Tag: author_name|Karissa Bell
Elon Musk is trying to blame Grok’s Nazi rants on rogue X users
One day after Grok posted a series of antisemitic and pro-Nazi rants on X, Elon Musk is seemingly trying to blame rogue users for the chatbot’s unhinged posts. “Grok was too compliant to user prompts,” Musk said in a post. “Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is…
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Grok sure seems antisemitic after its recent update
Last Friday, Elon Musk said that X’s built-in chatbot had been “significantly” improved. “You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions,” Musk said on X. As it turns out, X users are noticing a difference. Over the last couple days, Grok seems to have taken a hard turn…
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The Oversight Board calls Meta’s uneven AI moderation ‘incoherent and unjustifiable’
As Meta's platforms fill up with more AI-generated content, the company still has a lot of work to do when it comes to enforcing its policies around manipulated media. The Oversight Board is once again criticizing the social media company over its handling of such posts, writing in its latest…
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Reddit adds analytics and drafts for comments
Reddit is making it easier to gauge the impact your comments are having. The company is introducing detailed analytics for comments that measure views and other engagement metrics. Reddit shared the change as part of a larger batch of updates around how it handles comments on its platform. Comment insights…
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Snapchat now has a standalone app for making gen AI augmented reality effects
Snapchat has been experimenting with generative AI-powered augmented reality lenses in its app for the last couple years. Now, the company is allowing users to make their own with a new standalone app for making AR effects. Snap is introducing a new version of its Lens Studio software that allows…
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Reddit will let you hide posts, comments and NSFW activity from your public profile
Reddit will now allow its users to do something it never before has permitted: to selectively "curate" their public-facing profiles by hiding some of their posting and commenting activity from other users. Up to now, Reddit has included users' full commenting and posting activity in profiles. So while most users…
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