AI Sycophancy and 40% of Two-Year Olds Have a Tablet
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Welcome to “The Know,” a look at the latest no-hype news with contextualized commentary prefaced with a 🎙️ emoji. Here we go!
Common Sense Media released a report on “Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight.” Of families surveyed, 40% of kids had a tablet by age 2 and 23% had a cell phone by age 8. Gaming and watching short-form videos has spiked in the past for years, and “a large majority of parents have widespread concerns about screen media.”
🎙️ Media plan, media plan, media plan… the one plan families shouldn’t live without. That’s the third and final goal of Driver’s Training for Social Media, collaborating on a plan that defines your guiding principles for screens.
OpenAI rolled back a GPT‑4o update after Chat GPT was sometimes “overly flattering or agreeable.”
🎙️ As fun as the Google Gemini and Meta AI commercials can be, AI Chatbots are promoted as alternatives to human advice, companionship, therapy, and now even grief counseling. It’s important for parents to understand and track kids’ and teens' interaction with AI chatbots.
OpenAI is hiring Instacart CEO, Fidji Simo, as CEO of Applications. Simo stated, “This organization has the potential of accelerating human potential at a pace never seen before and I am deeply committed to shaping these applications toward the public good.”
🎙️ Coming from Instacart and previously helping monetize the Facebook app, Simo might create an OpenAI future with shopping and ads powered by AI. Tech companies evolve to stay profitable. Read our article on Spotify’s Evolution from Music Streaming to Tech Giant.
AI-powered search platform Perplexity is expected to increase its valuation to $14 billion after a round of new funding. In February, it launched a waitlist for their new browser called Comet.
🎙️ How we search online for information is shifting toward AI models. Perplexity stands out among others by providing sources. Their forthcoming browser is strategically timed as a judge weighs forcing Google to sell Chrome after losing an antitrust lawsuit.
The head of the US Copyright Office was fired by President Trump the day after releasing a preliminary report that said AI training on copyrighted materials may not be protected by fair use.
🎙️ The timing of the firing in light of the report is… interesting. Tech giants have been pushing for a free pass under the cover of fair use as lawsuits pile up.