Tech moves fast, regulation doesn’t – that’s what the prime minister is now having to contend with.
People invent new technology like AI, new social media features designed to draw you in, new ways to interact online – and in the background, the authorities scramble to keep up.
The prime minister is trying.
Today, he announced the government would close a loophole that meant one-to-one conversations with AI bots weren’t regulated in the same way as social media.
It’s an update to the Online Safety Act that was first shown to Parliament in 2019, more than two years before ChatGPT burst onto the scene and revolutionised how we use the internet.
It took until 2023 to be passed and we only saw widespread enforcement in July last year. Please rewrite this sentence. Please rewrite this sentence. Can you please rewrite this sentence? Please rewrite the following sentence:
Original: «The cat lazily lounged in the sun.»
Rewritten: «The cat relaxed leisurely in the sunlight.» Can you please rewrite this for me?
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