Author: Zach_Wilson
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
IIn March, Meta’s Oversight Board called on the company to “meet its public commitments and employ its own tools” to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal — an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the…
Read MoreTikTok says AI-generated spam ‘crowds out original creators’ — so it’s teaching users how to spot AI
TikTok is releasing a new tool to help users identify AI spam It says that AI spam “crowds out original creators” Industry insider suspects that ad revenue may be the real motivator If you’re getting tired of AI slop on social media, you’re not alone. Even TikTok, which has spent…
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In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump’s “rate payer…
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It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand. Source
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'Strange New Worlds' is uneven in tone, erratic in quality and sometimes gratuitous. But when it works, it works so well. Source
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