Online child safety's odd couple
Left-wing French politicians and Big Tech lobbyists aren't typical allies. But on kids online safety, they both reached the same conclusion.
IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and hope many of you are heading back to work after a restful (if hot) summer break. There's a lot to dig into for the Fall — buckle up.
— French lawmakers and US tech companies don't agree on much. But both believe efforts to protect children from harm on social media are undercooked.
— Washington is re-using its TikTok playbook to go after Chinese open-weight AI models. That does a disservice to the artificial intelligence industry in the United States.
— Roughly one-third of the English-language webpages have been written or edited via AI since OpenAI released Chat-GPT in late 2022.
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