Even more censorship is on the way. The Government has announced plans to force AI chatbots to comply with malicious communications laws – and to give itself Orwellian powers to bring in yet more speech restrictions without Parliamentary oversight. Toby writes about the moves in the Telegraph.
The Government intends to bring forward amendments of its own to the schools Bill that will supposedly close a loophole in the Online Safety Act to make sure AI chatbots comply with Britain’s draconian censorship laws. That will mean that if Grok says something in response to a user prompt that breaches, say, the Malicious Communications Act 1988, which was designed to protect women from obscene phone calls, Ofcom can fine its parent company £18 million or 10% of its annual global turnover. Whichever is the highest.
This is where censorship falls down. I can understand the argument for making pictures of CP illegal, because the kids in the pictures couldn't consent.
ReplyDeleteImages of non-consensual adult porn is a different matter. The images are always staged and consensual. You may not like the subject the images depict, but nothing illegal is going on in the pictures. Therefore they shouldn't be censored. The government should not be getting involved in Policing pictures created with consenting parties.
Now, when no live human meatbags were involved and the picture was generated entirely inside a computer, the argument for consent or lack of evaporates.
Are the government saying there's a huge rape crisis happening, fueled by AI images? What rape crisis would that be exactly? Maybe the government would like to have an enquiry to highlight the issue?
The list of VPN IPs is short and can be added to a list of blocked IPs. Several sites already do this and the published VPN providers can be blocked.
ReplyDeleteNow as usual, this doesn't stop the tech savvy and those with money as you can set up your own VPN server on servers abroad and because the IPs are not used much nobody will notice. You could even share them with your family and pals just not the public as some prodnose will turn you in to the gestapo.
'And as for the "ban" on VPNs ... yeah? How?'
ReplyDeleteOne at a time. With lavish publicity from the BBC. Word will get around. FUD works. FUD = Fear Uncertainty Dread.