Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14.

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• buffysummers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s what parents are for.

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  • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Only to a certain extent. What can they do against so many changes in the tech world. Just look at whatsapp that just introduced AI in their chat. There is a point when tech giants should just be strictly regulated for the interest of the public

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What can they do against so many changes in the tech world.

      Be involved in their kids’ lives? Tech isn’t the problem here, any more than it could have been TV, drugs, music, video games, D&D, or organized religion. Kids get into some dumb shit, just because it’s the hot new thing doesn’t make it any different.

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      • alecbowles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Lol be involved in kids lives? 🤣 I will guess you’re not a parent but yes.

        But I think you bring a very good point here about drugs, it’s not possible to shield your kid from everything even drugs. But the way things are going using a kid using drug may be less dangerous than a kid using the phone.

        Especially because most people don’t encourage kids to use drugs, while is the opposite with phones

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  • grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Right, shift the blame to the parents. Not the corporations targeting young kids and teenagers. No, the parents are supposed to watch their children and all of their devices 24/7. Growing up will soon feel like the Truman show. Privacy for children and teenagers? Hell no, parents need to be scared constantly because their kids could encounter something online which might make them suicidal because corporations don’t need to have any ethics or moral and they are surely not responsible for what their product causes.

    Where do we go from here?

    Cars that aren’t working correctly and could cause accidents? The driver is responsible!

    Food which is contaminated and could cause death. The one eating it is responsible!

    Welcome to the lovely new world where profit is everything and a human life is worth nothing.

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  • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, yes but stuff like chatbots, social media should be way better regulated.

    Right now we see the equivalent of people selling drugs and guns freely in the streets (including to toddlers) and expect the parents to regulate all that.

    Society is being actively eroded, while governments are fecklessly watching it happen.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Regulated how?

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      • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’d have to write 2 PhD thesis’s about this to answer this one question properly.

        Instead I’m just doing 2 examples and keep it shallow :

        Th is case: A 14yo should not have completely unsupervised access to an ai chat bot - it needs to be by family/child account, same as for e.g. Fortnite. Also, given the nature of the matter and looking at the article: if the chat turns ’disturbing’ the parent needs to be made aware. (Etc etc)

        Another case is TikTok: honestly, I’d just ban it together with shorts and reels. IMO this rots the brains of the younger generation. I’m not even sure there is a healthy way of consuming this type of content.

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because all the laws that were pushed in the last twenty-five years for protecting children weren’t actually about protecting children

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They’re all about increased conservative control over other people’s kids

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