Remember when AI was cool and everything was awesome? Of course not. AI is still cool and kind of awesome, but also occasionally problematic, and now we're quickly moving into the amelioration and moderation phase. This is the moment where, after delivering untold AI companions and friendly models that could chat you up like a best friend, companies like Meta and OpenAI are backpedaling a bit.
The signs are everywhere, from a GPT model that was so staid and careful that it bored people to tears to a raft of Meta social media controls for teens aimed, at least in part, at curbing the AI companion access the company once touted.
