We've got new Basic Online Safety Expectations (BOSE). It's part of the Online Safety Act that the eSafety Commissioner uses to regulate "online service providers" (i.e: the internet). On top of the pile of rules the service providers already have to adhere to, there's new "expectations" that feel like common sense such as considering user safety when designing and operating generative AI and making sure that "recommender systems" don't "amplify unlawful or harmful material". But then there's weird ones like like making sure any service kids might access is designed with kids as the "primary consideration in the design and operation" of that service. Either way it doesn't really matter as the eSafety Commissioner won't do anything except make a few angry press releases or hand out pissweak fines.
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