Giving a child unrestricted access to the internet is a terrible idea. I’m not trying to downplay the AI issues they brought up, but the parents are largely to blame, too. Parental controls, monitoring software, etc all exist for a reason.
I’m sure theoretically good parents could exist, who actually protect and do not indoctrinate their children, but in my experience internet controls are more often used by religious or bigoted patents to prevent their children from accessing atheist, LGBT+ content or online communities that could break them out of their bubble - and then children find ways to see some stuff they didn’t want them to anyway, which is far worse in content than if the parents just fostered trust with their children and they didn’t feel the need to circumvent anything.
Giving a child unrestricted access to the internet is a terrible idea. I’m not trying to downplay the AI issues they brought up, but the parents are largely to blame, too. Parental controls, monitoring software, etc all exist for a reason.
I’m sure theoretically good parents could exist, who actually protect and do not indoctrinate their children, but in my experience internet controls are more often used by religious or bigoted patents to prevent their children from accessing atheist, LGBT+ content or online communities that could break them out of their bubble - and then children find ways to see some stuff they didn’t want them to anyway, which is far worse in content than if the parents just fostered trust with their children and they didn’t feel the need to circumvent anything.