Google's AI search features pose 'unacceptable risk' to children
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Governments the world over I trying to push online surveillance programs as child protection initiatives.
Even if it was being viewed as genuine attempts to protect children from harmful online content, it's still shifts the burden onto the public.
AI stands to pause a very serious threat to children.... Both in allowing them to form very strange and nonsensical perceptions on the world. As well as robbing them of a chance to develop their own critical thinking. (Which I'm sure tech bros and really happy with)..
Get these super massive corporations aren't expected to do anything to protect children.
I don't see anything in that report that shouldn't be applied to adults either. Google shouldn't be providing curated instructions for creating deepfakes for anybody.
Parents can protect their children and let me tell you clearly, all other ways to "protect" the children are here to create surveillance for adults across the whole internet. Don't fall for it.
I mean, a broken clock is right twice a day.
If a child is immediately presented with potentially incorrect/actively harmful information as fact from a “trusted source”, that’s a problem.
Should parents be teaching their child that the information can be wrong? Yes. But a lot of parents also take that information as gospel. Hell, I know lots of IT peeps who read off Google AI results as truth without giving it a second thought.
There’s also the fact that parents aren’t given the ability to opt their child out of the AI search results.
This also doesn’t appear to be an attempt to “won’t someone think of the children‽‽” but instead an objective look at the problems with an LLM being used in the way Google is.