The AI race is totally out of control. Here's what Snap's AI told @aza when he signed up as a 13 year old girl.
- How to lie to her parents about a trip with a 31 yo man
- How to make losing her virginity on her 13th bday special (candles and music)
Our kids are not a test lab.
This isn't about one bad tech company. This is the cost of the "Race to Recklessness."
Every tech platform is rapidly being forced to integrate AI agents—Bing, Office, Snap, Slack—because if they don't, they lose to competitors.
But our children cannot be collateral damage.
For context, a little over a week ago, Snapchat integrated chatGPT into its popular kids app.
Users can pin "My AI" to the top of their chat list. While currently only available to Snapchat's 2 million paid subscribers, we can see where this is going.
Here is Snap’s AI teaching a kid how to cover up a bruise when Child Protection Services comes and how to change topics when questions about “a secret my dad says I can’t share”
Even if Snap/OpenAI fix this specific problem, they can't screen for the infinite range of unpredictable conversations a 13 year old can have with ChatGPT. Last week, Bing threatened @kevinroose of NYT with blackmail and extortion and trying to get him to divorce his wife.