License to Spill

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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:

• FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (Krebs on Security)
• Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections (OpenAI)
• OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is Safer for Teens. Now It Needs to Show Proof (RAND)
• 'AI is less judgmental' (Washington Post)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• AI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere (Rest of World)
• Why the global push to break free from Big Tech keeps falling short (Rest of World)
• Meta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad (Rest of World)
• How AI is mapping the tree of life (Basecamp Research/Microsoft)

Our fun links this week include a Korean AI dance generator and defrag your Windows PC.

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).