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Google Will Soon Show You AI-Generated Ads
Google has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays,…
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Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
Europe’s GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent’s strict data rules…
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Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims’ Families Sue Meta, Reddit, Amazon
Elmore says the goal is to force reform. “We can’t bring the victims of this lawsuit back, but we can…
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Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Took the Gloves Off
On April 28, Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received…
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Gary Marcus Used to Call AI Stupid—Now He Calls It Dangerous
Back then–only months ago—Marcus’ quibbling was technical. But now that large language models have become a global phenomenon, his focus…
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Uber Ex-Security Chief Joe Sullivan to Be Sentenced for Breach
Update 05/05/23: Late on Thursday, federal judge William Orrick declared Uber’s former head of cybersecurity Joseph Sullivan would suffer no…
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Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data
Large language models can generate strings of text based on word patterns learned from the web pages, books, and other…
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Did Instagram Just Kill Linktree?
Thirteen months ago, Linktree, the link-in-bio company that allows creators to collect links to different platforms in a single, easily…
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Meta Is Being Sued in Kenya, Again
When David, a content moderator, heard that his company, Sama, would be ending its contract with Meta, he became one…
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In Bulgaria, Russian Trolls Are Winning the Information War
A former Meta employee who worked on its content moderation systems and policy, and who spoke to WIRED on the…
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