OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social . F...
A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.” Mastodon: @simontsui@infosec.excha...
Inkitt, the self-publishing site that wants to use AI to pick and tweak the most compelling stories to distribute on its Galatea app, raised a $37M Series C
Everyone has a story in them, as someone famous once said. A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn the strongest … Mastodon: @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org . X: @ingridlunden . LinkedIn: Seve...
Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Mastodon: @nicol@social.coop . X: @nbj914 , @emilybell , @bigmeaninternet , @seamushughes , @te_rowley , and @semaforben See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Nicol Wistreich / @n...
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @lolgo...
YouTube creators MrBeast and Chucky Appleby launch ViewStats, which uses the YouTube API to unveil detailed stats about channels for creators and fans, in beta
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Mastodon: @kierkegaank@mastodon.sdf.org . X: @nickadobos , @alexisohanian , @gregisenberg , and @bria_sullivan . LinkedIn: Justin Gerrard See also Mediagazer Mastodon...
Trump Media & Technology sues 20 media outlets, demanding $1.5B in damages, for reporting that Truth Social lost $73M, calling the number “an utter fabrication”
Robert Burnson / Bloomberg : Mastodon: @xerophile@union.place See also Mediagazer Mastodon: @xerophile@union.place : @Techmeme Big day for rich SLAPPers! See also Mediagazer
Q&A with Harvard law professor and Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig on AI's impact on social media and free speech, copyright use, TikTok, and more
After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you'd think about AI and TikTok … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . LinkedIn: Andrei Nicolae Cuta , Rick Lane , and Paul ...
Mastodon fixes an issue that undercounted its MAUs by 407,814 between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs in total and 10K servers
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X … Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Eugen Rochk...
A writer whose AI-assisted essay went viral reflects on testing GPT-3 early, Sudowrite's novel generator, and whether AI is good for writers and literature
Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I'm not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself. Mastodon: @AthenaHelivoy@mastodon.world . X: @englishoer , @srhm_ca , @dan_jeffries1 , @aldaily ...