Rated R for Ridiculous

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• Sam Altman says OpenAI isn’t ‘moral police of the world’ after erotica ChatGPT post blows up (CNBC)
• Where are all the women on Sora 2? This could be a nightmare for OpenAI. (Business Insider)
• Musk’s AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: ‘Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!’ (Rolling Stone)
• Instagram Will Limit Content for Teenagers Based on PG-13 Ratings (NY Times)
• UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs (The Guardian)
• TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’ (The Guardian)
• New AI video tools are fuelling violent racism on TikTok (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
• New York City Sues Instagram Rather Than Teach Kids Filters Aren’t Real (Techdirt)
• Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows (NPR)
• Congress is Asking the Wrong Questions About Discord and Boys (Time)
• Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons (The Guardian)

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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).