Beyond the AI Gold Rush

Privacy, Cost, and Control: Why We Moved Away from Third-Party AI Services During my time working on a social media platform for kids, I was tasked with working on a service to moderate text messages. I briefly remember from one of our product meetings we discussed that the chat should have at least these functionalities for kids: auto-correction (just like Grammarly) and toxicity detection to make the platform safe for children to use. ...

August 16, 2025 · 3 min · 623 words