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  • for a moment, let’s ignore all of the conspiratorial conjecture (not that it isn’t warranted).

    by exposing an API for web services to identify the users age/birthday, how does that solve the issue of “protecting children online”.

    what’s stopping a bad actor from identifying, tracking, and grooming children directly based on this same mechanism?

    right now the majority of kids online are protected through anonymity, but once they are identified they can be targeted directly and the adults responsible for their well being are blissfully unaware because “the government is tracking their age”.

    also. what comes next is worse than the date. online content ratings. because there’s no point in tracking age if you can’t apply a ratings system.

    Imagine entire swaths of the internet banned because the content rating doesn’t meet the government requirements.

    this is less about tracking users and more about censoring dissent.

















  • that was my point.

    most people hear the story and go, “ofc the hot coffee is fucking hot. what a fucking idiot.” but they don’t realize that she needed skin grafts on her inner thighs and vagina because the coffee was so hot it literally melted her skin off. they only know the case because McDonald’s ran a smear campaign against the victim and slandered her as an “idiot”. they only did that because their coffee machine was faulty and heated the drink up to near boiling temperatures. worst part is, they almost got away with it!

    how’s that phrase go? Regulations are written in blood.

    LLMs need to have regulations on what and who can interact with it. not because the users are “stupid” but because the nature of every company is to compromise your ability to make decisions based on sound judgment, and someone who already has their judgment impaired has no protection against that kind of manipulation.