With less than three months to enforcement mid-December, the Australian government has published findings of a study that determined companies there should be able (with reasonable certainty) to accurately verify age to ensure under-16s can’t access social media. There are of course risks of false positives or false negatives and questions about how companies will comply, given they won’t be told what verification products to use.
BetterUp and Stanford Social Media Lab define workslop as “AI-generated content that looks good, but lacks substance.” Their survey of 1,150 full-time desk workers in the U.S. finds that 40% received workslop in the last month, costing $186 per month per employee. For a 10,000-person company, that’s $9 million annually.