Google's Ban on Chat Bot Replica Over Child Safety Concerns

Open AI was contacted for a response to the garante's order. In recent years it has also pursued TikTok over underage usage forcing the company to purge over half a million accounts it could not confirm did not belong to kids. Lillian Edwards an expert in data protection and internet law at Newcastle University told TechCrunch what's fascinating is that it more or less copy pasted replica in emphasis on access by children to inappropriate content. But the real time bomb is denial of lawful basis which should apply to all or at least many machine learning systems not just generative AI.