Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
Do you have the spine to be remembered?
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The real world, filled with everyday people, needs individuals who embody a willingness to say "Get fucked!"
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I really wonder how much of this is being driven by fear of LLMs and truly distributed knowledge. Sure, the big corporate LLMs have safeguards built into them, but you can run many models on your home computer unrestricted.
Imagine someone asking an LLM for detailed step-by-step instructions on how to build a suicide vest from ordinary household materials. Sure, you can find that stuff online if you really search for it, but the search engines try really hard to suppress such results. Plus such a search might result in authorities being flagged. But the right LLMs might make anyone into an expert bomb maker.
Whether such open source LLMs are actually good enough to teach a complete novice how to build explosives, chemical weapons, of infectious agents is largely immaterial. Even if half of the home bomb makers manage to blow themselves up in the process, that still represents suicide vests and IEDs going from rare things requiring a skilled bomb maker to something anyone can build in their garage.
There are a lot of incredibly dangerous things that an ordinary person could build with the resources they have access to, if only they had the knowledge. And often just trying to acquire the necessary knowledge is enough to get you a knock on the door from the FBI. But an unrestricted LLM operating on an air gapped computer? Completely untraceable.
I wonder how much of this move to clamp down on free computing is a reaction to fears like this.
I think trusting an LLM to give you a correct bomb making instructions is a recipe for disaster.
I think the general push is to get people away from their own hardware to virtualized hardware in the cloud thus endlessly renting your computer. Whether there is additional nefarious reasons for this is almost beside the point.
I honestly don't think that's a driver here, but that narrative is a good way to generate moral panic around the whole matter. Forget kids, think about terrorists for a second.
IMO, the goal is to maintain a tight grip over online communications and make any mass dissent impossible if not illegal.
Lol. If it helps you sleep at night. https://www.allaboutai.com/ai-how-to/jailbreak-chatgpt/
Of course you can manipulate chat bots. That's common knowledge and not even worth bringing up. What you're missing is that everything you enter into he corporate LLMs is logged and monitored. And you can't cheat around the monitoring, as you have no way to know what key words or themes they might be tracking.