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Cake day: September 26th, 2024

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  • I’ve never knowingly engaged with a proper chat bot beyond the ‘virtual help desk’ things some sites use. By proper I mean some sizable system beyond what can be typically run at home.

    Home ran ones are bizarre though, so far whatever I try they get stuck on go-to phrases and tend to return to specific formats of response over and over. Very much not passing the turing test.


  • Indeed, politicians do love to claim power and control wherever they can and kids are a handy excuse often enough.

    As to the parents, at least in the USA my take is that so many are overwhelmed with how to handle it that if you get someone in power saying “we will make the internet safe for you, no effort needed” they jump all over it.

    I’m in my 40’s and none of the things out there on the web that kids are doing even existed when I was their age, so there are plenty of people who are really the first generation to be sorting out how to deal with this stuff for our kids. Given my work I’m better equiped than most, but it’s still possible to get caught off guard


  • We have proxies, we have DNS filters, we have pre configured software packages you can install with a few clicks. Net filtering is not all that difficult.

    We also have a planet full of people throwing up their hands and passing off responsibility for guiding and watching their kids to ‘someone else’.

    It takes effort people, and discussions that can be difficult, and you might need to learn a tech trick or two, but it’s not impossible. Stop screwing everyone over because you want big brother to take care of the hard work for you.