OpenAI, Meta and Google Agree to New Measures to Protect Children

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This week, companies that make artificial intelligence tools including Open AI, Google and Meta agreed to incorporate new safety measures to protect children from exploitation and plug holes in their current defenses. A new alliance, led by a nonprofit called Thorn, is leading the charge. WSJ tech reporter Deepa Seetharaman tells host Alex Ossola about the problem, and how technology might help solve it. Plus, have you noticed that those online Captcha prompts to prove you’re human are getting harder? WSJ reporter Katie Deighton tells us how they’re trying to stay ahead of the bots. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Z-Scaler extended its Zero Trust architecture with powerful AI engines trained by 500 trillion daily signals
0:07.8	to prevent ransomware and AI attacks that target business.
0:11.7	Z-scaler Zero Trust plus AI. Learn more at Z-scaler
0:16.0	dot com slash Zero-Trust AI.
0:20.3	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday April 25th. I'm Alex Ocala for the Wall Street Journal.
0:28.0	Coming up on today's show, Drag the Arrow, Spin the animal, click the stoplights.
0:33.4	Have you noticed that those tests to prove you're a human online have gotten more complicated?
0:38.0	W.S.J. reporter Katie Dayton tells us why.
0:42.2	And then, major artificial intelligence companies including
0:45.2	open AI and Meta have agreed to take new measures to combat imagery of child
0:49.5	sexual abuse online. We'll find out how technology could help solve the problem from
0:54.0	W.S.J. Tech reporter Deepa Citharaman.
1:00.0	But first, prove you're a human. That's the prompt many of us are given before we sign into a social media platform or an e-commerce site.
1:08.0	The thing that's prompting us is called CAPCHA, an acronym that stands for completely automated public Turing test to tell humans and computers apart.
1:16.0	And it's there to protect the site from being attacked by bots.
1:19.0	But now, the bots are getting more sophisticated, which means that
1:23.0	CAPCHA has to evolve too.
1:25.0	W.S.J reporter Katie Dayton is here to tell us about it.
1:28.0	Katie, what are CAPCHA's actually for? Why do we have to do them?
1:32.0	Since kind of the turn of the millennium,
1:35.0	as the internet group more popular,
1:37.0	so did hacking into it.
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