The price of ChatGPT’s erotic chat? $20/month and your identity

The article argues that expanding age-verification requirements—spurred by laws and platform policies such as proposed “verified adult” erotica—normalizes digital ID checkpoints that link real identities to online behavior and increase breach and extortion risks. Citing recent verification-provider breaches (e.g., a Discord partner and AU10TIX), it contends these measures are easily bypassed (e.g., via VPNs), fail to protect children, expand surveillance and data-broker ecosystems, and risk mission creep to other sensitive content, while recommending privacy-preserving parental controls over mandatory ID uploads; it concludes with a promotion for Malwarebytes' Personal Data Remover.