Roblox Joins Tech Companies in New Fund to Protect Kids Online
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A new initiative from Alphabet Inc., OpenAI, Roblox Corp. and Discord raised more than $27 million to provide free, open-source tools for improving child safety online.
Robust Open Online Safety Tools, or ROOST, promises to address “a critical need to accelerate innovation in online child safety,” Eric Schmidt, a founding partner of the organization and former chief executive officer of Google, said in a statement. ROOST’s AI-powered tools will identify, review and report child sexual abuse material and make core safety technologies more accessible.