[unicornmama]

Meta’s products have damaged and continue to damage the mental health of hundreds of millions of people, including young children and teenagers.

Whatever their motivation to release models, it’s a for-profit business tactic first. Any ethical spin is varnish that was decided after the fact to promote Meta to its employees and the general public.

[vasco]

Meta? What about Snap? What about Tinder? Youtube?

Do you have a bone to pick with Meta, the whole internet, or the fact that you wish people would teach their kids how to behave and how long to spend online?

[endisneigh]

Whataboutism, really? Their statement hardly excludes those entities….

[xvector]

pretty sure this comes down to bad parenting and social media being relatively new on the human timeline - teething pains are to be expected

[bigfudge]

This is absolutely not just "bad parenting". When sending children to school they are now immersed in an online culture that is wholly unaligned with their best interests. There is no "good parenting" strategy that can mitigate the immense resources being poured into subverting their attentional systems for profit. Even taking away their smart phone is no solution: that requires their social exclusion from peers (damaging in itself for child development).