption.

    I suspect the person to whom I replied understands this, but their comment could have been misinterpreted as implying that Discord messages are private, so I wanted to clarify.

    • blindsight@beehaw.org
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Regardless, they need to have it in their terms of service that they can host the file, encrypted or otherwise, on their servers and reserve the right to serve the files to other users.

      But yes, that’s true that they can’t necessarily access the files they’re hosting/serving.