After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
Polymarket users have bet ~$2B on predicting the next US president; Polymarket has excluded US users since 2022 as part of a settlement with federal regulators
Kalshi founder Matthew Gault / Gizmodo : $30 Million Is All It Took to Shift the Odds in Trump's Favor on Polymarket Bruce Golding / International Business Times : $30 Million In Polymarket ‘Voodoo’ B...
YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content
The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indict...
iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown: a redesigned frame helps with replacing the back glass, a tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, and more
as long as Apple is the one fixing it Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider : iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown reveals few internal changes, digs at repairability Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : iFixit posts t...
A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others, which trains ML systems and generative adversarial networks using AI-generated images
Discord's captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI. — Matthew Gault Tweets: @jeffjarvis , @lazerwalker , @gregegansf , @motherboard...
Twitter appears to disable autocomplete in its search bar after users pointed out that the feature was recommending gory videos of animal abuse and war footage
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Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts”
now fix it’: On the picket lines with Hollywood writers as they bring signs, slogans, and sunscreen to their fight … New York Times : Outside Hollywood Studios, Writers Make Their Case The Hollywood R...
Common ChatGPT phrases like “as an AI language model” and “I cannot generate inappropriate content” are appearing in and exposing fake Amazon reviews and tweets
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Documents: multiple US military branches have bought access to Team Cymru's Augury internet monitoring tool, which claims to cover 90%+ of internet traffic
The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It's everything. Tweets: @keegan_hamilton , @shotgunner101 , @motherboard...
The DHS has awarded a ~$700K grant to researchers to develop best practices and resources for monitoring and evaluating extremist activities in game communities
Several groups are coming together to study the little understood phenomenon. — Matthew Gault