Paul Stenhouse: Texas law can force age verification for porn site users, Saleforce CEO's claims about AI workload
Saturday Morning with Jack Tame · Newstalk ZB
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Texas can force users of porn websites to verify their age
The law was challenged right up to the Supreme Court as they claimed it violated the free-speech rules of the First Amendment. Their argument was that adult viewers might be worried their private information or viewing history could be exposed, which is a deterrent from accessing the material.
The Supreme Court ruled in favour of the law, saying it's working to protect children, and the government has the authority to do that. The Texas Governor, Ken Paxton, calls the widespread access among children to hardcore pornography a public health crisis.
Texas is one of 24 states that have passed age verification laws for online porn, forcing Pornhub to close down in the state.
Salesforce's CEO claims 30-50% of the internal work is now done by AI
That's a staggering statistic from CEO Mark Benioff. Unsure how that's measured, but he says AI is being widely used at the company for software engineering and customer service. He says the tech has allowed the company to hire fewer humans.
Microsoft and Alphabet have claimed similar stats saying AI is creating about 30% of the new code on some projects.
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