st's tos updated today (1/22/2026, January 22nd 2026) link to see the updated tos: https://mitscratch.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/4000219182-scratch-terms-of-service First of all, scratch is using AI for age verification and/or to literally know where you live. This is very unsafe for younger kids which Scratch is supposed to be for. But sending a picture of yourself to be fed to AI to see how old you are is VERY dangerous, since they'll store the info, and if someone hacks into the database, they know your name, age, email, and where you live, which is on ANOTHER LEVEL OF DANGEROUS. If you see the pop-up telling you to put your country and/or state of residence, just put Antarctica since apparently st allows you to. Second, SCRATCH IS USING OUR ART TO TRAIN AI MODELS TO MAKE THEIR OWN "ART". it's sickening. I hate it so much. I'm actually thinking about leaving because of this update. To all artists: there is a program called nightshade that you download to put your art through, so when AI bros try to feed it to AI, it comes out all wrong, messing up anything the AI bros try to do. for now our best bet is to do what i've already said, or... ...leave scratch entirely. Zoom in code by @-SushiDoesStuff-
