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The future of the internet is not looking good at the moment
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook’s parent company Meta was “out of touch” with mainstream discourse and announced that it will end its third-party fact-checking program. He added, “I think at some level you only start one of these companies if you believe in giving people a voice, right?” Zuckerberg further said the fact-checking was…
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Fact-checkers were dropped in favor of X-Style Community Notes
Facebook-owned Meta has announced that it will no longer carry out fact-checks, removing a key source of funding for the fact-checker community worldwide. However, the fact-check service is to continue to be available on Facebook’s mobile apps. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had in 2015 announced a partnership with fact-checkers to check their content, allowing them to…
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Meta’s movie Gen makes converting video clips
Instagram-owned Meta has announced Movie Gen, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that gives videos a new look. The platform shared multiple 10-second clips generated with the tool to demonstrate its capabilities. Movie Gen is able to produce high-definition videos up to 16 seconds long, and Meta claims it outperforms competitive models in overall video quality.
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The risks of long freight trains, and the ability to breed better wheat are reasons why open source artificial intelligences could be anything but
Facebook-owned Meta has expanded its AI translation model to 204 languages, including 150 ‘low-resource’ ones. The world record for a Rubik’s cube’s translation model has been set by Meta with its AI translation model expanding to 204 languages. Two human judges agreed with the first 100 answers of the chatbot 98% of the time.
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Extremist militias organize on Facebook
Facebook and social media company Meta have removed a militia group, Confederate States III%, from the platform. The group was identified by WIRED as a part of pro-Confederate movement ‘Heritage, not Hate’. It was on Facebook’s 2021 Dangerous Individuals and Organisations (DIO) list. However, the group remained up until WIRED contacted Meta for comment.
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Apple, Meta, and Alphabet are targets of investigations by the EU
The European Union’s (EU) competition watchdog has said that Apple, Alphabet’s Meta and Amazon are not complying with the Digital Markets Act. “We are not convinced that the solutions by Alphabet, Apple andMeta respect their obligations for a fairer and more open digital space for European citizens and businesses,” it added. The EU has launched…
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Meta will hide suicide and eating disorder information from teens because of government pressure
Facebook-owned social media platform Meta has said it will now filter results for terms related to suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. Meta also said that users who search for these terms will be directed to “expert resources for help”. Users will also be required to set their accounts to the most restrictive filtering settings on…
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Oversight board was critical of Meta’s Moderation
The Meta Oversight Board, a human-informed panel, has overturned the removal of two videos from the Facebook and Instagram platforms. The board said the videos were removed because of changes to Meta’s automated systems to make them more sensitive to any content coming from Israel and Gaza that might violate the platform’s policies. The board…
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Dozens of states are sued for the youth mental health crisis
Several US states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against Instagram and Facebook’s parent company Meta, alleging that the social media app uses self-destructive images and videos. The states sought injunctive relief, asking a federal judge to force the company to stop using certain features that they claim have harmed young users. The…
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Mark was unable to quit the metaverse
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Meta will use AI technology to advance the metaverse. “There will be people who are there physically and people who are there digitally as holograms, but also sitting around the table with you are going to be…AI guys who are embodied as holograms and…
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Code Llama is Meta’s own coding tool
Meta, an AI-based platform that lets developers use AI to write, Check, Update, and Delete their software, released several versions of its Code Llama model, which can understand natural language instructions. The models are not interchangeable, and each specific version is not interchangeable, Meta said. However, it does recommend the base Code Llama or Code…
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Meta’s Code Llama is an Artificial Intelligence code-writing tool
Software testing firm Meta has claimed that its artificial intelligence-based code generator ‘Code Llama’ did better than the public available code-writing LLMs in certain benchmarks. Code Llama scored 57.3% on the code benchmark and was able to write code that was based on the text description, Meta said. It added it did not specify which…
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When hackers try to break an automated system
Hundreds of people, including white house students, participated in a ‘Generative Red Team Challenge’ to investigate harms, flaws and biases within chatbots and Text Generation Models (TGMs) from Google, Meta, OpenAI, and startups including Cohere. Participants spent 50 minutes trying to expose harms, flaws and biases embedded within chatbots andTGMs from Google, Meta and startups…
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Make threads join you
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Instagram-parent Meta, has said that the social media platform’s photo-sharing app ‘Threads’, which was launched on Wednesday, has seen over 10 million sign-ups in the first seven hours. He further said that the platform has more than 30 billion monthly active users worldwide. Twitter Founder Mark Zucki is also the…
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Meta hit with a record-breaking fine over the data transfer on Facebook
The European Union (EU) has fined Facebook-owned data transfer platform Meta for violating privacy rules. The company will be fined 3.5 billion, the maximum allowed under EU’s data protection law. Meta is also required to stop transferring data from Facebook to the US within six months or face up to 2 billion fine. The ruling…
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Meta is showing a company running out of ideas
Social media platform Meta has changed the meaning of the ‘blue badge’, which tells users that their accounts are authentic, to focus on authenticity and expand access to verification. Users will now have to go through the verification process multiple times before they can change their account’s profile photo, username, or birthday. The price of…
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These are the most hottest startups in Europe in the next couple of years.
As many as 10 European cities have become hotbeds of emerging tech startups, a report by PitchBook found. The cities include Dublin, Berlin, Tel Aviv, London, Munich, Paris, Lisbon, Milan, Lisbon, Rome, Madrid and Venice. While Facebook’s market value fell nearly 40% in February, the market value of its parent company Meta suffered the largest…
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About 10% of their staff will be cut.
Facebook-parent Meta is planning the first significant layoffs in its history, reported TechCrunch. On a conference call last month, CEO Mark Gandhi said that he expects the company to be roughly the same size as it is today. In the fourth quarter of 2019, the company posted a revenue decline and reported a cut in…
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Meta is planning significant layoffs.
Facebook-parent Meta is planning the first significant layoffs in its history as it struggles with a shrinking business and fears of a looming recession, Entrackr reported. Earlier this month, Meta said its second-quarter revenue declined for the second consecutive quarter. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had earlier said that the workforce cuts would “affect the whole…
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Meta is planning significant layoffs.
Facebook-parent Meta is planning to fire the first significant layoffs in its history as the company grapples with a shrinking business and fears of a looming recession, The New York Times reported. Last month, the company posted a revenue decline and reported a halving of its profit from the previous year. The drop in profitability…