Meanwhile: down under 🇦🇺 #SocialMedia
With social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist' - Australia’s government spent the week boxing Big Tech - The fun started on Monday when prime minister Anthony Albanese announced his intention to introduce a minimum age for social media, with a preference for the services to be off limits until kids turn 16.
On Wednesday, Meta fronted a parliamentary Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence and admitted it has used Australians' posts to train its AI models – and has done as far back as 2007 – unless they were denoted as private, or posted by users under 18 years of age.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Adopting_Artificial_Intelligence_AI
When pressed on whether that meant pictures of minors posted by an adult, Facebook execs reportedly first said it wouldn't happen.......
then corrected their position and admitted images of minors could be ingested.
That admission didn't go down well.
More here:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/13/australia_vs_big_tech/