As my friend who is a professor likes to say, it's great they've given AI safety controls while making it dead simple for a student to write a good thesis.

I think they need to review their ethics, personally.

> As in it’s not about the children, it’s about control? Yes.

I don't think the motives are insidious or about maximizing control, they are strictly profit driven.

If you want the world building their apps on your AI, you need to do absolutely everything in your power to make the AI brand safe. Previous chatbots have been easily coerced into saying truly awful things (e.g. Tay), and the models themselves became associated in the minds of the public with hate speech. You can't have Khan Academy or Microsoft Word potentially going on racist tirades in the midst of chatting with a student or taking meeting notes.

But how are we meant to make real safety improvements if everyone labels it as being “about control” and gets angry about it?

You could argue this is true for people, but I think it is pointless to personify a company like this. We should judge them by their actions and not their motivations because their motivations are almost always just to make more money.