In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Sam Altman says OpenAI isn’t ‘moral police of the world’ after erotica ChatGPT post blows up (CNBC)
- Where are all the women on Sora 2? This could be a nightmare for OpenAI. (Business Insider)
- Musk’s AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: ‘Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!’ (Rolling Stone)
- Instagram Will Limit Content for Teenagers Based on PG-13 Ratings (NY Times)
- UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs (The Guardian)
- TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’ (The Guardian)
- New AI video tools are fuelling violent racism on TikTok (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
- New York City Sues Instagram Rather Than Teach Kids Filters Aren’t Real (Techdirt)
- Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows (NPR)
- Congress is Asking the Wrong Questions About Discord and Boys (Time)
- Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons (The Guardian)
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