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@samidh

@samidh
104 posts
2025-08-27
This response to the Raine tragedy from OpenAI does something remarkable: it has the humility to acknowledge that a *product failure* led to real-world harm.  Despite horrific circumstances, it has a rare degree of honesty that I wish tech companies would show more often. openai.com/index/helpin...
2025-08-27 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental distress cues, provide parental controls, and bolster safeguards around conversations about suicide

OpenAI is making changes to its popular chatbot following a lawsuit alleging that a teenager who died by suicide this spring relied on ChatGPT as a coach.

2022-07-28
One primary rationale that Meta used to give for poor integrity experiences was that the feed was just content from entities you chose to follow. You had the control so it was essentially your problem. That justification doesn't work anymore. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …

One primary rationale that Meta used to give for poor integrity experiences was that the feed was just content from entities you chose to follow. You had the control so it was essentially your problem. That justification doesn't work anymore. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-28 View on X
TechCrunch

By the end of 2023, Mark Zuckerberg expects 30%+ of Instagram and Facebook content recommendations will be served by Meta's AI, double the ~15% on Facebook now

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch :

2022-05-04
Excited about this release! Great example of the kind of transparency that can advance insights into Responsible AI. Hope to try it myself sometime soon.... Congrats @ylecun, @schrep and team! https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-04 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Meta's AI lab creates Open Pretrained Transformer, a language model trained with 175B parameters to match GPT-3's size, and gives it to researchers for free

2022-04-27
Okay, I will try to keep this as simple as possible for Trust & Safety novices out there. Plenty of speech is not strictly illegal but is a horrible experience for people on a platform. Examples: Racism, Doxxing, Nudity, Spam, etc. So what do you do about it? 🧵... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-27 View on X
Techdirt

Twitter has aggressively defended users' privacy and free speech rights, pushing back on unmasking subpoenas, but it's unclear if this will continue under Musk

and possibly Elon himself — seem to think the Twitter algorithm actually works like this https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : The guy bleating on for years about “can...

In short if you want the free marketplace of ideas to prevail, you must deal with harmful actors who are within the bounds of the law but whose vitriol destroys participation. There's no perfect solution. So let's dispense with the rhetoric and talk honestly about the tradeoffs.
2022-04-27 View on X
Techdirt

Twitter has aggressively defended users' privacy and free speech rights, pushing back on unmasking subpoenas, but it's unclear if this will continue under Musk

and possibly Elon himself — seem to think the Twitter algorithm actually works like this https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : The guy bleating on for years about “can...

2022-04-16
Effective moderation is not inherently in conflict with free speech. It is required for people to feel free to speak. Anyone who doesn't get this has a high school stoner level grasp of societal issues and has never spent 5 min working on trust & safety. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
New York Post

Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days

Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.

Effective moderation is not inherently in conflict with free speech. It is required for people to feel free to speak. Anyone who doesn't get this has a high school stoner level grasp of societal issues and has never spent 5 min working on trust & safety. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
The Verge

Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B

The billionaire made his first public comments about his Twitter takeover efforts at the TED 2022 conference

2022-04-15
Effective moderation is not inherently in conflict with free speech. It is required for people to feel free to speak. Anyone who doesn't get this has a high school stoner level grasp of societal issues and has never spent 5 min working on trust & safety. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-04-15 View on X
The Verge

Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B

Utopian good—with another six architectural and business model reforms. Let me run the place in my spare time from finding, funding, and growing Deep Tech breakthroughs. https://tw...

Effective moderation is not inherently in conflict with free speech. It is required for people to feel free to speak. Anyone who doesn't get this has a high school stoner level grasp of societal issues and has never spent 5 min working on trust & safety. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-04-15 View on X
The Information

Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting the company will fight the bid

Amir Efrati / The Information :

2022-03-17
It took a lot of work over many years for this action to be possible today: 1. Policies precisely defining deep fakes 2. Ability to monitor viral content 3. Detection tools (incl. of variants) 4. Cross-industry & gov partnerships 5. Building teams w/ right expertise Well done! https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-17 View on X
The Verge

Meta says it removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asking Ukrainians to surrender, citing its misleading manipulated media policy

In the fake video, Zelenskyy surrenders to Russian invasion  —  On Wednesday, Facebook's parent company, Meta …

2022-03-10
This is a great and smart move. Gets upstream of misinfo amplification while also empowering the community to step up their responsibility. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-03-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook rolls out new features for Group admins, including the ability to automatically decline incoming posts with information marked false by fact checkers

2022-03-02
@alexeheath The feed demotion, however, is a bold measure to do at an entity level. But Meta was likely left with no choice because they needed to at least partially undo the damage that years of recommending these entities have done (and the scores of permanent Page followers they created).
2022-03-02 View on X
MacRumors

Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine

Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …

@alexeheath The feed demotion, however, is a bold measure to do at an entity level. But Meta was likely left with no choice because they needed to at least partially undo the damage that years of recommending these entities have done (and the scores of permanent Page followers they created).
2022-03-02 View on X
Protocol

Meta will demote content linking to Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram globally and rolls out encrypted Instagram DMs in Ukraine and Russia

a rate of 1.3 billion views a day, or 928,000 views a minute https://www.wired.com/... Aisha S Gani / @aishagani : Wonder what message this gives to the Rohingya and Ethiopians who...

2022-02-04
DAP down + MAP up = DAP/MAP plummeting == Trouble == Prediction sadly on track. [Prediction: “TikTok will eclipse FB in aggregate daily time spent in the 5 most lucrative markets (sans India). TT's enhanced ad targeting will cause FB's first ARPU decline ever. Upside for Meta: anti-trust will fizzle and they can spread rumors Beijing meddled in the midterms."]
2022-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: at a Meta-wide meeting, Mark Zuckerberg told staff to focus on growing short-video products, citing an “unprecedented level of competition” from TikTok

Mark Zuckerberg quipped that if he started to cry, it wasn't because of the day's news.

2021-12-21
So many great ideas here that show that the speech vs safety dichotomy is often a rhetorical distraction and that there are instead tons of valuable integrity solutions at the system-design level. This was a huge theme of ours on civic integrity. Thanks @sayhar for writing it up! https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-21 View on X
MIT Technology Review

A framework for fixing social media: apply lessons from physical cities, prevent fake accounts, improve corporate behavior, and listen to integrity workers

We need to make our online spaces more similar to our offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe.

2021-11-10
This is an important step, but an even bolder move would've been to agree to a 3rd party technical audit of potential bias in the ad *delivery* system. Modern ad networks now deliver ads so precisely that they may create more bias than ad targeting itself. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-11-10 View on X
New York Times

Meta aims to remove ad targeting options based on user interactions with content about health, race, political affiliation, religion, and more, by January 19

Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, said on Tuesday that it planned to eliminate advertisers' ability …

2021-11-02
7/ This is all too important to rely just on $MVRS leaders to evolve their culture. Regulators must be forward looking and take action now. Scrutinize their plans to dump hardware below costs, or their deals that snap up all the major VR studios. This can't wait.
2021-11-02 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Meta's Andrew Bosworth on how metaverse content will be ranked and displayed, balancing between private conversations and moderating content, and more

there is so much hope for innovation in trust & safety in AR/VR. But we can't let the mindset of connection at all costs lead this next era of computing. May $FB use this opportuni...

5/ Now let's reconcile this with a main message of the company's metaverse unveiling this week: their explicit aspiration to bring this to a billion people ASAP. It's couched as an egalitarian goal, but practically speaking, it seeds a growth at all costs mindset all over again.
2021-11-02 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Meta's Andrew Bosworth on how metaverse content will be ranked and displayed, balancing between private conversations and moderating content, and more

there is so much hope for innovation in trust & safety in AR/VR. But we can't let the mindset of connection at all costs lead this next era of computing. May $FB use this opportuni...

9/ I believe all this is possible— there is so much hope for innovation in trust & safety in AR/VR. But we can't let the mindset of connection at all costs lead this next era of computing. May $FB use this opportunity not just to reinvent its name, but also its culture. /fin
2021-11-02 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Meta's Andrew Bosworth on how metaverse content will be ranked and displayed, balancing between private conversations and moderating content, and more

there is so much hope for innovation in trust & safety in AR/VR. But we can't let the mindset of connection at all costs lead this next era of computing. May $FB use this opportuni...