@arstechnica I know invoking kid safety really galvanises action and emotion but it's a general purpose privacy issue where everyone is part of a non-consensual data corpus.
@arstechnica “And at a time when middle and high school-aged students are at greater risk of being targeted by bullies or bad actors turning "innocuous photos" into explicit imagery…”
So just.
In schools or in social media, children and adults, we are all vulnerable in front of bad actors infiltrating our private data or altering our public information.
@arstechnica Crazy how all these big techs cry about "AI safety" about hypothetical science fiction terminator scenarios, and not a single one mentions the massive privacy invasiveness by these companies.
@arstechnica tgroughout my childhood, I always told my parents not to put pictures of me on FB. They didn't listen to me. Maybe they just thought I was being obnoxious (which, in fairness, was my intention at the time moreso than privacy). I wish they'd listened
@arstechnica You know what? We were warned not to post childrens' pictures, etc., on social media years ago, long before AI data mining was a practical thing. And we did it anyway.