… The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority CMA requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used for the “fine-tuning” of Google’s AI models. “In a world first, publishers will now have effective tool… …
… The company says its first wave of security updates should roll out within one week. Importantly, though, Yarbo is not yet committing to remove the single most troubling thing about these robots. …
… Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018’s I AM AI by Taryn Southern and 2019’s Proto by Holly Herndon, albums that were created with significant assistance from AI. …
… If the value were really all on Google’s side, they would simply allow publishers to opt out.” Do you want to be in that same fight with a bunch of creators on YouTube about opting out? …
… Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started At first, AI influencers were relatively easy to identify — and to ignore. Aside from the occasional bursts of hype, they didn’t seem to change much about the way social media worked. …
… I didn’t want to dilute that attention.” Several Washington outlets published articles focused on Grindr’s political priorities, in the very staid way that Washington outlets tend to do. …
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