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Their wordsAs machine learning models improve, it's likely that minors will be fully booted from the majority of the internet.
Their wordsI wish everyone giving this parenting advice were first required to actually try, for an hour, to configure a computer such that it gives a user the ability to meaningfully interact with the web without bombarding them with content selected to make them hooked and miserable. It can't be done.
Their wordsIf you could not make money off advertising to minors (say, because we imposed taxes on it like we do on tobacco), I suspect that would crush most of the slop-for-kids ecosystem.
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