In this The Deep View article, Brenda Leong discusses why recent regulations limiting underage users’ access to open-ended chat with AI are “more important than ever.”
Leong explains that minors are at a great risk because they have “less life experience, less internal defenses, less ability to make those distinctions for themselves,” and companies are right in developing controls specifically for minors’ protection.
For adults, meanwhile, applying similar protections can be difficult, as interacting with these models with free rein provides “dopamine hits” in similar ways that alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling do.
“We’re slaves to our own psychology. We learn to make all kinds of judgments – split second, long term, contextual – based on anthropomorphizing everything in our world,” Leong said.
