And if you know anything about young people you will know that they find ways to circumvent any restrictions place on them. Chat bots have introduced a tough variable
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Well the way they keep weaving AI into items whether or not you are requesting go use it or not, it becomes difficult to discern immediately if you are talking to a real person - the point being though is the burden does not fall on a programmed entity to decide when to intervene - it can't do that.
aug 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
No argument there. I was responding to the idea that there's a way to totally stop kids from engaging with it. You can put warnings all over it but kids still eat pesticide and do reckless things every day etc etc.
aug 26, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, the net nanny phase of the internet is definitely long gone for all but the youngest children - you can't just block and hide - as much as that's exactly the type of legislation they are trying to push these days - you have to educate and set a baseline for interacting - not easy for sure.
aug 26, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
There is no proper baseline for interacting with a product intentionally made to make users dependant on it. We've already done the same thing for social media and now we know stuff like infinite scroll/constant playlists/etc is harmful regardless of usage time.
aug 27, 2025, 1:35 am • 1 0 • view
Tech companies have shown time and time again they will maximize harm to maximize profits and only stop harming people after laws are implemented. What happened to Adam shouldn't have happened in the first place; these companies have gone on unregulated for too long.
aug 27, 2025, 1:35 am • 1 0 • view
Yeahhh - speaking for myself, as a kid I was too clever for my own good. I figured out how to plug the network cable back in, I figured out how to circumvent the browser blocks, I used the school/library computers that had weaker restrictions.
aug 26, 2025, 9:58 pm • 3 0 • view