Throw a rock in New York City, and apparently you’ll hit an AI food ad. At least that was X user Maggie Moda’s assessment after spotting a series of peculiar sidewalk signs outside the city’s delis and cafés in a post that has since racked up 2.8 million views. There were croissant sandwiches with almost
“We’ve heard that people don’t like seeing a profile that seems human, only to find out later that the person featured is AI-generated,” said Instagram in a blog post. “They want to know when a profile features an AI-generated person.” To that end, Instagram will be hunting down accounts that don’t self-label their AI-generated profiles,
For nearly three decades, 59-year-old Eileen Munoz spent her workdays in a cubicle. To her, the tiny confined desk came to represent everything she felt about her 9-to-5 career in insurance: stuck. The most she ever made in a year was $70,000, and she eventually became so burnt out that she would cry on Sundays
Meta has agreed to pay up to US$17 billion over 10 years to settle claims brought by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general. The states argued that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to hook children into using its apps, misled the public about the harm and improperly collected data from children under
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times.
A settlement announced Wednesday between Meta and dozens of states resolves one of its biggest legal fights, but the social media giant is still facing litigation elsewhere over its products’ effects on young people’s mental health. The deal cut short a landmark trial in federal court in Oakland, California, where the Instagram and Facebook parent
