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Louisiana Sues Roblox As Controversy Over Child Safety And Banning ‘Vigilante’ Users Grows

Popular online gaming platform Roblox has faced a storm of controversy over its child safety protocols after it banned a self-described child predator hunter and defended its removal of “vigilante” ...
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Roblox wants to use AI to guess every user's age, but investors aren't sure that's a win

Roblox (RBLX) has a plan to deal with a slew of safety issues: artificial intelligence. "We're going to use AI to estimate the age of every single person on Roblox," CEO David Baszucki told Yahoo ...
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Lawsuits claim Roblox endangers kids. New AI age verification aims to block them from chatting with adults

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...
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Roblox's lack of safeguards made it possible for Bucks teen to be targeted by child predator, lawsuit says

A lawsuit against online game platform Roblox says it does not have safeguards in place to prevent child predators from exploiting kids through its app. The guardian of a 14-year-old boy from Bucks ...
The New York Times

Roblox, Where Kids Game and Chat, Will Analyze Users’ Faces to Verify Age

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...