Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz
One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It's being made in secret.
Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from Stephen King and other authors
One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It's being made in secret. To produce humanlike answers to questions …
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market
- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market
- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs. Tweets: @kevinroose ...
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet. Chris Vallance / BBC : Facebook's metamorphosis - will it work? Andrew Hutchinson / Soc...
Meta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences
In addition to announcing Facebook's rebranding to Meta on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a number of lofty promises about the metaverse and its features.
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
In a booth at Ted's Fish Fry, in Troy, New York, my friend Daniel Beck and I sketched out our plans for the metaverse. It was November 1994, just as the graphical web …
WSJ's Facebook Files, which uses Facebook's own data and research to highlight its impact on users, is Facebook's biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica
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Facebook says its global head of safety, Antigone Davis, will testify before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection on September 30
- Facebook agreed to send Antigone Davis, global head of safety, to testify before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection on Sept. 30.
WSJ's Facebook Files, which uses Facebook's own data and research to highlight its impact on users, is Facebook's biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica
How the company found itself in its biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica — A week ago, the Wall Street Journal began to publish …
A look at the rise of the meditation app Calm, downloaded by 100M+ users and valued at $2B, which aims to make meditation easy, friendly, and accessible
cathedral-like mountain towers above me; a lake laps at my feet; sunshine distilled through pine needles warms my skin. Close your eyes, a voice intones. Tweets: @jeffnolan , @the...
Trump's clear election loss has splintered the right-wing online info ecosystem, forcing outlets, platforms, and commentators to choose reality or Trump
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic : Tweets: @gelles , @nathanallebach , @jeffreygoldberg , @normative , @davejorgenson , and @marklittlenews See also Mediagazer Tweets: David P Gelles ...
Disinformation campaigns require significant human effort but will soon be far easier and cheaper to undertake with AI tech like GPT-3
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic : Tweets: @michikokakutani , @jeffreygoldberg , and @adriennelaf Tweets: Michiko Kakutani / @michikokakutani : The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon ...
After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down”
in Kim Jong-Un style—could possibly be within a country mile of legal https://twitter.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Dear @HawleyMO you are far too smart to say this is pret...
Sources: Trump is planning to sign an executive order Thursday that could threaten punishment for Facebook, Google, and Twitter over content moderation
The president is expected to sign the order on Thursday — President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order Thursday that could roll …
After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down”
- Attack comes after Twitter fact-checked, labeled Trump tweet — Tech companies have faced criticism from conservatives of bias
In a first, Twitter adds a “Get the facts” label to two Trump tweets with false claims about mail-in voting, which links to a Twitter Moment refuting his claims
The action comes after years of criticism that social media companies have allowed the president to push misinformation unchecked
An Amazon warehouse worker in New York tests positive for coronavirus; Amazon says it has temporarily closed the facility and sent workers home with full pay
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, received a text Wednesday evening that they long feared might come …
Facebook says it won't back down from allowing lies in political ads but will give users the option to see fewer political ads in their feed and in Instagram
The company was under intense pressure to adjust its policies. But in this presidential election year, no big changes are planned.