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CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an "Opportunity"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/roblox-ceo-predatorsThough the children’s gaming platform Roblox has notched over 200 million daily users at its peak, they’re not all there for fun and games. Active since 2006, the extremely popular online game has become a haven for bad actors, like racketeers running online casinos for underaged users, or pedophiles prowling for victims.
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Asked by co-host Casey Newton how he thinks about the issue of child predators on his platform, the Roblox CEO said the issue wasn’t just a “problem, but an opportunity as well.”
“How do we allow young people to build, communicate and hang out together?” he mused. “How do we build the future of communication at the same time? So we, you know, we’ve been, I think in a good way, working on this ever since we started… and so fast-forward to where we are today, it’s just like every week, what is the latest tech? At the scale we’re at, 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month, like what is the best way to keep pushing this forward?”
Later on, when the hosts asked Baszucki about challenges of handling user safety on such an astronomical scale, the CEO again presented the issue as a business opportunity — specifically, an opportunity to carve a monopoly out the online gaming scene.
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Asked by co-host Casey Newton how he thinks about the issue of child predators on his platform, the Roblox CEO said the issue wasn’t just a “problem, but an opportunity as well.”
“How do we allow young people to build, communicate and hang out together?” he mused. “How do we build the future of communication at the same time? So we, you know, we’ve been, I think in a good way, working on this ever since we started… and so fast-forward to where we are today, it’s just like every week, what is the latest tech? At the scale we’re at, 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month, like what is the best way to keep pushing this forward?”
Later on, when the hosts asked Baszucki about challenges of handling user safety on such an astronomical scale, the CEO again presented the issue as a business opportunity — specifically, an opportunity to carve a monopoly out the online gaming scene.
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More at the link on how ineffective Roblox has been at stopping child predators, including in its switch to AI moderation.
It's more and more obvious that Mountainhead, the film that skewered some insane and amoral tech CEOs early this year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountainhead_(film) - could have had a lot more insane-and-amoral-tech-CEO main characters.
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