Major concerns over children's relationships with AI chatbots

[mylesillidge]

Legal expert warns about popular smartphone apps in South Africa that puts children at risk

Concerns are mounting over the surge in South Africans across all age groups who are in serious relationships with AI chatbots.

This is according to social media and law expert Emma Sadleir, who told Cape Talk that children as young as 9 have approached her and said their best friends are chatbots.

 

[RedViking]

The government and failed legal system is the biggest danger to children.

 

[DarkStarMonday]

She can be my legal expert any day !! rrrrrrrrr

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

She can be my legal expert any day !! rrrrrrrrr

She's the chatbot that people are having relationships with...

 

[Bad Ballie]

Pretty sure governments themselves are the reason society has headed in the direction it has.

 

[Johand]

I am constantly surprised by how terrible Meta is at putting parental controls on its services. It is like they want to be forced by legislation before they do anything at all and then they will just do the absolute minimum.

It will backfire though because as every country makes laws to protect their children they are going to end up with a million slightly different requirements laws will place on them.

 

[Justanotherguybythesea]

I am constantly surprised by how terrible Meta is at putting parental controls on its services. It is like they want to be forced by legislation before they do anything at all and then they will just do the absolute minimum.

It will backfire though because as every country makes laws to protect their children they are going to end up with a million slightly different requirements laws will place on them.

Because they make money off of data mining, and targeted adverts, so will do the bare minimum to comply, as the money from the data and ads is so much more per day than any fines, so it will always be the default. If the fines included actual prison time for executives, and a fine that was say 20% of the annual gross income, before any taxes, and they would have to pay it before they could file any appeal, it might motivate them. But fines of say $20 million represent a few seconds of income, and vanish into the accounting noise, and do not even make it into a line item on a detailed balance sheet, just merely being part of the 1 line legal and compliance costs, and certainly smaller than the line item of "facilitation fees" below it.