… Link: Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety | https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/florida-sues-openai-sam-altman-saying-put-profit-safety-rcna347602 | NBC News
The state of Florida is suing TikTok over claims the company isn’t complying with the state’s child safety law, which bans kids under 14 from creating social media accounts, as reported earlier by Reuters. …
… Last April, OpenAI rolled back an update to its GPT-4o model after finding that it can be “overly flattering or agreeable.” The company has also attempted to address safety concerns by updating ChatGPT to better detect mental or emotional distress, adding parental controls, and allowing users to ad… …
… We look forward to addressing the Texas Attorney General’s allegations in court and further explaining our industry-leading, kid‑friendly parental controls and transparent privacy practices. …
… When he and others raised concerns, he says, Musk argued that OpenAI’s for-profit makeover created incentives to disregard safety, but his own xAI is for-profit and has, at best, a haphazard approach to safety. …
… Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides Lauren Feiner Mar 24 Meta’s reckoning over kids safety is in the hands of two juries Lauren Feiner and Adi Robertson Mar 24 Elizabeth Lopatto Mar 19 More on free speech hero Afroman. …
… Earlier this week, reports leaked that the White House had told child safety groups and Big Tech companies that it would endorse a slate of children’s online safety laws backed by Sen. Marsha Blackburn R-TN , the coauthor of the Kids Online Safety Act KOSA , as part of an overall preemption package. …
… In March, a Santa Fe jury determined that Meta committed 75,000 violations of the state’s Unfair Practices Act, finding it misled users about the safety of its products for teens and engaged in unconscionable trade practices by facilitating child predators on its services. …
… Those changes include adding age verification for New Mexico users, prohibiting end-to-end encryption for users under 18 and capping their use to 90 hours per month, limiting engagement-boosting features like infinite scroll and autoplay, and requiring Meta to detect 99 percent of new child sexual … …
… The proposal would require companies to collect only the user data they really need to perform the tasks they promise, let users see what information websites have on them and request its deletion, and require explicit opt in for collecting sensitive data like location or sexual orientation. …