A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions
Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @timkendall_path , @rosenzweigj...
The lawsuits against tech companies could shape what copyright means for AI, or simply serve as leverage for plaintiffs to secure more favorable licensing deals
The bar for fair use is typically that the new work doesn't compete with the original. … X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “If the NY Times successfully argues that reading a third party article to hel...
Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew
Digiday : Tweets: @mattmcgee , @martyswant , @mehdirhasan , @timgatt , and @dimensionmedia See also Mediagazer Tweets: Matt McGee / @mattmcgee : Purely anecdotal, but it seems to me that my tweets wi...
The Facebook Papers offer glimpses into how users perceive Meta's ad products, like the impact of its reaction emojis, and the concerns raised by employees
The “Facebook Papers” have been revelatory when it comes to how the company formerly known as Facebook deals with content moderation and a wide variety of other issues. Tweets: @joshsternberg , @marty...
In an apparent swipe at Zuckerberg, Tim Cook says that valuing engagement over privacy leads to “polarization” and “violence” and such businesses need reform
from safeguarding your health & financial data to guarding against algorithms that perpetuate rampant misinformation. We need transparency and reform. Jason Snell / @jsnell : Tim Cook is a very polite...
Twitter says over the next week it will adjust users' follower counts to no longer include locked accounts, dropping Twitter's combined follower count by ~6%
here's why Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Twitter to Remove Millions of Accounts from Follower Numbers as Part of New Push Aroon Deep / MediaNama : Twitter users will lose four followers on ...
Google allows users to report offensive autocomplete suggestions and Featured Snippets, will show more authoritative content for obscure and infrequent queries
I was, frankly, amazed when I saw this tweet: Tech2 : Facebook and Google announce new plans to tackle the problem of fake news Gizmodo India : Google wants your help to tackle fake news Barry Schwart...
Facebook releases timeline of murder suspect's activity: first video uploaded 11:09AM PDT, first report received around 11:27AM, account disabled at 1:22PM
“I snapped, dog,” the man says into the camera. Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Facebook publishes timeline of murder suspect's activity James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : A murder video posted to Facebook was ...
Facebook's Trending topics will show regional, not personalized, stories moving forward, publisher headline and name under each topic, more
Facebook has been blamed by many for its complicity … Roy Greenslade / The Guardian : Facebook is trying to tackle fake news, but what should we do? Breitbart Tech / Associated Press : Facebook Takes ...