I remember spending hours with SmarterChild for a while in my preteen years. Young people can just get fascinated with things like this quite easily. I grew out of it after a few weeks.

Nowadays I use AI rarely, certainly not for hours. So I don’t see a reason to panic about future generations.

Oh come on. I dislike copyright law as much as anyone, but this just makes the case against it look stupid.

See also: Windows Live, Surface, 365

I still wonder why video is about the only thing for which a restricted format is still the “industry standard”?

We nowadays take photos in JPEG or WebP format, draw raster images in PNG or WebP format, vector graphics in SVG format, our documents are PDF or OOXML or ODF or HTML, all of which are (at least technically) open standards. Video is the only thing that still mostly runs on formats with restrictive patents.

I think it’s just a video version of this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/49/

I agree, but I think here “accidentally” is used in an ironic manner because this is of course not actually a bad thing.

speak for yourself

Why do you think it is “just about Jerusalem”?!

Also I need to check whether there is a “title gore” community here on Lemmy already.

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If not the why doesn’t one group with their allies more inside.

This really has the potential to be the next “has anyone really been far even as decided…”.

Ok, books might not be what you want for children who can’t read yet though. 😉

Are there no mobile apps available with human-curated collections of children’s videos?

YouTube is not going to be a place where you’re going to have any reliable quality control. It’s literally (by design) videos uploaded by anyone on the Internet. That’s not by itself a problem, but the idea that it’s a good way to keep very small children entertained is definitely not one I would agree with.

I think big tech has proven that it cannot be trusted. Their priorities are simply not in alignment with our own.

agreed

Legislation seems to be the only lever that can hope to rein them in (market forces are no longer strong enough).

I don’t agree. The Internet, at least when not regulated to death, allows new websites to rise and old ones to fall, this has happened many times and can happen again in the future.

At the same time, smaller networks do not have the resources to comply with government regulations to a T

agreed

and so they should be given a longer leash

Not easy to implement in terms of legislation.

Governments also do not have the resources to chase down

and you want to rely on governments not having resources to do things that laws say they could do?

algorithms are

Everything that happens on a computer is based on algorithms. Chronological sorting of everything you’re following is still an algorithm. But I get what you mean.

I agree with you that modern personalized recommendation algorithms like the big social media platforms are based on are not a good thing (for people of any age). They break the Internet’s original promise that it should be the general public who decides on what we exchange ideas about on the Internet. They turn social media operators into (essentially) media companies by picking winners with lots of reach and losers with little reach…

But none of that has anything to do with how old any users are.

u wot m8

The article simultaneously takes the positions:

• that it’s a good and acceptable thing that governments are banning social media for young people, prescribing how social media companies must design their platforms, that the recent court ruling on “social media addiction” was well decided. (in the section “How Governments Are Regulating Social Media”)
• that we should move to services independent from big tech companies, such as the fediverse. (in the section “How Social Media Platforms Could Be Redesigned”)

Do they not see that these are, at least in practice, contradictory positions? For big tech companies, it’s possible to comply with the kinds of government regulations described there, they have hordes of lawyers who can advise them how to do that. For fediverse instance admins meanwhile, it is a lot more difficult to do that. The future of the fediverse absolutely depends on governments staying out of the Internet as much as possible, especially from applying their laws to foreign website operators. All that government regulation does is make sure no one who doesn’t have a revenue from which they can pay any claims they are liable for can ever operate a website where users can participate.

more national instances would probably solve that, i think, so you can just go to your local one.

That’s roughly how I chose my instance… I thought I’d choose an instance geographically close to me for latency reasons and such. I didn’t know anything about different Lemmy instances at the time and didn’t (for example) know that my instance actually hosts very few popular communities, so I’d be participating mostly in remote ones. :D

https://xkcd.com/810/ was oddly prophetic

If you aren’t buying premium, maybe you are instead saving money to buy some of the things that are advertised to you. I have plenty of disposable income and could probably buy some of the things I see in ads; I don’t like wasting money on things I don’t need, so I buy neither YT Premium nor most things that I see in ads.

Also, if some of the things that are advertised to you are things you do occasionally need (like food), then your argument likewise doesn’t work.

The UK government decided in 2022 not to amend the Gambling Act 2005 to include loot boxes, saying no evidence showed a “causative link” to harms.

Since when has that been something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens’ digital freedoms?

Seriously though; most citizenship tests I’ve seen in my life (on the Internet; I’ve never changed my citizenship, so have never actually taken one) ask about things like how various governmental institutions work, not the dimensions of randomly selected landmarks. Is this a well known piece of information in the UK?

There are many countries where that is the case for various political offices… the two houses of Congress in the US also have (somewhat lower) age requirements.

Is the source code already available?