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Meta Leaders Say They’re Not Seeing AI Election Disinformation
10Apr By adminNo Comments
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Meta Leaders Say They’re Not Seeing AI Election Disinformation

[ad_1] Meta Platforms Inc. is under immense pressure to ensure that social media content created by artificial intelligence doesn't cause havoc with elections this year. The company's top leaders say they haven't seen that happen yet on their services.“So far, it's been very striking how little these tools have been used on a systemic basis to try to subvert or disrupt these elections,” Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said at an event on the company's AI strategy in London on Tuesday.  There's still time for that to change. The rapid spread of AI tools capable of generating realistic images, videos or audio clips coincides with a key global election year, with about half the world's population headed to the polls in 2024. Experts fear that AI-generated content could misl...
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The ownership of content in the age of artificial intelligence
16Mar By adminNo Comments
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The ownership of content in the age of artificial intelligence

[ad_1] As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to touch our lives in every aspect, who owns the digital content we generate on a daily basis? The answer is complex. Today's consumers find themselves in a world where their personal data is constantly being collected, analyzed, and utilized to boost the services we use. In fact, now it's also being used to create further content? Who truly owns all this digital content?According to a report by Chiratae Ventures, the consumer tech industry will touch US$300 billion by 2027, and more than 500 million Indians are currently seeking entertainment and gaming services on the internet on a daily basis. According to Forbes, active social media penetration in India is 33.4%, and generally, in January 2023, 67.5% of all internet users in India, whate...
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Trump calls TikTok a threat but says some kids could ‘go crazy’ without it
12Mar By adminNo Comments
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Trump calls TikTok a threat but says some kids could ‘go crazy’ without it

[ad_1] U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that TikTok was a national security threat but also said that a ban on the popular app would hurt some kids and only strengthen Meta Platforms' Facebook, which the Republican has harshly criticized.Trump reiterated his concerns as lawmakers weigh a bill this week that would give TikTok owner ByteDance about six months to divest the popular short video app. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on Wednesday on legislation that gives China's ByteDance a quick deadline to divest the popular TikTok short video app used by 170 million Americans. The House is voting under fast-track rules that require two-thirds of members to vote "yes" for the measure to win passage. The FBI, Justice Department and Office of the Direct...
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Meta’s Facebook, Instagram down for hundreds of thousands of users across globe
5Mar By adminNo Comments
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Meta’s Facebook, Instagram down for hundreds of thousands of users across globe

[ad_1] Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website. "We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X social media. Meta's status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues. There were around 200 reports of outages for WhatsApp on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users.The outage was among the ...
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s X could face EU’s digital dominance crackdown
3Mar By adminNo Comments
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s X could face EU’s digital dominance crackdown

[ad_1] Elon Musk's social media platform X could face a raft of new European Union rules that place curbs on the behavior of some of the world's largest technology firms, after the company told regulators it may meet criteria to fall under the scope of the bloc's Digital Markets Act. The DMA, set to take effect on Thursday, lays out a series of dos and don'ts for the likes of Alphabet Inc.'s Google Search, Apple's Safari, Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook among others. It could also be applied to Musk's X, as well as Booking Holdings Inc.'s accommodation platform and ByteDance Ltd., the European Commission said late Friday.   The DMA is intended to head off competition violations by tech firms before they take root. It will be applied to firms with a significant impact ...
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AI, swords, headsets and Indian wedding for Mark Zuckerberg’s Asia tour
26Feb By adminNo Comments
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AI, swords, headsets and Indian wedding for Mark Zuckerberg’s Asia tour

[ad_1] Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg was in Japan on Monday on a mini-Asia tour involving sword-making, mixed-reality headsets in Seoul and reportedly also lavish pre-wedding celebrations for an Indian multi-billionaire's son. Zuckerberg posted footage on Sunday on social media of a "special afternoon learning about making katanas" with a sword master, including of him hammering molten metal and swinging a blade.The 39-year-old had been skiing in Japan with his family and was due to meet with Facebook developers in Tokyo on Monday and Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported. Zuckerberg was then expected to travel to South Korea where he is lining up meetings with President Yoon Suk Yeol and leaders of tech titans Samsung and LG, according to South Korean media. "Mark is planning a brief visit to ...
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Facebook must face $3.7 bln UK mass action over market dominance, tribunal rules
16Feb By adminNo Comments
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Facebook must face $3.7 bln UK mass action over market dominance, tribunal rules

[ad_1] Facebook must face a collective lawsuit valued at around 3 billion pounds ($3.77 billion) over allegations the social media giant abused its dominant position to monetise users' personal data, a London tribunal ruled on Thursday.Legal academic Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, who is bringing the case on behalf of around 45 million Facebook users in the UK, says users were not properly compensated for the value of personal data they had to provide. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) initially refused to give the go-ahead to the case against Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc, which has previously said the lawsuit is "entirely without merit". We are on WhatsApp Channels. Click to join. But the CAT ruled on Thursday that a revised claim put forward by Gormsen's lawyers should be a...
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On Facebook and Instagram, Meta Touts New Way for Small Advertisers to Avoid Apple’s Fees
16Feb By adminNo Comments
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On Facebook and Instagram, Meta Touts New Way for Small Advertisers to Avoid Apple’s Fees

[ad_1]  Meta Platforms Inc. released new guidelines for small businesses that advertise on Facebook and Instagram, aiming to help them get around fees imposed by Apple Inc. Meta is advising the companies to buy ads through a web browser, rather than on the Facebook or Instagram iOS apps, according to guidance released Thursday. That will help them avoid an Apple commission that Meta said would take effect this month.  Apple's new policy requires advertisers to make an in-app purchase whenever they pay to “boost” social media posts — a move that gives them more exposure. Apple takes a cut of as much as 30% on in-app purchases in its iOS software, meaning that Meta will lose a portion of its ad revenue to the iPhone maker.  We are on WhatsApp Channels. Click to join. The policy change was...
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Instagram, Threads to start limiting the recommendation of political content
10Feb By adminNo Comments
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Instagram, Threads to start limiting the recommendation of political content

[ad_1] Instagram users will no longer be bombarded with unwanted political content on their feed.As per Variety, Instagram, in a blog post, said it will not "proactively recommend" political content from accounts that users do not already follow. The same policy is also applied to Threads, the Twitter-like app launched last summer under the Instagram brand. "We want Instagram and Threads to be a great experience for everyone. If you decide to follow accounts that post political content, we don't want to get between you and their posts, but we also don't want to proactively recommend political content from accounts you don't follow," the Meta-owned company said.Both apps will add a setting to let users who still want to see political content recommendations opt to do so -- and, according...
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