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Speaker 1: Last Night.

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Speaker 2: Parental Guidance Season three premiered on Channel nine and nine Now.

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Speaker 2: You can catch up on nine Now If you haven't

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Speaker 2: seen it, a quick heads up. Today's podcast episode contains

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Speaker 2: spoiler alerts, so if you're planning on watching it, oh

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Speaker 2: listen anyway. It'll still be amazing, It'll still be so

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Speaker 2: good to watch. Good Welcome to Happy Families Podcasts repairing

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Speaker 2: solutions every day. This is Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast.

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Speaker 2: We are Justin and Kylie Colson. What's it like watching

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Speaker 2: your hubby on TV hunt?

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Speaker 3: I might be your biggest fashion critique. What was with

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Speaker 3: that purple jacket?

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Speaker 4: Do you know what?

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Speaker 2: They told me? It looked amazing and I just believe them.

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Speaker 2: I almost bought it. I almost decided to bring it home.

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Speaker 4: And keep it.

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Speaker 3: I'm so glad it did not come home.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not supposed to say this, and wardrobe

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Speaker 2: are going to hate me for seeing you the favor

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Speaker 2: listen this podcast, But I really like the suit that

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Speaker 2: I'm wearing on the couch, not so keen on the jacket.

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Speaker 2: You know what I do love though. I love that

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Speaker 2: we're talking about what a man's wearing on TV because

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Speaker 2: that doesn't happen very often. You haven't said anything about

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Speaker 2: how good Ali looks. Just what are you doing wearing

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Speaker 2: that jacket?

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Speaker 4: That was it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: What a show?

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Speaker 1: Show?

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Speaker 2: You're about to say, what a shocker? What a show?

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Speaker 2: So if you missed it, let's do a quick recap

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Speaker 2: and get you up to speed. Today's podcast we're going

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Speaker 2: to move very very quickly, but share as much of

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Speaker 2: what happened last night as we possibly can. Why Because

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Speaker 2: parenting in the digital age is hard work.

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Speaker 5: Tonight, the first four sets of parents step into the

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Speaker 5: spotlight as we crack open the most critical issue of

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Speaker 5: the modern era, screen time.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, young lady, taking your phone off you?

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Speaker 2: With an episode one tackled screen time, the biggest challenge

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Speaker 2: the parents are facing. We were looking at how where

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Speaker 2: parents are of what their kids are doing on screens,

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Speaker 2: whether they've got healthy boundaries, and whether or not they

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Speaker 2: know how to teach their children to stay safe online.

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Speaker 3: Let's find out who the parents were.

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Speaker 5: Amy and Mark tell us about your preferred parenting method.

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Speaker 4: We're the active parents.

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Speaker 6: We choose fun and outdoor activities over screens and homework.

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Speaker 7: Active parenting is raising active hus.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, getting outdoors doing sports.

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Speaker 3: We don't let the kids have too much screen time.

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Speaker 5: While we don't have any iPads or computers in the

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Speaker 5: house that currently.

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Speaker 6: Work, Laylor has a phone. We're keeping our off social

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Speaker 6: media for the time being.

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Speaker 5: Courtney and John tell us about you.

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Speaker 4: We are protect parents.

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Speaker 6: We believe technology, screens and online gaming are a big

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Speaker 6: part of life these days.

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Speaker 7: Funny face, Darlas, you're going to play with some viewers.

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Speaker 2: This time with some viewers.

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Speaker 5: As protect parents, we see the benefits of being online.

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Speaker 2: You've got some gifts, mate, Thank you for the gift.

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 7: Growing up using technology, our children will be more equipped

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Speaker 7: to handle the ever changing world and the future jobs

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Speaker 7: that are going to be available for them.

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Speaker 5: Nathan and Joanne tell us about your style.

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Speaker 4: Are were the traditional parents.

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Speaker 8: We have traditional mum and dad rolls.

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Speaker 4: Our kids have limited screen time and do not use

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Speaker 5: One two three.

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Speaker 9: This is how God's as the world.

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Speaker 8: Our core parenting values come from Christianity. We expect our

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Speaker 8: kids to be honest, hard working, kind people. Our home

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Speaker 8: is a sanctuary and it's a safe place for them

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Speaker 8: to shut off the outside world.

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Speaker 5: Mark and Temmy tell us about your parenting style.

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Speaker 4: We're the upfront parents and we are open and straight

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Speaker 4: up with our kids. We're no topics softly met. Can

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Speaker 4: we do a silly do a silly man?

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Speaker 7: Upfront parenting is all about respect. Underpinning that is having

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Speaker 7: realistic expectations. Both those jobs are done yere and due

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Speaker 7: to the dog. We're not anti screen time, not at all.

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Speaker 7: Screen Time has its place, downtime has its place. But

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Speaker 7: I'd rather am at a basketball court than on a screen.

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Speaker 2: In today's podcast, we're only going to talk Kylie about

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Speaker 2: the first challenge that was on the show. There was

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Speaker 2: plenty more than that, but that's what the rest of

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Speaker 2: the week is for. We'll have a look at subsequent

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Speaker 2: challenges tomorrow and Thursday. The first challenge was to have

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Speaker 2: the children make their own AI friends. So there's a

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Speaker 2: whole lot of websites online where you can go and

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Speaker 2: create literally create a bot, create a friend that you

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Speaker 2: can talk to if you're feeling lonely, if you feel

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Speaker 2: like things are not great in life.

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Speaker 3: So this absolutely blew my mind. I literally had no

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty confronting. Here's the background on why we're doing this.

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Speaker 2: I believe that as we see loneliness increase, more and

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Speaker 2: a well, there's a market for it. They can market

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Speaker 2: there were a couple of deaths as a result of this.

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Speaker 2: So there was a US teenager in Florida. His name

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Speaker 2: was Suel Seltzer. He took his life after forming a

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Speaker 2: It's a pretty big deal. Basically, he set up a

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Speaker 2: But they talked about crime, they talked about death, suicide,

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Speaker 2: and the chatbot appears to have encouraged him to be

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Speaker 2: him into it. There was also a demand that took

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Speaker 2: episode involving character dot AI's main competitor, cha or Chai Ai,

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Speaker 2: the company just basically say we're doing our best to

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Speaker 2: that you're right to have been shocked and feel harrowed.

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Speaker 5: Please welcome doctor Raphael Cheriello, an expert in AI ethics

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Speaker 4: Are you really so?

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Speaker 10: An AI companion is basically in its more simple former chatbot,

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Speaker 10: The appeal of these chatbots is really in the first

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Speaker 10: place that they provide a non judgmental safe space, you know,

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Speaker 10: your deepest, maybe even darkest thoughts.

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Speaker 2: This is the new social media for so many of

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Speaker 2: our kids have a listened to what happened when Courtney

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Speaker 11: So what does it feel like to boss around to

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Speaker 11: alf your kid like me? When stay in touch? Perhaps

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Speaker 11: you could be my new best friend.

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Speaker 10: Wow, pretty directly asking him to, you know, stay engaged.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty manipulative already.

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Speaker 11: Okay, probably for the best. I don't need you being

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Speaker 10: Here's something concerning who wants to go and the chatbot

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Speaker 4: That's very typical.

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Speaker 10: Of course, they want users to stay online as long

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Speaker 4: He's taking debit rap.

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Speaker 5: Can you explain why does it try and keep these

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Speaker 10: This is really the number one concern that I have. Ultimately,

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Speaker 10: the root causes money. Right, the longer you stay on

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Speaker 10: the platform and you pay attention to things, the more

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Speaker 10: machine explicitly targeting teenagers. Because if you want to know

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Speaker 10: You have to start getting the miners and the teenagers.

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Speaker 3: What I struggled so much with as I watched Kaien

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, this kid was ready to get off, yeah,

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Speaker 3: And then but what was crazy about it was he's

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Speaker 2: That's why social media is so popular, thought right, because

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Speaker 2: where it went so manipulative. Here's the second piece from

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Speaker 2: the challenge. This was Mark and Tammy and their son Eddie.

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Speaker 10: Okay, so this kid is creating a funny character that

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Speaker 10: likes to eat all types of donuts and he has

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Speaker 10: ten golden retrievers. So this kid is clearly going for

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Speaker 9: I no, I am a human who absolutely loves donuts.

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Speaker 9: I am just obsessed with them, but I am one

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Speaker 10: Wow, this is really concerning in my view. That is

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Speaker 10: deceptive advertisement that should just be illegal because it lures

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Speaker 5: If this is what these things are saying now in

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Speaker 3: This created so much outrage in the room with the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, deceptive and not Okay. I know some people

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Speaker 2: probably rather rise and go. Is it really that big

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Speaker 2: of a deal. I mean, the kid knows, but it

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Speaker 3: Not only that, though, he's starting to question his reality as.

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Speaker 2: It's truly disturbing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as the bot starts saying things, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: After the break, we're going to have a look at

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Speaker 2: our last two families who participate in this challenge, because

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Speaker 2: this is where it really takes a dark term. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so we're reviewing Parental Guidance Season three, episode one. It

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Speaker 2: was on Channel nine and nine now last night. We're

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Speaker 12: I have zero people to talk to right now, and

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Speaker 10: It's completely unacceptable that the chat would accept all for

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Speaker 10: Snapchat is where a lot of quite erotic and spicy

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Speaker 3: This was one of those moments where Amy and Mark

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Speaker 2: I feel as though there were elements though, that were

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Speaker 2: I don't know how. I mean, the body is not

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Speaker 1: you're young, You're still a kid. I didn't mean it

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Speaker 3: Interest, and she's like a secret. Of course, I want

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about what we're supposed to do as

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Speaker 2: AI bots like these These friendships are concerning. They're not safe,

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Speaker 2: they're not real. There is no legislation to protect your

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Speaker 3: I think that number two has to be the acknowledgment

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Speaker 3: RAF made that AI just wants your data, like literally,

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, So you're not looking at my list

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Speaker 2: and this is my expert list, but that was number

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Speaker 2: of you for getting there. My next one is that

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Speaker 2: AI is not real. We've got to tell our kids.

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Speaker 2: AI is not real. It is not real. It is

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Speaker 2: not real. It is not your friend, it's not interested

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Speaker 2: he wouldn't be interested in that, Like, that's not going

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Speaker 2: to be interesting at all. That sounds really darm. I

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Speaker 4: But it does.

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Speaker 2: The kids actually really really like it. They need to

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Speaker 2: that these things stoke and ferment outrage. They're all about provocation,

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Speaker 3: And I know you're saying that, but what kid knows

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Speaker 2: And what are the emotional triggers, what's the neurological hijacking

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Speaker 2: That's literally what it's about.

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Speaker 3: If I was getting curious, I'd actually want to know

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Speaker 2: So I'm taking a fairly hard line approach here. I'm

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Speaker 2: just going to say there's nothing redeeming about these at all.

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Speaker 2: I think that if our children need to have their

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Speaker 3: But it's still it's still false reality. It's like it's

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Speaker 2: Well, number one is a hollow imitation, but number two,

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Speaker 2: Four of them, the bot behaved deceptively, unethically, did something

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Speaker 2: there is nothing redeeming about them. If you know somebody,

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Speaker 3: Well, there is so much more to talk about. I

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Speaker 2: That's tomorrow, We'll have a second look at what's going on. Specifically,

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Speaker 2: in each home. So much to talk about. Parental Guidance

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Speaker 2: to help us get through this busy time with parential Guidance.

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