Update: The Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance this bill on August 5, 2026. EFF continues to oppose the bill, which still needs approval from the full Senate. Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing education, and the way people search for information. Parents, teenagers, teachers, and...
How will they know which members of my family are teens if we never submit to age verification? /s
We run all AI locally, offline (as in iptables blocked). Screw data collecting tech giants. We encourage our kids to use our LAN “chatbot” service. Right now it uses a popular model abliterated (guardrails removed, realize its not the best, want to switch when unfiltered models get better).
Guess what, I’m the parent and can help teach my kids right from wrong. Don’t need you doing that for me, big tech. Information doesn’t make kids dumb, censorship does.
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/838/
For shame if my child attempts to bypass something! What, are you scared they might succeed if you don’t intervene…?
They’re going to assume you all are and lock you all out of everything. You will be forced to submit.
That’s why shit like this has to be defeated politically, not just worked around technologically.
By no means was I abdicating for inaction. People should absolutely be upset by this and speak out, and vote against those that oppress us.
Locking us out of everything is a bit of a stretch. Even if it comes to that point, its not like illegal content is hard to get (see: torrenting, usenet, MEGA, countless others).
For the average user, sure I guess a “fair” chatbot would be hard to come by (or rather too much work). Isn’t it already, though, was kinda my point.
yup, the article mentions this problem, starting with the absolutely true statement:
Technically, I think Google could probably scan my Gmail inbox and be fairly confident I’m not a minor anymore (because I have been getting emails minors typically wouldn’t for many years). But that wouldn’t help for any chatbots other than Gemini.