Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google found new child safety group

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Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google found new child safety group
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The organization plans on providing free, open-source safety tools to public and private organizations to use on their own platforms, with a special focus on child safety to start. The press release announcing ROOST specifically calls out plans to offer"tools to detect, review, and report child sexual abuse material ." Partner companies are providing funding for these tools, and the technical expertise to build them, too.

The operating theory of ROOST is that access to generative AI is rapidly changing the online landscape, making the need for"reliable and accessible safety infrastructure" all the more urgent. And rather than expect a smaller company or organization to create their own safety tools from scratch, ROOST wants to provide them, free of charge.) started making their way through Congress, even though both failed to pass in the House.

. ROOST won't make all of these problems go away, but should make dealing with them easier for any other organization or company that finds itself in Roblox's position.

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