Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with a chatbot and took his own life at 14. His mother has now filed a lawsuit against the most powerful company in the world.
And adults too. When you combine “the law says you can’t offer this service to children or we’ll destroy you” with “there’s no way to reliably tell if the people we’re offering this service to are children” the result is “guess we can’t offer this service to anyone.”
Because all the laws that were pushed in the last twenty-five years for protecting children weren’t actually about protecting children
They’re all about increased conservative control over other people’s kids
And adults too. When you combine “the law says you can’t offer this service to children or we’ll destroy you” with “there’s no way to reliably tell if the people we’re offering this service to are children” the result is “guess we can’t offer this service to anyone.”
True. They start with the kids because they have no rights then expand once they have the foothold. We need to push back