🌎 Discussion: Online Piracy, AI, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues II

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Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, as Nick Clegg steps down | Semafor

Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.

www.semafor.com

 

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Apple to pay $95 million to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of snoopy eavesdropping

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices

abcnews.go.com

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop

Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded.

gizmodo.com

Update 1/03/24: After the publication of this article, Meta told 404 Media that it had begun to delete the AI-generated accounts and that many had been managed by humans. Since then, Meta has deleted the accounts. Our original story follows below.

Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral

Meta's AI accounts are going viral. The company created the accounts to go along with their AI chatbots back in 2023, and while they seem to be abandoned, people are not impressed.

lifehacker.com

 

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'Genuinely Weird' and 'WTF': Critics Denounce Meta's AI-Generated Profiles | Common Dreams

"What is obvious from scrolling through these dead profiles," wrote 404 Media's Jason Koebler, "is that Meta's AI characters are not popular, people do not like them, and that they did not post anything interesting."

www.commondreams.org

 

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How Big Companies and the Courts Killed Net Neutrality | Common Dreams

The powerful telecom industry did what they always do when the FCC does anything good or important on behalf of consumer: They sued to overturn the rules.

www.commondreams.org

 

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What happens if the US bans TikTok?

TikTok wouldn’t simply vanish off your smartphone – but in the long term, banning the Chinese video app could rip the heart out of American youth culture, writes Io Dodds

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry

Viral controversy over AI-generated Instagram accounts created by the company led to a search result blackout.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry

Viral controversy over AI-generated Instagram accounts created by the company led to a search result blackout.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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FTC Chair hopes Amazon, Facebook won't get 'sweetheart deal' from Trump in antitrust cases

Khan’s comments come as Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have made apparent efforts to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves

Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.

www.404media.co

 

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MAGA World Unimpressed At Zuckerberg's Apparent Concession To Trump

In a major shift ahead of the new presidency, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his social media platforms will scrap their existing fact-checking systems.

www.huffpost.com

 

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[Lily Adler]

They trying everything they can to make America as ignorant as possible.

 

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Wow...lol

 

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They trying everything they can to make America as ignorant as possible.

The United States is ranked 13th overall, I think, as far as education goes. But we can always go lower. (Especially with Republicans in charge of this country again.)

 

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Sister of OpenAI boss accuses tech billionaire of childhood sexual abuse

Altman and his family denied Ann Altman’s accusations, calling them ‘deeply hurtful and entirely untrue’

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Zuckerberg’s ‘free speech’ pivot is nothing but a cynical power play

Fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram wasn’t perfect, but scrapping it opens the door to prejudice and bigotry, warns former Twitter curator Marc Burrows

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Zuckerberg’s fact-checking rollback could usher in a new, chaotic era for social media

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg inspired celebration from some Republicans when he announced changes to the company’s fact-checking and moderation programs.

www.nbcnews.com