I mean, and everyone jot this down, fuck Discord

Nothing good ever happens with Discord

Im convinced this and the similar age “verification” for Roblox using face pictures is just to help train AI on faces and has little to do with any of the safety bullshit.

Even if the image isnt saved, they can still presumably add it to training data during the verification process before tossing the file. This is pretty standard course for most image processing AI stuff.