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Judi Dench, John Cena and other celebrities to voice Meta AI chatbot | Science & Tech News
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Dame Judi Dench, John Cena and Awkwafina will all voice Meta AI – the artificial intelligence being rolled out by Instagram and Facebook owner Meta. As part of an update to its Llama model, people will now be able to interact with Meta AI – the company’s ChatGPT-like chatbot – by speaking and getting responses…
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Viral post falsely claims to stop Meta using your data to train AI – here’s how to actually stop it | Science & Tech News
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Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users, including actors Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale, have shared a post that supposedly revokes Meta’s right to train its artificial intelligence tool using their information. “Goodbye Meta AI,” it says before saying the user does “not give Meta or anyone else permission to use any of personal data, profile…
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Russian officials accuse Meta of ‘overt censorship’ after global Instagram and Facebook ban | Science & Tech News
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Russian officials are accusing Meta of “overt censorship” after the company banned Russian state media networks from its apps. RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other state media accounts were blocked around the world over claims they carried out covert operations to influence social media users. The Russian Embassy in the UK has now told Sky News…
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Mark Zuckerberg says Biden administration officials ‘pressured’ Meta to ‘censor’ content during pandemic | US News
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Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that senior officials within the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor” COVID-related content during the pandemic. The claims by the CEO of Meta are in a letter dated 26 August to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Zuckerberg said he regretted not speaking up about this pressure earlier, as well…
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Meta is planning to use your Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI – and not everyone can opt out | Science & Tech News
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If you have an Instagram or Facebook account in the UK or European Union, everything you share publicly on those platforms may soon be used to train artificial intelligence (AI). From today, Meta was going to use the posts to train its AI model, but it faced 11 legal challenges in Europe. The Irish Data Protection Commission…
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Meta shares take $125bn hit as Facebook owner raises spending forecasts | Business News
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Shares in Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have fallen sharply after the company revealed it had raised its cost forecast for the current year. Investors sent the stock 10% lower in after-hours trading in New York when Meta‘s first-quarter results showed further bills were expected to fund new artificial intelligence (AI) products…
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Schools won’t use Meta Quest VR unless teachers have ‘complete visibility and control’, says Nick Clegg | Science & Tech News
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Virtual reality headsets will not be used in schools under a new Meta scheme unless teachers can monitor what pupils are doing, Sir Nick Clegg has said amid growing concerns about child safety in the metaverse. Mr Clegg said: “This is not going to be used in the classroom unless teachers feel they have complete…
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Meta criticised after lowering WhatsApp minimum age from 16 to 13 | Science & Tech News
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Meta has lowered the minimum age to use the popular messaging platform WhatsApp. The move, which came into effect on Thursday, reduces the age limit from 16 down to 13 in the UK and EU. It has been criticised by a number of campaign groups who have urged the company to reverse the decision. Smartphone…
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Apple, Meta and Google parent company investigated by EU | Science & Tech News
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Apple, Meta and Google’s parent company are being investigated by the European Union under new laws designed to clamp down on the market power of the world’s tech giants. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force at the beginning of March and aims to tackle “gatekeeping” behaviour among tech giants. If the companies are…
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Are Facebook and Instagram still down? Meta boss apologises for ‘technical issue’ which hit thousands of users | Science & Tech News
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Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads suffered widespread problems on Tuesday afternoon, with users locked out of their accounts and pages failing to load properly. Facebook outages reported on Down Detector shot up just before 3pm, with more than 300,000 problems logged. More than 25,000 Instagram outages were also reported via the website, which collates status…