The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop
… Essentially, the firm creates networks of social media pages typically on TikTok and uses them to drive the band’s music into the recommendation algorithm. …
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How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
… The fake can be one square inch. “Every old method assumed the image was a record of something,” says van Ess. “Generative media breaks that assumption at the root.” Henry Ajder, a deepfake researcher and AI adviser who has tracked synthetic media since 2018, goes further. …
The Pro-Iran Meme Machine Trolling Trump With AI Lego Cartoons
… The group told WIRED that it obtained internet access because it was viewed as a media organization, claiming over 2.5 million followers on different “Iranian messaging channels.” The Iranian regime has leveraged social media to push their side of the conflict to a non-Iranian audience, often combi… …
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
… The video is part of a coordinated influence campaign that Build American AI is funding, which is being rolled out on social media in two phases. …
The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
… Social media is making our children unhappy and unsafe,” Starmer wrote in an X post. “Our children deserve better.” Under-16s will lose access to social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, while the minimum age for chatbots that imitate romantic interact… …
Polymarket and Kalshi Say Influencer Partners Can’t Deny Election Results, Actually
… Kalshi and Polymarket offer a wide range of politics- and elections-themed markets, and prediction-market odds are increasingly incorporated into media coverage of elections. …
China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
… Xue Lan, one of the speakers at the Sanders event singled out by the report, is a nonresident fellow at Brookings. “If you're looking for prominent people from China who can speak about AI , they are going to be the very people who would be in contact with and providing advice to the Chinese govern… …
Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems
… The social media giant has also signed an agreement to rent chips made by Google.
There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos
… Like the AI fruits, these are minutes-long episodic shows intended to perform well on social media, eventually directing viewers to paywalled sequels. …
The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
… Viewers of the film witness the exact second when the app disappeared for American users and the immediate reactions of the influencers. …