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News & Current Events Apr 3, 2026 at 10:36 AM

OpenAI secretly funded California 'Parents & Kids Safe AI' coalition and pledged $10M to a ballot initiative critics say protects the company, not children

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Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition
sfstandard.com
Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition
OpenAI quietly helped build a “‘parents and kids”’ AI safety group. Some members quit when they found out.
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steathrazor Apr 3, 2026 +237
It's never about the children they use them as Shields it's always about profit and control
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Drabulous_770 Apr 3, 2026 +53
Yup. “Think about the children” in tech = “we want to surveil you even more!” 
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BasroilII Apr 3, 2026 +11
"Keeping your kids safe from predators!" "...well, other predators."
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Icy_Acanthisitta7741 Apr 3, 2026 +17
openai needs to go. And all those companies pushing ai now. What's the point of ai when they fire 100k people for it? (no one to buy their product other than their shitty circular investment)
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Guy_GuyGuy Apr 3, 2026 +9
OpenAI is a dead company walking. It's been hemorrhaging money for ages and eventually enough dipshit investors will get cold feet and it will all come crashing down.
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FillFrontFloor Apr 3, 2026 +13
It's worse than that if you think about. The government and companies have all the data of almost everything about our lives already, so what's next? The next big move is to gather all the data and behaviors of our children growing up so then can have a full analysis of our lives from birth to not only have maximum targeted marketing but also see how they can influence decisions in our lives. I'm personally already getting a lot of shady articles about "college is useless, become a welder instead" or "why college mayors are failing but find out how factory work is on the rise" and I'm like wtf is with these feed? But thinking about it, yes a life time of suggestion will 100% convince people that factory life is great. I mean if adults are convinced influencers are not commercials and are real and sincere, then you can definitely convince a population what professions or jobs they should focus on.
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Playful-Technology-1 6 days ago +4
Isn't Open AI's owner Sam Altman under trial for sexually abusing his sister when she was 3 to 12 years old?
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Peggy0246 Apr 3, 2026 +72
Nothing says child safety like a $10M PR shield feels more like protecting profits than protecting kids.
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I_T_Gamer Apr 3, 2026 +10
Are you saying the US political lobby is broken!? You don't say! /s
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dogisgodspeltright Apr 3, 2026 +42
A morally-bankrupt, profit-seeking, sociopath firm, acted in its best interests by using emotive appeal about children as a means of propaganda. Per usual.
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BlitzNeko Apr 3, 2026 +28
I am so tired of this “protecting children” bullshit. Come to think of it, Anyone know what the school shooting count is this year?
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vasta2 Apr 3, 2026 +4
26 gunfire incidents at schools so far, if you go by gun violence archive it’s probably like 5,758 so far
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BlitzNeko Apr 3, 2026 +3
Wow an average of about 2 a week…. Really keeping those Kids Safe aren’t we.
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mistertickertape Apr 3, 2026 +10
Because of course they did. When a corporations says it's about the children, it is rarely about the children. It is about their bottom line.
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Hsabes01 Apr 3, 2026 +6
There is absolutely *nothing* a company like OpenAI will put before their own greed.
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kehakas Apr 3, 2026 +10
Yeah so I shamelessly cheerlead for a podcast called Citations Needed because it covers this kind of stuff all the time, namely "follow the money" type stuff. It's astounding how many "grass roots" efforts can be traced back to neocon think tanks or the Koch brothers or Bill Gates trying to dismantle public education and shove charter schools down people's throats (that one was mostly about weakening teacher unions, it always comes back to dividing and conquering the lower classes).
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LordScotchyScotch Apr 3, 2026 +8
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dl_friend Apr 3, 2026 +4
When it comes down to it, almost none of the laws enacted in the name of "protecting the children" actually do anything to really protect children.
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e48e Apr 3, 2026 +4
Standard practice for big business. Pharmaceutical companies do the exact same thing (funding "patient" groups) 
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cptbil Apr 3, 2026 +3
Just like Facebook, Snapchat, and other internet media giants pushing for age verification on the OS instead of them, the dstributors of content.
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AHSfav Apr 3, 2026 +3
Get money out of politics
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Strange-Effort1305 Apr 3, 2026 +2
The wealthy will consume our children as they see fit and we will do nothing to protect them.
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Actual__Wizard Apr 3, 2026 +1
Does that company actually have money to be spending that way?
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MhuzLord Apr 4, 2026 +1
Sure, taxpayers' money.
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SunsetHeySeuss 6 days ago +1
Don't forget that a whistleblower "conveniently" offed himself before he could reveal what he had. Sam and OpenAI do not give a shit about anything but their own business and the current administration enables them.
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thebarkbarkwoof 6 days ago +1
A misleading name? And in a right to work state? How dare they?
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AuroraFinem 4 days ago +1
This shit should be illegal. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to get involved in anything remotely political. We need to go farther than even before citizens united.
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Th1rte3n1334 Apr 3, 2026 -2
This is kinda bad, both for OpenAI and the coalition. Letting a donor influence your policies without knowing who they are is bad practice.
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