Zed will require age identification for its services

bena

You're a fucking text editor. You edit text. You do not need to know how old I am to edit text.

bigyabai

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”).

xxpor

The headline is tricky: identification != verification

jrm4

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.

bradreaves2

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."

0xdade

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)_/¯

steeve

Misleading title. It's about using their AI service, not the editor.

AceJohnny2

Is this because of the CA Age-verification law (AB 1043)? https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab...

thomascountz

This was announced just recently[1]: Age requirement. You must be 18 or older to use Zed’s AI-enabled software-as-a-service offering (the “Service"). [1]: https://zed.dev/blog/terms-update

doug-moen

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/

sshine

Vim already has age enforcement: You’ll grow old before you manage to exit!

rtcode_io

Zed is gone! Can't let a text buffer humiliate us.