Does regulators really care about a predicted age? I feel like they require hard proof of being above age to show explicit content. The only ones that care about predicted age is advertisers.

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Retr0id 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In the UK, age verification just has to be "robust" (not further specified). Face scanning, for example, is explicitly designated as an allowed heuristic.

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Imustaskforhelp 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not much for the regulators as much as its for the advertisers.

At this point, just use gemini (yes its google and has its issues if you need SOTA) or I have recently been trying out more and more chat.z.ai for simple text issues (like hey can you fix this docker issue etc.) and I feel like chat.z.ai is pretty good plus open source models (honestly chat.z.ai feels pretty SOTA to me)

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threetonesun 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Kagi's Assistant is the most useful tool I've found as far as searching goes, and occasionally simple codegen. Let's you use a wide variety of models and isn't tracking me.

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If we are talking about complete privacy. I am trying out https://confer.to (created by signal team) too and I am unable to run it on my mac (passkey support)(I tried it both in zen & orion) but I tried it on an android chrome (tablet) and I am kinda more optimistic about it too I have heard good things about Kagi in fact, that's the reason why I tried orion and still have it in the first place but I haven't bought Kagi, I just used the free searches orion gives & I don't know if it has Kagi's assistant. I think proton's Lumo is another good bet. If you want something to not track you, I once asked cerebras team on their discord if they track the queries and responses from their website try now feature and they said that they don't. I don't really see a reason why they might lie about it given that its only meant for very basic purposes & they don't train models or anything. You also get one of the fastest inferences for models including GLM 4.7 (which z.ai uses) You might not get search results though but for search related queries duck.ai's pretty good and you can always mix and match. But Cerebras recently got a 10 billion $ investment from OpenAI and I Have been critical of them from now on so do be wary now. Kagi Assistant does seem to be good if someone already uses Kagi or has a subscription of it from what I feel like.

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heliumtera 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Any proof that you are above a certain age will also expose you identity. That is the only reason regulators care about children safety online, because they care about ID. LLMs are very good at profiling users in hacker news and finding alt accounts, for example. profiling is the best use case for llms.

So there you go, maybe it wont give exactly what regulators say they want, but it will give exactly what they truly want.