Roblox wants the future of communication to be via Roblox?
Comment on Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
alyaza@beehaw.org 1 week ago
the interview in question, which opens with the following exchange:
Newton: You have joined us today to talk about this new age-gating policy that Roblox is rolling out to protect kids. And I think we should start by just talking about the scope of the problem here. What has led you to this point? And how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?
Baszucki: We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well. (emphasis mine) How do we allow young people to build, communicate and hang out together? How do we build the future of communication at the same time? So we, you know, we’ve been, I think in a good way, working on this ever since we started. And when we were — this was almost 18 or 19 years ago — when we first launched the company and we had just four of us sitting in a room, we were literally the moderators, like we would rotate all the time. And so fast-forward to where we are today, it’s just like every week, what is the latest tech? At the scale we’re at, 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month, like what is the best way to keep pushing this forward? And as you correctly note, we’ve just started adding that we’re going to be using facial age estimation with A.I. to complement that.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
MotoAsh@piefed.social 6 days ago
No they want to capitalize on pedos finding victims.
fonix232@fedia.io 1 week ago
I see Baszucki borrowed a few pages from the Trump handbook on how to bullshit until you've derailed the question so much, nobody even remembers what was asked.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 5 days ago
It’s definitely been a thing before Trump. A lot of corporate and publicity speak is like this. Trump is certainly the most prominent, visible, and ‘obvious through exposure’ figure and example of this right now though.