Meta is running get-rich-quick ads for its AI tools
Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: Find local businesses without websites or with bad websites, have AI build…
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Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is “the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.” Messages in Incognito Chat aren’t…
Inside the AI ad boom at Google and Meta.
…Google and Meta are using AI to flip the online ad model upside down. Big dive in the NYT: > But the real business breakthroughs have come from targeting. It used to be…
New Mexico has a plan to overhaul Facebook and Instagram
Still fresh off its recent $375 million jury verdict against Meta, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office began arguing for even greater asks in the second phase of a landmark…
Facebook and Instagram are using AI bone structure analysis to identify photos of kids
…this is not facial recognition,” Meta says in the blog post, adding that it “does not identify the specific person in the image.” This system is part of Meta’s efforts to…
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
…Google and Meta did not agree to a settlement in that suit, and it eventually went to trial, where a jury awarded the plaintiff $6 million. Meta also recently lost a suit…
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Virtual Reality Richard Lawler May 18 With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives. The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta…
Instagram has launched another Snapchat clone
…Instants remains tied to the user’s Instagram account, though Meta says that users can choose whether to share and view the disappearing photos via the new standalone app or on the…
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…This is in addition to Meta’s automatically applied “AI info” label for content on its platforms that it detects as being AI-modified. Image: Meta Meta is running get-rich-quick…
Instagram says it doesn’t want your tweet round ups
The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content — and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach. Beginning in 2024…