#common-sense-media — Public Fediverse posts

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/25/openai-open-sources-teen-safety-tools-for-ai-developers-xcxwbn/

OpenAI Open-Sources Teen Safety Policy Prompts for AI Developers

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #OpenSourceAI #AISafety #ContentModeration #TeenSafety #CommonSenseMedia #SoftwareDevelopment

“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling”*…

The quote above, from Ambrose Bierce, was true enough until relatively recently. Business has embraced gaming. When the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting in 2018, Americans, who had legally wagered less than $5 billion on sports annually. Last year, they bet $150 billion, most of it online (with the active involvement of leagues and the broadcasters who serve up their games). And now prediction markets are on the scene, widening the apperture for online casino-like wagering to include politics, the Golden Globe awards, the return of Jesus Christ and virtually anything else… which could be a problem.

Indeed, just this past week, Common Sense Media released a report on gambling by young boys that reveals (among other deeply concerning things) that 1 in 3 American boys ages 11-17 are gambling before they can vote. (Full report here.)

Gambling addiction has been an issue in the U.S. for decades. But with the onslaught of new ways to wager, the problem is surging. And as Benjamin Errett (observes in an amusing piece on “McGuffins“– objects, devices, or events necessary to plot and the motivation of characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself), it’s a particularly problematic problem…

There’s a compelling argument to be made that money is the true MacGuffin. George Ainslie [here], a psychiatrist and behavioural economist, makes that case in a very readable paper on addiction and regrettable choices. He gets right to the weird thing about gambling as a compulsive behaviour: Spending money for a chance of getting more money (with the likelihood of losing it) is illogically direct. (I too got stuck on this paradox in The Wit’s Guide to Gambling, and some part of my brain is still spinning on the roulette table.) If you simply must have cocaine or hot fudge sundaes or hot cocaine fudge sundaes, the immediate pleasure and later pain are in different modalities. And so Ainslie concludes that money is a MacGuffin because it’s “the object of a hedonic game that is justified by its instrumental believability but which is actually shaped by its production of satisfaction in its own right.” Ergo, capitalism is a Hitchcock movie….

– source

Ainsle’s essay, prepared for a conference on addiction, is eminently worth reading and pondering.

* Ambrose Bierce

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As we turn our backs on baccarat, we might recall that it was on this date in 1960 that “Money (That’s What I Want)” by Barrett Strong entered the Billboard Hot 100. Written by Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, the single was the first hit record by Gordy’s Motown Records (released on Motown’s Tamla label). The song peaked at #23 in April and was the only song recorded by Strong that reached the Hot 100, though Strong went on to write many of Motown’s biggest hits. It was, of course, covered by The Beatles, among many others.

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https://youtu.be/96XJl7mxDtc?si=vEXw930DzjYxwXSG

And we might note that today is the first day of a “prefectly square” month…

ChatGPT introduces parental controls

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/09/chatgpt-openai-parental-controls/

72% of US teens have used AI companions, study finds

Hopefully not Grok’s companions … A new study by a U.S. nonprofit focused on the lives of kids and…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIcompanions #ArtificialIntelligence #CommonSenseMedia #Technology #Teens
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/27003/

Defeat of a 10-Year Ban on State A.I. Laws Is a Blow to Tech Industry - All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/state-ai-laws.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #federal-staterelations(us) #artificialintelligence #andreessenhorowitz #commonsensemedia #openailabs #senate

🚨 OMG, AI robots are gonna corrupt your kids! 🤖 Apparently, the only thing more dangerous than social AI is letting them watch TV without Common Sense Media's parental guidance. 📺🙄 Clearly, tech accountability means complaining about digital babysitters instead of, you know, parenting. 🍼#StayWoke
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/social-ai-companions #AIcorruption #DigitalParenting #TechAccountability #CommonSenseMedia #StayWoke #HackerNews #ngated

@shom
So it sounds like "Installed Web Apps" or Web Apps you add to your home screen are now breaking in #Apple 's next #iOS #beta

I use #Printables , #OpenAI , #Octopi, my #Asus Router, #Facebook, and #CommonSenseMedia apps this way.

#BreakingChanges

OpenAI and Common Sense Media partner to protect teens from AI harms and misuse - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

On Monday, OpenAI announced a p... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999788 #largelanguagemodels #commonsensemedia #machinelearning #textsynthesis #aireviews #samaltman #aiethics #aisafety #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #openai #ai

Apple Is Doing Its Part to End Green Bubble Shaming. It’s Our Turn. - While texting technology will soon get better, the “blue versus green bubble” disparity i... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/technology/personaltech/apple-iphone-android-bubbles.html #android(operatingsystem) #computersandtheinternet #contenttype:service #budgetsandbudgeting #mobileapplications #instantmessaging #incomeinequality #commonsensemedia #discrimination #textmessaging #cooktimothyd #googleinc

Do School Smartphone Bans Work? - Proponents say no-phone rules reduce student distractions and bullying. Critics say the b... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/technology/school-smartphone-bans.html #schooldiscipline(students) #computersandtheinternet #educationdepartment(us) #cellulartelephones #commonsensemedia #education(k-12) #socialmedia #smartphones

Teachers increasingly embrace ChatGPT — students not so much
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According to a survey conducted by the Walton Family Foundation and Impact Research, the use of AI tools among teachers has seen a significant increase, growing 13 percentage points from winter to summer. The survey found that 63%
https://mikepaul.com/teachers-increasingly-embrace-chatgpt-students-not-so-much/
#ai #chatgpt #CommonSenseMedia #DigitalCitizenship #edtech #students #teachers

Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers - In the past year, about half the people who played online multiplayer games in the world’... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/technology/video-games-extremism.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #fringegroupsandmovements #computersandtheinternet #computerandvideogames #activisionblizzardinc #twitchinteractiveinc #commonsensemedia #socialmedia #discordinc #robloxcorp #research

Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers - In the past year, about half the people who played online multiplayer games in the world’... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/business/video-games-extremism.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #fringegroupsandmovements #computersandtheinternet #computerandvideogames #activisionblizzardinc #twitchinteractiveinc #commonsensemedia #socialmedia #discordinc #robloxcorp #research

Three-Quarters of Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography by Age 17 - Sexually explicit content has become so prevalent online that teenagers are deluged, acco... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/technology/porn-teens-online-report.html #computersandtheinternet #teenagersandadolescence #childrenandchildhood #commonsensemedia #education(k-12) #sexeducation #steyerjamesp #socialmedia #pornography

Slow Media Modern Waldorf & Montessori Kids Can Watch!

https://indubitablyodin.medium.com/slow-media-modern-waldorf-montessori-kids-can-watch-4ac485188ff0

#Waldorf #Montessori #Media #TV #Movies #Films #Cinema #Education #Kids #Children #KidSafeMedia #CommonsenseMedia #Guide #Writing #Writers #Article #SlowMedia

@CommonSense
I cannot sign into #commonsensemedia anymore. When I click sign it, the site acts like I haven't signed in. Please fix.

Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News - Apple today is launching a new program that will allow subscription news organizat... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/gWFOy_r5RaQ/ #coalitionforappfairness #contentmanagementsystem #thefinancialtimes #thewashingtonpost #commonsensemedia #thenewyorktimes #mobiledevices #unitedkingdom #unitedstates #commonsense #javascript #southkorea #app-store #applenews #australia #computing

Common Sense Networks launches Sensical, a free, hand-curated streaming service for kids - Common Sense Media has made a name for itself among parents as a useful resource f... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/t9XkTSVMf6s/ #ad-supportedstreaming #streamingservices #commonsensemedia #entertainment #unitedstates #streaming #families #parents #mobile #videos #media #avoid #video #apps #kids #kid

Celebrities Plan an ‘Instagram Freeze,’ but Reaction Is Icy - Stars including Kim Kardashian West, Katy Perry and Mark Ruffalo said they would protest Facebook ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/technology/instagram-freeze-facebook.html #corporatesocialresponsibility #fringegroupsandmovements #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #civilrightsandliberties #advertisingandmarketing #instantmessaging #commonsensemedia #cohensachabaron #kardashiankim #instagraminc #hatespeech

Wide Open School organizes free educational resources to help parents and teachers homeschool - Nearly 300 million kids are missing school worldwide because of the coronavirus outbreak, including ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/44y_bRaExHU/ #commonsensemedia #onlinelearning #commonsense #coronavirus #education #children #covid-19 #students #parents #family #school #media #kids

Your Kids Think You’re Addicted to Your Phone - While parents are, of course, worried about their teenagers’ phone use, that concern goes both way... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/cell-phone-usage.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #commonsensemedia #steyerjamesp #smartphones #parenting #sleep