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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Good point. One parent in a previous link
apologised to their now adult children for buying them smartphones as children after explaining that, at the time, he simply wasn't aware of the damage that they could do or how addictive they could be.
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I wondered what their children thought of that?
Pussies.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
This programme looks at the indifference by social media companies regarding the deaths of children due to their inaction.
Deny, delay & deflect seems to be their strategy, but a psychologist says he lost sleep for weeks after viewing some if the posts in question.
The coroner for one child says that these posts affected her mental health in a negative way and contributed to her death in a more than minimal way (suicide.)
Generative AI is a new threat on the horizon as it can sound and act like a human, but it just "spews lies" and is said to be a threat to democracy. A Nobel Peace Prize journalist said that she was worried in 2016, but that 2024 will be a tipping point and elections could be impacted by this. She days she's gone from being a passionate supporter of new technology, to a skeptic and is now an activist against it.
The programme asks if, after 20 years, Silicon Valleys radical experiment to connect the world about to implode.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xlsl |
Surely the answer is to modify the current arrangements so that the people who upload this stuff can be identified, banned and where appropriate, prosecuted.
The online safety legislation puts impossible obligations on social media companies to remove these posts as soon as they appear. How on Earth do you make that work?
Talk about a cask-handed way of tackling a problem!