Australia will consider requiring app stores to block AI services without age verification

Maybe I’m just tired but this reads like a fucking riddle.

They want to block “app stores” that don’t block “AI apps” that don’t block “harmful content” from kids?

(And of course it’s left lovely and murky what any of those terms actually mean.)

I mean there are questions being asked about online gambling ads again. Time to find some other way to “protect the children” to avoid having to legislate around something with actual societal consequences, and lobbyists.

Has someone already tried to solve the world’s energy problems by hooking up a generator to John Perry Barlow’s grave?

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

block AI services

Yes

without age verification

Goddamnit, you dense motherfuckers…

Skip the age verification, just block Ai.

The ship has already sailed on that, with programs like AnythingLLM - you can very easily run your own local mode. You don’t need to interact with the companies, only their training data (and putting in your own default system prompt, they’re fairly easy to “jailbreak").