Meta’s AI Covers Up Trump Assassination Attempt, Company Rushes to Fix After Backlash
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta quickly reversed its AI’s responses to user questions about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. By late Sunday, the AI was still insisting there had been no assassination attempt on Donald Trump, while also detailing Kamala Harris’ latest campaign plan. Initially, when asked last weekend for information about the July […]
Meta’s AI assistant calls Trump assassination attempt ‘fictional’
Meta’s AI assistant claimed the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was “fictional,” but had a lot to say about Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ run for the White House. The head-scratching results from what Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant bills as the smartest AI assistant come after Google’s main search engine failed to bring up […]
Meta’s Threads tops 175 million monthly active users, Zuckerberg says
FOX Business’ Kelly O’Grady appears on “Varney & Co.” to weigh in on Meta’s controversial use of public social media posts to train artificial intelligence. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg The company announced on Wednesday that its newest social media platform, Threads, has surpassed 175 million monthly active users (MAUs) as it nears its first anniversary. […]
Princeton and USC Researchers Find Racial Bias in Meta’s Ad Algorithms
A recent study by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Southern California suggests that Meta’s algorithms for displaying educational ads show signs of racial bias, particularly in delivering ads associated with for-profit colleges and universities with a history of predatory marketing practices. Registry Reports The research paper, titled “Auditing Racial Discrimination in the […]
Meta’s AI system ‘Cicero’ beats humans in game of Diplomacy by lying: study
MIT experts say artificial intelligence systems are learning to lie to humans, and Meta’s AI stands out as a “master of deception.” Cicero, touted by Meta as “the first AI to play at a human level” in the strategy game Diplomacy, was successfully trained by the company to perform extremely well, ranking in the top […]
Meta’s Oversight Board investigates two cases of AI-generated explicit content posted to Facebook and Instagram
Meta Inc.’s oversight board is reportedly investigating some of the company’s policies and past actions regarding explicit AI-generated images of women and deepfakes. pc mug. Oversight committee investigation I give two specific examples. There, explicit AI-generated images of real women were posted on both Facebook and Instagram.One reportedly occurred in India and the other in […]
Meta’s Nick Clegg plays down AI’s threat to global democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Meta’s Nick Clegg says generative AI has been overhyped as a risk to elections, arguing that the technology can help defend democracy rather than attack it. Speaking at the Meta AI Day event in London on Tuesday, the social network’s head of global affairs said evidence of major elections around the world already this year […]
Meta’s AI generator won’t create image of Asian dating white person
Meta’s artificial intelligence-powered text-image generator shows that the company’s billionaire founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has never dated a white man or woman, even though he is married to the daughter of a Chinese immigrant. Refuses to render photos of Asian people. An AI tool called Imagine, released last December, appears to suffer from the same revisionist […]
Meta’s Quest VR headsets vulnerable to ‘Inception-style’ hack
Meta Inc.’s $499 virtual reality headset is vulnerable to ‘Inception-style’ hacking attacks, allowing criminals to take control of the headset and steal sensitive information without the user’s knowledge, according to a study Make it. Last week, computer science researchers at the University of Chicago published an academic paper describing how flaws in Meta Quest VR’s […]
Meta’s review of hate speech policy sparks concern of further censorship of pro-Palestinian content | Meta
Meta is considering expanding and “reconsidering” its hate speech policy, which revolves around the term “Zionist”, The Guardian has confirmed. The company on Friday contacted and met with more than a dozen Arab, Islamic and pro-Palestinian groups to discuss the company’s plans to review its policies to ensure the term “Zionist” is no longer used […]
