Some other great British dishes:

• Tikka Masala
• Shepherd’s/Cottage Pie
• Sticky Toffee Pudding
• Cornish Pasty
• Crumpets
• CUSTARD

Oof yeah okay. If another human being had given this advice it would absolutely be a criminal act in most countries. I’m honestly shocked at how personable it tries to be.

Can you share anything here please? I’m no fan of OpenAI but I haven’t seen anything yet that makes me think ChatGPT was particularly relevant to this poor teen’s actions.

I think OP knows this. It’s an unsolvable problem. The conclusion from that might be that this tech shouldn’t be 2 clicks away from every teen, or even person’s, hand.

Google Pay is different in America, right? To me it’s just contactless.

What about multiple servings of macaroni and cheese??

I never understand the press they get. As someone that doesn’t want to have a chat with a stranger about everything I buy, self-checkouts are amazing. I don’t consider it extra work. OP should look at the history of supermarkets. We didn’t use to pick items off the shelves either.

“I don’t think I can forgive you for that.”

“…but I’d like to try.”

Sorry, I do understand that, I was just thinking of an improvement that might help. I thought having the same phone number might work too but that gets dodgier.

I think there must be a way to deliver on the value of the app without it being the privacy/public exposure nightmare it sounds like. Speaking naively, perhaps a setup where you can only speak about a person with those who have actually matched with them.

There is this (slow moving, far off) EU project that hopes to bring a new standard. It doesn’t read like they’ve got a complete solution at all, but the principles are comforting at least!

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html

Oh haha sorry!

Sorry, it just read to me like you’re presuming a old person that struggles with tech would be a woman. I should’ve left a more constructive comment.

her

Fair enough, thanks for calling me out. I’m glad it’s not as bad as I thought. The article title threw me off as well.

January 2018 for the UK, wild that the US is so behind that even California is only just getting to it.

Couldn’t agree more - there are some wonderful insights to gain from seeing your own kids grow up, but I don’t think this is one of them.

Kids are certainly building a vocabulary and learning about the world, but LLMs don’t learn.

Yeah it’s not exactly going to be WCAG AAA either.

Oh sorry, I’m not denying that at all. I was only drawing on the comparison of Gmail being pretty ubiquitous like WhatsApp is.

My guess is that in some form they track contacts and link clicks. I genuinely don’t think they’re reading messages, but I think they do know eg that Bob is someone that likes to send people links and that there are 5 people that always open those links. So they may have directed model of linked topics between people.

Even if this isn’t true though, owning WhatsApp probably gives Meta a lot of culture impact in a similar way to Google and Gmail. The fact that they could create their Meta AI model and put it in front of like a billion people overnight won’t be lost on shareholders.