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Meta is stuffing its AI chatbot into your Instagram DMs

13Apr

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Meta is stuffing its AI chatbot into your Instagram DMs

On Friday, people around the web noticed a new addition to their Instagram: Meta AI, the company’s general-purpose, AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry and generate images with a simple text prompt. The move isn’t surprising. Meta revealed Meta AI in September 2023 and has spent the last few months adding the chatbot to products like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, so adding it to Instagram seems like a no-brainer.“Our generative AI-powered experiences are under development in various phases, and we’re testing a range of them publicly in a limited capacity,” a Meta spokesperson told Engadget, which suggests that not everyone has the feature available yet. TechCrunch, which first noted the news, said that Meta AI was showing up in Instagram’s search bar. But for som...

10Apr

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Pop Music Is Mad. Social Media Loves It

Not everyone is buying it. Despite the study’s findings, “I don’t believe hip-hop lyrics are more angry,” says Dame Aubrey, head of A&R for CMG Records and Management, a music label that represents rappers Moneybagg Yo, BlocBoy JB, and GloRilla. If anything, Aubrey says, what changes we do hear are a product of how music has expanded. It’s simple, Aubrey says: more people, more perspectives. The medium is more accessible now because of the technology available. “There’s just a lot more artists with opportunities to be heard because it basically became a trend to make music.”One major adjustment in all of this is the mechanics of how a song gets popular, and what its popularity generates.In the age of social media, that can often translate into more of the same kinds of sounds, althoug...

AI-Generated Spoofs of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok

3Apr

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AI-Generated Spoofs of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok

The blending of the real and unreal could explain why some faux-Drag Race followers get so passionate about what they’re seeing on their feeds. Michael says he “lives for the overreactions of fans” who believe his creations are real people. He says people often ask him for a queen’s actual Instagram handle.“I also get the occasional hate comment from someone saying I’m taking away jobs from real drag queens,” he says. As an illustrator himself, Michael says he’s aware “that AI is coming for my job,” but doesn’t believe his Instagram passion project is taking money away from humans. “If someone isn’t going to the club and tipping a real drag queen because they saw AI Drag Race, that’s a problem with the person and not my Drag Race,” he says.Fantasy Drag Race’s Más says she’s gotten into sc...

Social media apps made $11 billion from children and teens in 2022

28Dec

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Social media apps made $11 billion from children and teens in 2022

When it comes to children's mental health and privacy, their loss translates into massive gains for social media companies: $11 billion, to be exact.That's according to a new Harvard study that shows social media platforms last year generated $11 billion in revenue from advertising directed at children and teenagers, including nearly $2 billion in ad profits derived from users age 12 and under. Snaphat, TikTok and Youtube reaped the highest share of those billions, approximately 30% - 40% combined, according to the findings. "Although social media platforms may claim that they can self-regulate their practices to reduce the harms to young people, they have yet to do so, and our study suggests they have overwhelming financial incentives to continue to d...

Oversight Board Criticizes Meta’s Automated Moderation in Israel-Hamas War

19Dec

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Oversight Board Criticizes Meta’s Automated Moderation in Israel-Hamas War

Today, Meta’s Oversight Board released its first emergency decision about content moderation on Facebook, spurred by the conflict between Israel and Hamas.The two cases center around two pieces of content posted on Facebook and Instagram: one depicting the aftermath of a strike on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and the other showing the kidnapping of an Israeli hostage, both of which the company had initially removed and then restored once the board took on the cases. The kidnapping video had been removed for violating Meta’s policy, created in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attacks, of not showing the faces of hostages, as well as the company’s long-standing policies around removing content related to “dangerous organizations and individuals.” The post from Al-Shifa Hospital was removed...

End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years

10Dec

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End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years

Since 2016, the social behemoth now known as Meta has been working to deploy end-to-end encryption in its communication apps. CEO Mark Zuckerberg even promised in 2019 that the data privacy protection would roll out by default across all of the company's chat apps. In practice, though, it was a wildly ambitious goal fraught with technical and political challenges, and Meta has only been able to move toward it in gradual, incremental steps. But this week the company is finally starting its full rollout.“It's been a wild ride," says Jon Millican, a software engineer within Meta's messenger privacy team. “I suspect this is the first time that something’s been end-to-end encrypted with all of the constraints that we’re working with. It’s not just that we’re migrating people’s data, but it’s a...

Facebook and Instagram are steering child predators to kids, New Mexico AG alleges

6Dec

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Facebook and Instagram are steering child predators to kids, New Mexico AG alleges

Meta accused of engineering social media platforms to hook kids Meta accused of engineering social media platforms to hook kids 00:33 Facebook and Instagram are steering children to explicit content even when no interest is expressed, and are enabling child predators to find and contact minors, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez claimed Wednesday in announcing a lawsuit against parent company Meta Platforms and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Children are pressed by predators into providing ...

Meta deliberately targeted young users, ensnaring them with addictive tech, states claim

27Nov

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Meta deliberately targeted young users, ensnaring them with addictive tech, states claim

Meta accused of engineering social media platforms to hook kids Meta accused of engineering social media platforms to hook kids 00:33 The company that owns Facebook and Instagram has for years relied on both social media platforms to keep children and teenagers engaged for as long as possible in order to gather personal data and sell it to advertisers, a group of state prosecutors alleged in a recently unsealed complaint.Attorneys general in 33 states filed a federal lawsuit against Me...

YouTube and Reels Could Decide India’s Elections

23Nov

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YouTube and Reels Could Decide India’s Elections

Lilhari believes that his endorsed, stealth political videos can be a significant factor in the upcoming elections. A majority of his Instagram’s reach is among the 16-24 age group. “My viewers will remember the name of the candidate I spent my day with—and it will stay in the memories of the first-time voters, who are young and not very knowledgeable.”Influencers aren’t only useful for promotion—they can help candidates head off bad press. In late October, Deepti Maheswari, the 36-year-old BJP candidate from Rajsamand, in Rajasthan (who is an influencer in her own right), was caught up in a controversy after party workers stormed into her office to protest her selection for the ticket. Maheshwari is from the nearby city of Udaipur; party workers wanted a local candidate. But Bharat Chouh...

Book quotes that are perfect for Instagram captions

17Nov

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Book quotes that are perfect for Instagram captions

Perfect captionsQuotes from books are not just mesmerizing lines that become etched in our minds, but now, they can also work as the perfect, aesthetic captions for your Instagram pictures. Here we list 10 quotes from famous books that will make amazing captions.