It's wild that all other comments in this thread (so far) seem to completely miss this nuance. There are lots of services that, in their terms, require users to be adults.
This type of age "identification" is a lot different than age verification, submission of ID, etc.
Came to say the same. Neither Ctrl+F by this human nor ChatGPT could find anything at all about age or identity verification. I think the title should be changed.
Tons of services have terms of service that include a minimum age requirement. That doesn't mean they are _verifying_ those ages. Just that if you are not the minimum age, then you're in breach of the service terms and can be terminated.
YCombinator requires users to be at least 13 years of age. Does that mean HN is going to require age identification? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Subject to these Terms, Zed will permit Customer to access and use Zed’s AI-enabled software-as-a-service offering (the “Service”), which enables certain additional features and functionality (including artificial intelligence and collaboration features) in Zed’s open source code editing software (“Software”).
I installed this one day to try it out and can't remember why I stopped, but apparently now I must hunt it down and destroy every trace of it from my machine, so thanks for the update.
Where does it say that it will require age verification?
The link you sent basically says "you pinky-promise that you're 18."
Later in the doc it also says "you promise not to send malware."
It's wild that all other comments in this thread (so far) seem to completely miss this nuance. There are lots of services that, in their terms, require users to be adults.
This type of age "identification" is a lot different than age verification, submission of ID, etc.
Came to say the same. Neither Ctrl+F by this human nor ChatGPT could find anything at all about age or identity verification. I think the title should be changed.
Zed already had terms of use that forbid "reverse engineering" (ie looking at the GPL source code).
Gram is a hard fork that removes the TOS, telemetry and AI, and turns Zed into just a text editor.
https://gram.liten.app/posts/first-release/
This was announced just recently[1]:
[1]: https://zed.dev/blog/terms-updateIs this because of the CA Age-verification law (AB 1043)?
https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab...
Misleading title. It's about using their AI service, not the editor.
The headline is tricky: identification != verification
Just wait until the data lobbies get done twisting the words.
Tons of services have terms of service that include a minimum age requirement. That doesn't mean they are _verifying_ those ages. Just that if you are not the minimum age, then you're in breach of the service terms and can be terminated.
YCombinator requires users to be at least 13 years of age. Does that mean HN is going to require age identification? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're a fucking text editor. You edit text. You do not need to know how old I am to edit text.
You don't raise $42M for just a text editor, it was always going to be a vehicle for services and subscriptions and whatever else they can think of.
I guess they don't want to restrict what you can do with it because of some badly worded law somewhere.
The age verification applies to using their account/ai not the editor itself.
I'm not in the habit of giving mice cookies.
I installed this one day to try it out and can't remember why I stopped, but apparently now I must hunt it down and destroy every trace of it from my machine, so thanks for the update.