Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors court filing alleges(www.reuters.com)
68 pointsby jethronethro11 days ago3 comments
  • ryandrake11 days ago
    These past few months have not been a great look for social media's AI solutions. Between this and Grok's Undressing[1] As A Service, social media's priorities seem to be kind of adrift.

    1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784478

    • Nevermark10 days ago
      Twenty years of consistent behavior, rewarded in hundreds of $ billions of market cap, doesn't look "adrift" to me.

      I think "relentless" or "disciplined" may be the words we are looking for.

      • Desafinado10 days ago
        Deliberately misinforming hundreds of millions of people during the most critical juncture in human history isn't what I'd call disciplined. There are other words for it.

        But they have made a lot of money, yea.

        • Nevermark10 days ago
          I agree with your assessment. The harm is massive, and the fallout is likely to be beyond historic.

          Why this hasn’t been a first class problem to solve with legislation is beyond me.

          • freejazz10 days ago
            >Why this hasn’t been a first class problem to solve with legislation is beyond me.

            Because many politicians benefit from it.

    • replooda11 days ago
      On the contrary, I believe they are, and have been for a while, sailing with clear purpose.
  • Desafinado10 days ago
    At least they're going to go down on the wrong side of history for the next two millennia. Maybe not worth the extra beach house.
  • dangus11 days ago
    Tech companies these days don’t even know why they lobby against regulations, they just do it out of blind habit.
    • Nevermark10 days ago
      It's about maximizing their power to operate without any oversight. I.e. not just getting rid of specific hampering regulations, but nullifying the regulators.
      • dangus10 days ago
        I just think the funny thing about it is that it doesn’t even seem to always be in their benefit.

        For example, it used to be that tech companies wanted more regulations to keep newcomers out of their space. If you have a lot of regulations it’s hard to disrupt an industry with a startup.

        I also think a more regulated AI industry with universal law-enforced privacy controls would lead to more consumer confidence and willingness to adopt the technology. It’s hard to adopt AI when I don’t really know what these companies are going to do with my data and I think they’re just going to lie and weasel word their way into harming me.

        • Nevermark10 days ago
          I happen to agree that privacy protection, from everyone it’s been a major problem for a couple decades of data hovering, would expand the consumer market for software & services.

          But it wouldn’t be the same actors.

          Which would be great, but it’s not an initiative in the interests of the current surveillance & “personalized” manipulation for sale giants.

        • freejazz10 days ago
          This is incredibly naive. What upstarts are they worried about? They can just buy them.

          Consumer confidence? Who cares. You aren't the customer and that hasn't harmed them.

          • dangus8 days ago
            I dunno, there’s a pretty substantial cultural AI backlash that is almost certainly costing sales. Over half of Americans have concerns about the technology [1].

            I think that backlash wouldn’t exist if the US had comprehensive privacy protections, strong environmental and consumer utility price regulations around data centers, and other implemented controls that would make use of AI feel much more guilt-free.

            [1] https://medium.com/@TheDailyReflection/the-great-ai-backlash...