Discord takes a second swing at age verification, but don’t worry, this time it’ll guess how old you are with 90% accuracy

After some heavy controversy and arguments with the internet writ large, Discord is now trying to fulfil legal obligations to roll out age verification systems that snoop on you as little as possible. How so? Well, with an “age estimation model” that tries to figure out how old you are, which I’m sure will put everyone at ease.

“Our age group estimation model looks at patterns of account behaviour on Discord. It does not look at your messages, calls, or other content. For example, the way a typical teen uses Discord will look different in aggregate from how a typical 30-year-old uses Discord. Our model has learned these patterns and uses them to estimate whether a given account most likely belongs to an adult (18+) or a teen (13-17).”