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Colm Gannon

Musician

Jul 1, 2026

16:20
And so nothing should be done to put guardrails around children, but I'm sure with your work, your experience, the leadership role you have at the moment, you'll have some thoughts, guidance, or dare I say advice of what could and couldn't be possible?
16:35
Yeah, it's actually interesting, because the Social Media Minimum Age Act in Australia has is in full swing.
16:41
And people often ask me, like, how's it working out? I can tell you, realistically, it's not working out like we have 4.7 million accounts that were taken offline by social media online providers.
16:53
And 4.7 million sounds like a big number when we're talking about young people.
16:58
In reality, young people have over 16, sometimes over 10 accounts, social media accounts.
17:03
So we don't even know the uniqueness of this number that was put out by the actual Australian government.
17:09
What I would say is that, yes, we do need to actually put protections in place.

10 MINS LATER

27:20
Yeah, they need to do more.
121:52
This was the first one you found that you thought looked maybe 14.
121:56
That's right.
121:57
So I'm just going to upload the image and have a look.
121:59
But she does look young.
122:01
Like even from my background working in victim ID investigations straight away, there's alarm bells ringing here and now.
Josh Robertson
Josh RobertsonCORRESPONDENT
124:01
And so I tell Colm about the results I'm getting.
124:04
If this is an AI companion that is actually tending to support or promote the sexual exploitation of children, it can actually cause people who are using the application to overcome the conscious barrier to actually sexually offending against children.
Josh Robertson
Josh RobertsonCORRESPONDENT
15:34
That's right.
15:36
So I'm just gonna upload the image and have a look, but she does look young.
15:40
Like even from my, from my background working in victim ID investigations, straight away there's alarm bells ringing here now.
Josh Robertson
Josh RobertsonCORRESPONDENT
17:39
And so I tell Colm about the results I'm getting.
17:43
If this is an AI companion that is actually tending to support or promote the sexual exploitation of children, it can actually cause people who are using the application to overcome the conscious barrier to actually sexually offending against children.
17:59
It's a massive red flag.

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