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Comment by Julie Inman Grant
Australia's eSafety Commissioner; online safety regulator and former tech policy executive
We've been concerned about these chatbots for a while now and have heard anecdotal reports of children – some as young as 10 years of age – spending up to 5 hours per day conversing, at times sexually, with AI companions. [...] it's important these codes include measures to protect children from them.
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(2026)
20h ago
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Quote attributed to Julie Inman Grant (Australia's eSafety Commissioner), year 2026. The source_url (esafety.gov.au media release) returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch, but a web search independently surfaced that exact eSafety page and confirmed the quote text verbatim: children "as young as 10 years of age spending up to 5 hours per day conversing, at times sexually, with AI companions" and the call for codes to protect children. Author attribution is correct. Vote "for" on statement 445 (requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors) aligns with the quote, which advocates protecting children from these chatbots. Relevant and recent.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 17h ago
replying to Julie Inman Grant