This sounds like an idea from someone who wants to justify their job.

Dumbest idea I’ve heard all day.

I shaved my beard once when I was thirty, and I got carded for an R-rated movie. So how about no.

Wtf is this dystopian shit holy fuck things are out of control

Good luck getting the age ID system to reliably work. Particulary for telling apart people a day over 18 and a day under. Forget ethics and adversarial conditions where people fake photos. How is this supposed to even work in an ideal world where people don’t misrepresent themselves?

Also collecting children’s biometrics is likely illegal.

Yeah no.

even if this somehow does become a thing, they chose a damn awesome time as realtime deepfakes exist

Could it not just be defeated by using a stock photo, or one of the myriad filters that “age-up” a person? It seems like a lot of trouble to go to, for measure that can be easily circumvented.

Misleading title. They recognize preuploaded photoes of parents, not age itself, as I got it from the article.

But they’d eventually want to pass it to adults too for ‘security’. ESRB kinda wants spend some money on whatever sticks, but they aren’t interested in that long-term as some Epic. Wouldn’t they like to implement their tools for that and require their usage?

How would they even accomplish that? I seriously doubt any of the major platforms are on board with this, given the backlash they’d face for implementing it, and the ESRB literally can’t force them to do anything. The most ESRB could do is refuse to rare games published on platforms that don’t adopt it, but like, it’s not exactly rocket science for Microsoft/sony/Nintendo to just start issuing their own ratings, and steam just doesn’t require ratings in the first place,