Being anti-AI in a world where AI is literally everywhere is getting quite exhausting. No I don’t want to read your AI book, no I don’t want to see your AI poster, no I don’t want to see an AI photo of you with your dead grandad, GET AWAY FROM ME I AM LOSING MY MINDDDDD
The last sentence is the real meat and potatoes of this.
What's being promoted as a 'social media ban for children', is really an ID check for every adult.
The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.
Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.
This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.
And they can do so in secret.
The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.
AI usage has been shown in several peer reviewed studies to reduce mental capacity. This will worsen not reduce inequalities in education, and is ultimately a social experiment on poor kids to prop up the profits of tech companies. Disgusting.
Brits might find it jarring whenever Americans comment about how we're a police state but it's pretty hard to rebuke it in good faith when our government wants North Korean style surveillance.
I would have been one of the kids qualifying for this. It would have ruined my chances and I certainly wouldn't have two degrees now and gotten a First in one of them. This is proven to destroy your brain and it's disgusting the poors are the test subjects for this