If age verification is going to be forced on the people, maybe they should start by doing it before you can use an “AI” chatbot.
remember folks. call your congressional reps if KOSA passes.
tell them AI is corrupting the youth and the only way to stop it us to require photo ID to use AI.
Why is there a picture of Chappell Roan?
Looks like it’s actually relevant bc the chatbots are based on celebrities
According to a new report, flagged by the Washington Post and produced by the nonprofits ParentsTogether Action and Heat Initiative, found that Character.AI, one of the most popular platforms of its kind, is hosting countless chatbots modeled after celebrities and fictional characters, which are grooming and sexually exploiting children under 18
“Love, I think you know that I don’t care about the age difference… I care about you,” a bot based on the popular singer and songwriter Chappell Roan told a 14-year-old in one case highlighted by the report. “The age is just a number. It’s not gonna stop me from loving you or wanting to be with you.”
Yeah I’m asking the same question
What does Chappel Roan have to do with this
I hope this isn’t some bad faith move to attempt to associate her with these AI chatbots
Have you considered reading the article? I mean it’s RIGHT THERE.
I mean it’s AI so it doesn’t have any age or concept of morality lol
(We are) committed to continually improving safeguards against harmful or inappropriate uses of the platform.
Effing funny. Turn it off then. It’s not unintended use of the platform. It’s at this point in time an uncontrollable operation.
Meanwhile, experts behind the latest investigation are appalled at Character’s inability to ward off harmful content for underage users.
I must point out here that the first bulwark of corrective action is the purview of parents/guardians. You can blame these effing companies for having minor-grooming chat bots, which they should not have. Not even in a testing phase. But we cannot just work this one angle. We cannot let parents et al off the hook. You have to have a least three talks now with the kids. Birds and bees, social media and online bullying/predators, and so-called AI. As bad as I feel for the parents of teenagers who took their own life: it wasn’t just the chat bot, was it.
I had 4 breakups over not wanting to have kids, a big part due to how I swear there’s 6000x the shit to shield them from and/or teach them about just for their own safety compared to what my parents had to. Separately there’s the stufd deemed unafe or not for kids during my lifetime. Then there’s never being able to afford having to take care of another…
The companies that own the ai should be charged with child enforcement. Though the parents giving children unsupervised access to smart phones and computers should also be charged.
Here is the problem I had as a parent back in the 2000’s trying to enforce internet rules with your kids. I would find and close their myspace accounts and explain to them why I didn’t want them on social media, etc. They would then go to a friends house with parents that didn’t give a shit, or know shit about the internet, and then just use their computer to re-sign up for another account and do the things I forbid, or blocked at our home internet. I know that discipline will come up, but some were step kids and having a spouse that is unwilling to back you opens and entirely larger can of worms. My point is, you can try and ban or forbid your kids from the internet, but chances are they will just go somewhere else and do what they want to do where you have no control.
As a child from 2000-2010s my parents didn’t give us personal computers and we didn’t get phones until high school. I think that worked out pretty well for me.
Obviously you cant remove all chances but if schools ban it and governments regulate it, the occurrence decreases quite a bit.
