AI Safety Tool Sparks Student Backlash After Flagging Art as Porn
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An AI-powered safety tool used in schools flagged student art as pornographic, sparking backlash and a lawsuit from students and parents, with commenters questioning the tool's effectiveness and accuracy.
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The joke in the XKCD is ‘you get what you pay for’ since his friend isn’t charging him. That is not the case here, posting the XKCD is a non-sequiter.
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