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Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI (gizmodo.com)
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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

I can't say I knew, but it doesn't surprise me. The AI folk, among others, want to spy on us as much as possible, but they also know that if they opnly target the kids, they'll get destroyed by lawmakers and courts and public opinion, so they need to pretend that they're only fucking over adults.