WIRED Roundup: The Right Embraces Cancel Culture
Manisha Krishnan: I therefore think that it is a little important to contextualize this, because this happens at a time when we see that age verification applied to a range of porn industries in video games, and companies do different ways. And although I think there is obviously a lot of things to worry about the access of young people without hindrance to Chatgpt, I think that these efforts always raise many questions as how will age be checked? Where will these data be stored? Even the idea of something inappropriate inappropriate parents or the authorities, what is appropriate?
Zoë Schiffer: RIGHT.
Manisha Krishnan: I can certainly see why suicide would be something you would like to point out, but maybe there are other things that the authorities or parents of someone may not be useful in all situations. And I guess I think more when we go in the exploration of young people from their sexual orientation, just like an example that the subject of the cultural war which is great at the moment. So maybe I get too advanced on myself, but these are some of the questions that come to mind.
Zoë Schiffer: It was immediately what came to my mind, especially because you report specifically on the content industry for adults, and I have the impression that this problem always happens where it is the compromise between private life and the maintenance of people? But with regard to young people, it really seems that the confidentiality conversation comes out of the window and the regulators are much more inclined to be like, security comes first, and we do not necessarily care if we degrade private life in a fundamental way.
Manisha Krishnan: Yes, with all the porn conversation too, Pornhub has obviously a litany of controversy, but at this stage, because they have been so in trouble that they have buttoned a lot of their regulations. And now, in response to age verification stuff, they have withdrawn. So you are also: “Do I open a void to other sites may be more harmful or irresponsible?” There is always something that will appear to replace something else.
Zoë Schiffer: Well, we will wait to see how Openai continues to manage this. By remaining on the subject of AI for a moment, our next story concerns the way in which American technology giants invest billions of dollars in IA infrastructure in the United Kingdom. Our colleague, Natasha Bernal, reported that Microsoft and Nvidia have announced that they would invest up to $ 45 billion in the form of data and research centers on AI. This occurs in the heels of another joint venture of Nvidia, Nscale and Openai which also aims to stimulate AI infrastructure in the country. Earlier this week, Openai CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, traveled with President Trump in the United Kingdom during his state visit, then we got a lot of announcements on all these investments of a billion dollars.
Manisha Krishnan: Honestly, one of my first reactions is that it is just another form of propagation of American technological imperialism and how the British feel on this subject and what is the underlying motivation for these technological companies to make all these announcements? Do they really want to invest as much in the United Kingdom? It would make sense, but is it also to appease Trump?
