Like I said they're not worried about the 13 year olds theyre worried about the media cooking up a faux outrage about 13 year olds
YouTube re engineered its entire approach to ad placement because of a story in the NY Times* shouting about a Proctor Gamble ad run before an ISIS recruitment video. That's when Brand Safety entered the lexicon of adtech developers everywhere.
Edit: maybe it was CNN, I'm trying to find the first source. there's articles about it since 2015 but I remember it was suddenly an emergency in 2017
*Edit Edit: it was The Times of London, this is the first article in a series of attacks, "big brands fund terror", "taxpayers are funding terrorism"
Luckily OpenAI isn't ad supported so they can't be boycott like YouTube was, but they still have an image to maintain with investors and politicians
No, and they can find porn on their own too. But social media services still have per-poster content ratings, and user-account age restrictions vis-a-vis viewing content with those content ratings.
The goal isn’t to protect the children, it’s CYA: to ensure they didn’t get it from you, while honestly presenting as themselves (as that’s the threshold that sets the moralists against you.)
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Such restrictions also can work as an effective censorship mechanism… presuming the child in question lives under complete authoritarian control of all their devices and all their free time — i.e. has no ability to install apps on their phone; is homeschooled; is supervised when at the library; is only allowed to visit friends whose parents enforce the same policies; etc.
For such a child, if your app is one of the few whitelisted services they can access — and the parent set up the child’s account on your service to make it clear that they’re a child and should not be able to see restricted content — then your app limiting them from viewing that content, is actually materially affecting their access to that content.
(Which sucks, of course. But for every kid actually under such restrictions, there are 100 whose parents think they’re putting them under such restrictions, but have done such a shoddy job of it that the kid can actually still access whatever they want.)
I believe they are more worried about someone asking for instructions for baking a cake, and getting a dangerous recipe from the wrong "cookbook". They want the hallucinations to be safe.
