UK ministers launch a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling
Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing
Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset containing YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, MrBeast, and MIT
Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data …
A reporter says he used an AI-generated replica of a voice to bypass the voice verification system of the UK's Lloyds Bank and accessed an account's information
Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.
Meta's VP of Horizon, Vivek Sharma, is leaving the company after six years; the Horizon team will report directly to Meta's VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah
- Vivek Sharma has been with Meta for six years and was most recently its VP of Horizon. — Sharma's team will now report directly to Meta's VP of metaverse Vishal Shah.
NYU study: from Aug. 2020 to Jan. 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement on Facebook than trustworthy news sources
Italy tells TikTok to block all unverified user accounts after a 10-year-old girl dies while allegedly participating in the “blackout challenge” on the app
Italy tells TikTok to block all unverified user accounts after a 10-year-old girl dies while allegedly participating in the “blackout challenge” on the app
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users …
TikTok will now specify which content policy a removed video violated, after testing the notification feature and seeing a 14% reduction in user appeals
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M fund to pay creators directly for their content
pay them for their content. https://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : TikTok launches $200 million fund to pay U.S creators for their videos https://www.theverge.com/.....