A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline in April
Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features
Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features
Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features. — Pinterest has gone all in on artificial intelligence and users say it's destroying the site.
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration
In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry. But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia Bluesky: @cathfletcher . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Catherine Fletch...
Pinterest apologizes for a wave of mass account bans and Pin removals that users said were unwarranted, saying that “an internal error led to over-enforcement”
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How “AI slop farmer” Jesse Cunningham targets older women on Pinterest and Facebook with AI-generated copies of content from real bloggers and creators
“It's just a bunch of fraud.” — Last year, Jesse Cunningham — a self-described “SEO specialist who leverages the power … Bluesky: @alkal , @roxanna , @wagatwe.com , @eddierobson , @ositanwanevu.com ...
Some hair stylists, bridal shops, and hardware stores say AI generated “inspo”, taken from platforms like Pinterest, is warping customers' sense of reality
From bridal shops to med-spas to hardware stores, AI-generated photos are warping our sense of reality and hurting small businesses along the way. Bluesky: @hypervisible Bluesky: @hypervisible : “...A...
Tests show Threads' new search function blocks words like “sex”, “gore”, and “vaccines”; Meta admits “covid” is a blocked term but declines to disclose others
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Bluesky: Jessica Harvey / @jessiscah23.bsky.social : never seen a social media platform try so hard not to be fun [embedded post] @chathamharrison.bsky.social : Fro...
Investigation: some Pinterest users are creating sex-themed image boards of kids and the company's algorithm surfaces such content for adults who seek it out
Jesselyn Cook / NBC News : Tweets: @mike_salter and @_andyburrows Tweets: Michael Salter / @mike_salter : Another example where social media recommendation engines will curate and promote child conte...
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest
laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI model? @simonw and I ma...