Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery system to the UK, Italy, and a third US city in late 2024 and integrate Prime Air into its delivery network
The company will also bring the Prime Air program to a third US city by the end of 2024. — Amazon has some big plans …
Meta announces AI-generated chat stickers for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and unveils new AI-powered image editing tools for Instagram
New generative AI tools announced Wednesday at Meta's Connect event will allow users to edit images and create stickers using text prompts.
A deep dive into X's Community Notes, including how the algorithm works, whether the feature actually fights polarization, and its use in high-stakes situations
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook's and Instagram's algorithms …
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more
In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook
and the online chaos that's expected to ensue — just months away” https://www.cnbc.com/... John Oberlin / @omgno2trump : Beware of social media: they would rather have more $Billio...
Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, adding more short videos, more social media posts, and AI conversations
Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results
Sources: Stability AI wants to bring in a Sheryl Sandberg-like executive after burning through much of the $100M raised in 2022 while generating little revenue
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Tweets: @greglinden , @greglinden , @levynews , and @reedalbergotti Tweets: Greg Linden / @greglinden : If your AI demo is mediocre most of the time an...
Sources: Stability AI wants to bring in a Sheryl Sandberg-like executive after burning through much of the $100M raised in 2022 while generating little revenue
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Tweets: @greglinden , @greglinden , @levynews , and @reedalbergotti Tweets: Greg Linden / @greglinden : If your AI demo is mediocre most of the time an...
How TikTok, Amazon, and other platforms go through “enshittification”, helping users before abusing them to help business customers, then abusing those as well
Source: OpenAI will get all of the equity back once $92B in profit plus $13B in initial investment are paid to Microsoft and once other investors earn $150B
I don't usually write about business deals, much less about rumors about business deals, but this one has me scratching my head …
Shadowbanning is real and social media platforms should be more transparent; a survey shows nearly one in 10 US social media users report being shadowbanned
and who it really hurts. … Will Oremus / @willoremus@mastodon.social : Another reason to appreciate Mastodon: no shadowbanning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Tweets: Dave Lee...
Shadowbanning is real and social media platforms should be more transparent; a survey shows nearly one in 10 US social media users report being shadowbanned
and who it really hurts. … Will Oremus / @willoremus@mastodon.social : Another reason to appreciate Mastodon: no shadowbanning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Tweets: Dave Lee...
Sources: to cut costs by 10%+ in a few months, Meta is nudging out staff by reorganizing departments and giving them a limited window to apply for other roles
Facebook parent is looking to reduce costs by at least 10%, people familiar with the plans said, while Google has required some employees to apply for new jobs
Sources: to cut costs by 10%+ in a few months, Meta is nudging out staff by reorganizing departments and giving them a limited window to apply for other roles
Facebook parent is looking to reduce costs by at least 10%, people familiar with the plans said, while Google has required some employees to apply for new jobs
A US hacker says he built a network of “news” sites and Facebook Groups in 2015 to push bogus stories after a company hired him to “stop Hillary Clinton”
He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. — This is the story of the mastermind behind … Tweets: @ax_sharma , @robviglione , @fark , @dangillmor , @...
Facebook hides the tag #VaccinesKill from searches, displaying a message that says it is “keeping our community safe”, two years after Instagram hid the tag
(CNN)Last week, even as it came under fire from the White House over its role in spreading anti-vaccine misinformation …
Researchers say the study of social media's large-scale societal impact should be treated as a “crisis discipline”, like climate science or conservation biology
One challenge is how little we know about the dangers. — Social media has drastically restructured … Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @zittrain , @richggall , @bob_wachter...