However, when the biggest game during the summer break involves children who cultivate their gardens, it is easy to understand why parents let their children continue to use the platform. “Perhaps it is because of the graphics, or maybe it is because of the way it is marketed, [but] It is assumed that Roblox is made for children, and parents assume that there are abundant quantities of safeguards, “says Rachel Kowert, psychologist and research author whose work focuses on the social impact of video games.
To filter the problematic content, Roblox use A combination of human moderators and automated systems guided by artificial intelligence and automatic learning. But the researchers have repeatedly shown that these measures can be circumventedReplacement of prohibited words with codified language, automated systems struggle to trace. In many of the causes intended to date, the victims claim that the alleged author has moved the conversations from Roblox to platforms such as Discord or Snapchat, where there is even less control.
When he was contacted by Wired, a spokesman for Snap said that society is committed to fighting the sexual exploitation of minors and that he is working to improve his technology to detect the people who violate the Snapchat guidelines.
One of the ways in which Roblox aims to prevent people from moving communications to other platforms is through reliable connections, a new functionality that allows users over the age of 13 to make not filtered chats with other users they know. Travelers who have verified their age, sharing a video of themselves who is then scanned by the AI – can add others between 13 and 17 years without further steps.
Users over the age of 18 can become confidence connections only if they know a younger user in real life, according to Roblox. This is confirmed by scaning a QR code in person or if the adult’s phone number is displayed in a user’s contacts.
But critics have a lot of concern about the fact that these measures may already be sentenced to fail. On Discord, who has started to launch similar characteristics in recent months, it took only a few days to understand that they could deceive the verification of age. Using the Photo mode in Stranding of deathThey showed the platform an image of the main character, whose model is the actor Norman Reedus.
In addition to the legal actions that are intended against Roblox, the police in the United States monitored the grooming on the platform. In 2024, Bloomberg Businessweek He reported that the authorities in the United States had arrested at least two dozens of people who the police accused that they had kidnapped or abused the victims who had met or cared for by using Roblox since 2018. The arrests have continued since then.
In addition to the individual predators on the platform, researchers showed how members of nihilistic groups such as no lives matter, CVLTand 764 – Everyone operates as part of the wider Com—The repeatedly used Roblox as a place to recruit children, encouraging them to share sexually explicit images and videos, self -harm or in extreme cases that come to life. Members often do it to earn the weight inside the groups.
The new guarantees claim that the extremism researcher Ry Terran can only do so to prevent it. In his opinion, they give “young teenagers more opportunities to chat, no less”. The “parental checks for teenagers are up to teenagers, not parents”, says Terran. “But they are calling these” extra security “features to move the burden of safety on children and parents and away from themselves.”
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