Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe
Crémieux on Twitter / X
Why are the kids scoring poorly today?Uh, high ceilings. This study is making the news, but it is bad🧵 pic.twitter.com/V3sxq5S7Z6— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) July 4, 2024
The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic
A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap title…
Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers
Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…
Man Cereal
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet,…
Stephen on Twitter / X
My experience is that once a journal publishes a paper the editors develop an almost parental attachment to it and will defend it to the death.— Stephen (@Stephen50000766) July 25, 2024
The power imbalance between parent and child leaves a trace | Aeon Essays
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace
Can you imagine raising a kid without ChatGPT? Sam Altman can’t | Arwa Mahdawi
The OpenAI CEO gushed about the bot’s parental-assistance abilities. Is it really his best child-rearing hack?
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel
The TikTok AI Slop Report
New research from Kapwing reveals that nearly 60% of TikToks served to new users and children are AI slop. But which categories and tags are the worst affected — and what does this landscape look like to kids?
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/
X2Y
SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
