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Roblox to Use AI for User Age Identification but Aus Government Wants More

posted by hubie on Monday December 01, @07:07AM   
from the age-is-in-the-AI-of-the-beholder dept.

Roblox has plans to implement AI to guess user ages but the Australian Labour Government thinks more should be done to protect young people and that the current solution offered by Roblox is insufficient. There is still debate for whether or not Roblox should count as "social media" and be included in the new age restriction laws.

Roblox rolling out new safety measures to stop kids chatting with adults has done little to win favour with Labor, with the Albanese government saying all digital platforms should be proactively protecting "young Australians".

[...] The new measurers, which start in the first week of December, include age-based chats that restrict players from speaking to people outside their age group.

[...] Despite having social elements, Roblox insists it is not a social media.

The eSafety Commissioner agrees but is reviewing whether to include it in the social media ban.

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Original Submission

• We need a new internetWe need a new internet (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 01, @03:34PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 01, @03:34PM (#1425515)

  This one is suffering from too much blockage, needs a laxative, at least..

  Besides, the kids are the wrong target. People over 18 are the much bigger problem

• Re:We need a new internetRe:We need a new internet (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 01, @10:17PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 01, @10:17PM (#1425544)

  The internet is not the problem. The billionaires (and indirectly their bought politicians) are.

  Kill the billionaires (financially or literally, I don't care) and politicians stop being bought by billionaires. No matter how complicated you want it to be, it's not complicated.

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  • Re:We need a new internet(Score: 3, Interesting) by wirelessduck on Tuesday December 02, @11:04AM

    by wirelessduck (3407) on Tuesday December 02, @11:04AM (#1425581)

    When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich

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• Re:We need a new internet(Score: 3, Insightful) by jb on Tuesday December 02, @07:51AM

  by jb (338) on Tuesday December 02, @07:51AM (#1425574)

  There's no technical barrier to stop anyone who wants to from going back to building ad hoc networks of UUCP links and running store-and-forward implementations of mail & news (and all those '80s hacks like ftp-over-mail that went with them). Such networks require no centralised infrastructure at all so are extremely difficult to regulate.

  But that only gets you freedom from pernicious regulation: one of the biggest benefits of anything that's built by engineers for engineers.

  On the other hand, many of the people complaining loudest about the most recent round of pernicious regulations seem to be more interested in access to hundreds of millions of eyeballs.

  Those two design goals are not really compatible with each other.

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