A digital age of majority

A digital age of majority

IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and you find me in New York this week. More on that to be published on Oct 29. For those of you in the Big Apple, please reach out here (even if it's to recommend your favorite coffee joints.)

— Countries are converging on the idea of setting a "digital age of majority" for when children can access online services.

— Artificial intelligence-powered deepfakes have yet to up-end democratic elections. But the technology is not far from becoming identical to real videos/photos.

— A select few companies are starting to take a commanding lead in the different layers that make up the global market for generative AI.

Let's get started:

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I appreciate y’all’s content, but I may unfollow if I continue to see AI art and LLM text.

@unaka This account publishes manually written posts alongside automated posts that reshare the feeds of some Italian and English blogs and newspapers. If we ever have an LLM write a post or create an image using generative AI, we'll definitely mention it.
Of course, we can't guarantee that some of the publications we reshare don't use LLMs to write their articles, but if we notice, we'll mention it and perhaps stop sharing.