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...
Sources: Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse
Google's top executives stopped using it up to 3 years ago Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This — The company knew … Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Google to overhaul ...
As Facebook and Google start using Wikipedia to combat fake news and conspiracy theories, Wikimedia Foundation says companies should do more to support the site
If big tech companies are going to use Wikipedia as a resource, they should better support its important work, says the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation Tweets: @brianmcc Tweets: Brian M...
How Google's political influence has waned: loss of Obama administration insiders, Eric Schmidt's bet on Hillary Clinton in 2016, rising unease with monopolies
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Tweets: @brianmcc , @binarybits , and @binarybits Tweets: Brian McCullough / @brianmcc : The ways that Google has become Microsoft, and then begat (beginning?) Faceboo...