Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
Discord 年龄验证功能今日上线，此前因用户抵制做出调整
Discord today is rolling out an age-verification system that estimates each user’s age and requires some users to prove they are old enough to access age-restricted content. Discord said it will take a few days for the global system to reach all user accounts. Discord 今日正式推出了一套年龄验证系统，该系统会估算每位用户的年龄，并要求部分用户证明其已达到访问年龄限制内容的法定年龄。Discord 表示，该全球系统将在几天内覆盖所有用户账户。
Discord had announced a somewhat different plan for age checks in February, but scrapped it amid backlash from users concerned about privacy. The privacy concerns were heightened by a 2025 incident in which hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 Discord users from a third-party service that Discord used to verify ages in the UK and Australia. The original plan was to require ID uploads or face scans from users seeking to access age-restricted servers and channels. Discord 曾在今年 2 月宣布过一项略有不同的年龄检查计划，但因用户对隐私问题的担忧而遭到抵制，最终被迫放弃。2025 年发生的一起事件加剧了这种隐私担忧：黑客从 Discord 在英国和澳大利亚用于验证年龄的第三方服务中，窃取了 7 万名 Discord 用户的政府身份证件信息。最初的计划是要求希望访问受限服务器和频道的用户上传身份证件或进行人脸扫描。
The revised system, detailed yesterday by Discord CTO and co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy, will provide several additional options. “In February, the only methods we’d planned for to confirm your age were facial age estimation or an ID scan. Based on your feedback, we committed to giving you more options that meet our high privacy standards,” Vishnevskiy wrote. Discord 首席技术官兼联合创始人 Stanislav Vishnevskiy 昨日详细介绍了修订后的系统，该系统将提供多种额外选项。Vishnevskiy 写道：“在 2 月份，我们计划的年龄确认方法仅有人脸年龄估算或身份证扫描。根据用户的反馈，我们承诺提供更多符合我们高隐私标准的选项。”
A Discord system will automatically estimate user ages and place each user into an adult age group (18+), a teen group (13-17), or an “unconfirmed” group for which there isn’t enough data to determine whether a person is an adult or teen. For the teen group, message requests from non-friends will go to a separate inbox for review, and users will receive alerts about friend requests from people they don’t share mutual friends or a small server with. “Sensitive” images will be blurred or blocked, “and age-restricted servers, channels, and bot commands aren’t accessible,” Discord said. Teen users’ full profile details will be visible only to friends and people in smaller servers that they’re part of. Discord 系统会自动估算用户年龄，并将每位用户归入成人组（18 岁以上）、青少年组（13-17 岁）或“未确认”组（因数据不足无法判断是成人还是青少年）。对于青少年组，来自非好友的消息请求将被放入单独的收件箱以供审核；如果好友请求来自没有共同好友或共同小型服务器的人，用户将会收到提醒。Discord 表示，“敏感”图片将被模糊处理或屏蔽，“且无法访问受限服务器、频道和机器人指令”。青少年用户的完整个人资料仅对好友以及他们所在的小型服务器中的成员可见。
Age verification options
年龄验证选项
Discord estimates that more than 90 percent of users will not be asked to confirm their age. Adults who want to access age-restricted content, but are incorrectly placed in the 13-17 age group or put into “unconfirmed,” will have several options to prove they are old enough. One option is to enter credit card information. The age-verification vendor k-ID “routes the details to Stripe to confirm the card is owned and authorized by an adult. Neither k-ID nor Discord ever sees the card details,” Vishnevskiy wrote. Discord 预计超过 90% 的用户不会被要求确认年龄。如果成年用户希望访问受限内容，但被错误地归入 13-17 岁组或“未确认”组，他们将有多种方式证明自己的年龄。其中一种方式是输入信用卡信息。年龄验证供应商 k-ID 会“将详细信息发送至 Stripe，以确认该卡由成年人持有并授权。k-ID 和 Discord 都不会看到具体的卡片信息，”Vishnevskiy 写道。
Users may choose to share their age range through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. With this method, “Your exact birthdate won’t be shared, only your age group,” Vishnevskiy wrote. Another option that relies on a Google Wallet feature, available only in the US and a few other countries, is to “confirm your age using the ID pass already set up in Google Wallet, based on your passport. Your ID details stay with Google,” Vishnevskiy wrote. One more option uses k-ID’s AgeKey service, which is described as “a secure age proof saved as a passkey stored on your device or password manager.” 用户可以选择通过 Apple App Store 或 Google Play Store 分享其年龄范围。Vishnevskiy 写道，使用这种方法，“不会分享您的确切出生日期，只会分享您的年龄段。”另一种依赖 Google Wallet 功能的选项（仅在美国及少数其他国家可用）是“使用 Google Wallet 中已设置的基于护照的身份凭证来确认年龄。您的身份信息将保留在 Google 端，”Vishnevskiy 写道。此外还有一个选项是使用 k-ID 的 AgeKey 服务，该服务被描述为“一种保存在您的设备或密码管理器中的安全年龄证明密钥”。
“No matter which vendor you use to confirm your age, we won’t receive your name, your credit card, your ID, or a scan of your face. Instead, the information is processed by vendors like k-ID, who then pass us a signal containing your age group. The vendors are then required to delete your uploaded data immediately after confirming your age group,” Vishnevskiy wrote. The previous process with a different vendor that led to the September 2025 data breach has been “fully retired,” he wrote. “无论您使用哪家供应商来确认年龄，我们都不会收到您的姓名、信用卡、身份证件或人脸扫描信息。相反，信息由 k-ID 等供应商处理，他们随后会向我们发送一个包含您年龄段的信号。供应商在确认您的年龄段后，必须立即删除您上传的数据，”Vishnevskiy 写道。他表示，此前导致 2025 年 9 月数据泄露的另一家供应商的流程已被“完全停用”。
Discord examines account behavior to estimate age
Discord 通过账户行为估算年龄
Discord said in February that it would implement an “age inference model” that would operate “in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age.” The model apparently wasn’t ready in February, but is being rolled out now. Vishnevskiy said the age-group estimation model examines “the communities, servers, and games you’re connected to; general activity levels, such as how many channels or servers you’re active in; [and] account history, such as how old your account is.” Discord 在 2 月份曾表示将实施一种“年龄推断模型”，该模型将在“后台运行，以帮助确定账户是否属于成年人，而无需总是要求用户验证年龄”。该模型在 2 月份显然尚未准备就绪，但现在已开始推出。Vishnevskiy 表示，年龄组估算模型会检查“您连接的社区、服务器和游戏；总体活跃度，例如您在多少个频道或服务器中活跃；[以及] 账户历史记录，例如您的账户注册时长。”
“Our age group estimation model looks at patterns of account behavior on Discord,” Vishnevskiy wrote. “It does not look at your messages, calls, or other content…. 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).” “我们的年龄组估算模型会查看 Discord 上的账户行为模式，”Vishnevskiy 写道。“它不会查看您的消息、通话或其他内容……典型的青少年使用 Discord 的方式在总体上与典型的 30 岁用户使用 Discord 的方式不同。我们的模型已经学习了这些模式，并利用它们来估算某个账户最有可能属于成年人（18 岁以上）还是青少年（13-17 岁）。”
Discord requires users to be at least 13 years old and imposes restrictions on accounts in the 13-17 age group. “If you’re in the adult age group (18+), nothing changes,” Vishnevskiy wrote. “If you’re in the teen age group (13-17), you can keep messaging friends, joining voice calls, and taking part in non-age-restricted servers, with added safety protections that block access to age-restricted content, spaces, and settings.” Discord 要求用户至少满 13 岁，并对 13-17 岁年龄组的账户施加限制。“如果您处于成人年龄组（18 岁以上），则没有任何变化，”Vishnevskiy 写道。“如果您处于青少年年龄组（13-17 岁），您可以继续给好友发消息、加入语音通话并参与非年龄限制的服务器，同时会增加安全保护措施，以阻止访问受限内容、空间和设置。”