The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes made under the OSA, many children saw age verification as an easy-to-bypass hurdle rather than something that kept them genuinely safe.

A full 46 percent of children even said that age checks were easy to bypass, while just 17 percent said that they were difficult to fool. The methods kids use to fool age gates vary, but most are pretty simple: There's the classic use of a video game character to fool video selfie systems, while in other instances, children reported just entering a fake birthday or using someone else's ID card when that was required.

Does anyone find this surprising ?Ask anyone who know how the internet works and most will say this won't work

When Google was founded in 1998 it solved a big problem: spammy and chaotic web. Does this sound familiar? Because it's happening again. The World-Wide-Web is still a place for everyone, but if it doesn't have good SEO nobody will find it. AI webs and images are surrounding the internet.

How is Google handling that? By deleting blue links and replacing them with AI agents. How are other search engines handling that? By creating blacklists and scanning websites using AI detectors. That will never work.

Well, I have an idea...

[ ? ] Basic concept

Basically, imagine Wikidata (a big database of lots of things filled with data, similar to Wikipedia), but not for objects, but for websites. Websites would have their own pages with information about them - what kind of website it is, whether it has ads, a short description, when it was created/who founded it, how big it is, etc. It would be all open-source and managed by the community.

[ * ] Features

Sounds weird, right? Why would someone do it? Well because of the advantages:

• You can filter your search in hundreds of ways! One example: you want to find something on a small forums, that are ad-free and founded more than four years ago for no AI garbage. On google? Impossible. In this idea you would just type it into the search. Super useful. Do you know any other search engines where you can do this? I don't.
• What about the history of websites? Normal search engines only work with how the pages look at the moment. But that's not always efficient. With a database of website history, a search engine can find out that a website has been changed (all its content) four times in a month. That's not how normal websites look, is it?
• Another thing is SEO. SEO requires experts and a lot of money. In this system, you just enter data into a database - anyone can do it!

[ @ ] Image search

These days, some AI images are that that realistic, that is impossible to tell if the image is AI or not. So we have to do it differently, not by checking when the image is already taken, but by when the image is being taken - insert cryptic metadata into the photo. And I'm not talking about that garbage EXIF metadata that can be overwritten, but about C2PA.

It's still not mainstream, but it's groundbreaking. It’s also the only way to make sure that the photo was taken by a human.

[ # ] Potential Challenges

As every project in it early stage, it have potential challenges. But they are not impossible to solve, they only require some effort. The database can be filled it can be full of spam from random people, from bots from anyone. To solve this problem, we would need to implement a system similar to the one used by Wikipedia.

Another thing, MONEY. I don't have any idea, how much it can cost, but it will be not for free.

The internet is changing rapidly. It would hard to keep the database fresh, hm? Well, bots can help a lot, by checking important info (if website is only or not and countless other details).

[ / ] Final though

I am releasing this here, because I want someone to make it real. I'm not planning to do it myself, I don't havr enough skills to do it. I just want to make search fun again.

If Wikipedia could build the world’s biggest encyclopedia from scratch, it's possible to build the world’s biggest web directory.

So there’s something I need to get off my chest, and if I post it on my LinkedIn it would be career suicide at my level.

In a company, the largest line item by far is usually payroll. I have been at a number of companies that are trying to cut costs and don’t care if you come up with the correct amount via other OpEx categories, they want headcount reduced because “it’s so much”.

So along comes the promise of a computer bot that understands the normal person and also:

• Does not require sick/vacation time
• Does not take FMLA
• Does not want a bonus/profit sharing/equity
• Don’t have to pay unemployment taxes, Medicare or SSI
• Does not require them to spend money on health insurance
• Will not form a union
• Wont ever file a lawsuit for any number of reasons
• Will work 24/7

And this right there is the exact reason so many CEOs are salivating at the idea of AI. Not for worker efficiency, not for any number of “positive” benefits they may taut, but they finally have a glimpse of the chance to rid themselves of one of the largest headaches that they perceive in a company.

President Trump is considering making an appearance at the N.B.A. finals next week, a rarity for an American leader, after his hometown New York Knicks clinched a championship spot, according to three people familiar with the matter.

An appearance by Mr. Trump at Madison Square Garden would be the latest incidence of a high-profile sports event serving as a backdrop for his presidency. Mr. Trump last year showed up at the Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, the U.S. Open men’s final and a Yankees game. He is currently erecting an octagonal cage on the South Lawn of the White House for an Ultimate Fighting Championship match on his birthday next month. He has maintained friendships with the leaders of sports organizations, including Dana White, the head of the U.F.C., to galvanize support in the “manosphere.”

If the Knicks had lost Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday, Mr. Trump had planned to make a surprise appearance among the team’s faithful at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, according to three people familiar with the planning. But after the Knicks completed a sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, the president is turning to the N.B.A. championship.

Mr. Trump has said in recent weeks that he remains a Knicks fan and has been following the team’s progress.

“I really like Jim Dolan a lot, I’m really happy for him and the team,” Mr. Trump said of James Dolan, the owner of the Knicks, the New York Rangers and Madison Square Garden, on WABC-AM, known as TalkRadio 77. “I think it’s great.”

The White House did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for Madison Square Garden said he did not know if Mr. Trump was attending the N.B.A. finals in New York, but that the president — no matter who holds the office — is always welcome at the venue.

Mr. Dolan has donated to Mr. Trump’s political campaigns over the years, and the two men have a longstanding friendship. In 2018, Mr. Dolan told ESPN that he got married at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club in Florida.

“I’m a member of Mar-a-Lago, and I support him as a friend,” Mr. Dolan said. “And you don’t have to agree with everything that he’s doing in order to support him. And he’s, by the way, our president, and I don’t understand people who wish our president to do badly. Why would you wish your president to do badly? It’s like wishing that your milkman will bring you sour milk.”

Other presidents have occasionally attended high-profile sporting events. Former President Barack Obama attended the N.B.A. finals in Toronto in 2019, although he was out of office by then. But few, if any, presidents have watched bruising fights ringside and embraced politically aligned athletes and sparred on social media with other players as Mr. Trump has.

But even Mr. Trump, a native New Yorker, may encounter a much different experience when attending the next Knicks game.

While he has been embraced by mixed martial arts fighters and some teams in the National Football League, Mr. Trump has had a fraught relationship with the National Basketball Association.

San Francisco’s Golden State Warriors decided not to make the customary White House visit after winning the N.B.A. championship in 2017, prompting Mr. Trump to accuse the N.B.A. star Stephen Curry of “hesitating” and to withdraw the team’s invitation. The Warriors were not invited for a visit when they won another championship in 2018, but they did partake in the tradition during the Biden presidency.

Mr. Trump has also publicly criticized other prominent players in the league. He attacked the intelligence of LeBron James in his first term after the N.B.A. champion mentioned in a CNN interview that he would never sit down with Mr. Trump.

The Knicks’ opponent could also feature a Trump critic.

They would play the winner of the Western Conference finals, in which the Oklahoma City Thunder are dueling the San Antonio Spurs. The star player of the Spurs, Victor Wembanyama, who is originally from France, expressed concern about living in the United States as a foreigner earlier this year when federal immigration agents shot and killed two American citizens. The Thunder also did not visit the White House after winning the N.B.A. championship last year, citing a “timing issue.”

Mr. Trump’s embrace of sports teams can occasionally cause internal turmoil.

The New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced Mr. Trump at a rally last week, in which Mr. Trump called the young player a “future Hall of Famer” and said he had “legs like tree trunks.”

The Giants linebacker Abdul Carter later questioned his teammate’s decision, writing on social media that he thought the episode “was AI, what we doing man.” Mr. Carter later said that he had spoken to his teammate and that they had resolved the issue.

Mr. Trump has been known to change his plans often, and it is possible he elects to stay away from the Knicks’ first appearance in the finals since 1999. But Madison Square Garden, known as the mecca of basketball, holds both personal and political appeal for Mr. Trump.

As the Knicks have dominated the playoffs, the arena has become a magnet for New York celebrities and elite. The actors Timothée Chalamet and Ben Stiller are among those who have joined former Knicks players in watching the team from courtside seats.

The arena also served as the setting for a crucial moment during Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. On the second-to-last Sunday before the 2024 election, Mr. Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden in which he unleashed a series of grievances and racism. One comic took the stage and dismissed Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47393990

Woman on ground: "How long will the ambulance be?"

Man aiding her: "Seventeen feet, six inches."

Probably just data mining