Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI coarsening how people remember one another
I have been writing here about AI-induced enshittification … Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends : The hottest new ChatGPT trend is disturbingly morbid Bluesky: Alexios Mantzarlis / @mantzarlis.com : Updat...
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
and even Threads is warming to it Leo Grieco / Proactiveinvestors UK : Meta's Threads hits milestone but lags social media giants Sean Tilley / We Distribute : A Beginner's Guide to the Fediverse, for...
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
Programming note: With this post, we now go on a short summer break. See you back here July 15. — A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world. Threads: @mosseri , @drewharwell , @kur...
Arc Search's Browse for Me feature, which creates custom webpages with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about losing monetizable traffic
Pranav Dixit / Engadget : Threads: @thatadamguy , @fabiobracht , @paul_rietschka , @mcwm , @ezra , @crumbler , @drewharwell , and @jstaal X: @brianfagioli , @bilalbudhani , @gergelyorosz , @gergelyor...
Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on generative AI reshaping Meta, facial recognition, regulations, open source, Llama, AGI, recruiting, Mistral AI, and more
but this is not remotely an apocalypse. @maxamaxim : his take is correct-ish, the hype/marketing around certain tech as agi doesn't always match up with reality it's not to say that there aren't dange...
US college campuses turn to AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to make automated communications with current and prospective students feel more personal
Laura Pappano / New York Times : Tweets: @georgiastateu , @tim_renick , and @drewharwell Tweets: @georgiastateu : With campuses nearly shut down physically, colleges like Georgia State are leaning on...
Facebook's Portals have support for Alexa, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and Facebook Watch, but there's no browser or ability to check Facebook or Messages
Facebook is making a video camera. Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post : Facebook unveils the Portal, a video chat camera for the people who still trust Facebook New York Times : Facebook's New Gadge...