A fun episode all around, and one of our best titles yet, with all credit for it going to @leighb.bsky.social, who came up with it almost immediately... Take a listen: podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis... New Blocks On The Kids - Ctrl-...

Next up, we talked about how the academic preprint site arXiv is having its own trust & safety challenges, mainly around AI slop papers being submitted and how it's trying to enforce its rules to stop them. From there we talk about France investigating a few sites, including TikTok and Shein...

... in both cases over what investigators seem to think are failures of content moderation efforts by these platforms. Finally, this episode was sponsored by Safer by Thorn, and we had Pailes Halia on to talk about their CSAM/CSE classifier tools, and how they help trust & safety teams.

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: New Blocks On The Kids (And yes, this may be my favorite title of an episode ever). podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis... @benwhitelaw.bsky.social & I talk about Australia blocking kids from more social apps (Reddit?!?) and how kids always find a way around blocks... New Blocks On The Kids - Ctrl-...