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The Social Media Ban. However will the children survive?
On the 10th of December, Australia will implement a world first social media ban for children under the age of 16. I like it, at least at a surface level. Are there parts I don't like? Yes. Are there changes which should be made? Yes. Do I think more needs to be done? Yes.
Timothy Dobson
Dec 7, 20256 min read


Why aren't more people outraged at Meta's theft of millions of books to train its AI? Simple. We teach people not to value art.
Image from literary hub's article about Meta's data theft. AI are trained on stolen material, it's a tale as old as... itself. Recently, Meta have been found to have stolen millions of books to train its late to the party AI. Chances are, your favourite author had their book stolen (I guess to balance things out, your least favourite author did too). Why is theft on this scale not causing more outrage? We’ve been trained not to care… we’ve spent years, decades even, telling s
Timothy Dobson
Aug 7, 20255 min read
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