New Mexico has a plan to overhaul Facebook and Instagram
Still fresh off its recent $375 million jury verdict against Meta, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office began arguing for even greater asks in the second phase of a landmark…
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The EU isn’t happy with WhatsApp’s AI fee.
The European Commission says it will order Meta to roll back its policy to only allow rival AI assistants on WhatsApp for a year if they pay an access fee, which appears…
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
…Google and Meta did not agree to a settlement in that suit, and it eventually went to trial, where a jury awarded the plaintiff $6 million. Meta also recently lost a suit…
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Virtual Reality Richard Lawler May 18 With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives. The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta…
Instagram has launched another Snapchat clone
…Instants remains tied to the user’s Instagram account, though Meta says that users can choose whether to share and view the disappearing photos via the new standalone app or on the…
Instagram says it doesn’t want your tweet round ups
The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content — and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach. Beginning in 2024…
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…This is in addition to Meta’s automatically applied “AI info” label for content on its platforms that it detects as being AI-modified. Image: Meta Meta is running get-rich-quick…
OpenAI says it’s getting serious about AI detection and labeling
…C2PA helps content carry detailed context; SynthID helps preserve a signal when metadata does not survive,” OpenAI said in its announcement. “Watermarking can be more durable through transformations like screenshots, while metadata…
Roblox has games again
…Meta, for example — the company formerly known as Facebook that changed its name as it pursued its own metaverse vision — has made big cuts to its metaverse division and is now changing…
It’s make or break time for AI labeling systems
…Google announced yesterday that Meta will start using C2PA metadata to tag images on Instagram that have been captured by a camera. Meta hasn’t responded to our questions about what this…