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Shaheed is the "most moderated" word on Facebook, but Meta will no longer ban it

The complete ban did not take into account the linguistic complexity of the Arabic word "shaheed," which has multiple meanings in translation. Meta has long applied a policy of full ban on the word "shaheed," which has become the most moderated in th...

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"But we're better than Google and OpenAI, aren't we?": Meta gets in the way of training its AI on Facebook and Instagram posts

The Meta Corporation has announced that starting today, it will begin training its AI on posts on Facebook and Instagram that were published by citizens of the UK or EU countries. However, not everyone agrees with this, reports SkyNews. Legal problem...

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What happened to Facebook? Meta social networks drowned in fakes, while generated ones denote real photos

Chances are you've recently come across Facebook posts asking for likes to support handsome brothers fighting for Ukraine, or a grandmother who knitted a tank, baked the world's largest "palyanitsia" - and if you are familiar with the art of neural n...

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Following the example of YouTube. Meta launches Instagram ads that cannot be missed

Advertising is the biggest source of revenue for Meta, so the company plans to make it even more intrusive on Instagram. According to social media reports, Instagram users have noticed a new type of advertisement in the app, similar to YouTube, that...

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Artificial intelligence slaves: African workers accuse OpenAI, Meta and others of inhumane working conditions - open letter to Biden

Artificial intelligence language models, such as ChatGPT from OpenAI, partially gather data from low-paid workers. Contractors in poor countries pay small amounts for tasks like correcting chatbot data, labeling images, and so on. On May 22, 97 Afri...

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Ex-X Twitter manager (the one who slept in the office), now works at Meta and has some interesting things to say about Ilon Musk

Remember the woman who slept in the X Twitter office and justified Elon Musk's methods, but was still fired? Well, now Esther Crawford works for Mark Zuckerberg at Meta, which she shared on Instagram. Crawford was X Twitter's product management direc...

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Meta unveiled the Meta Horizon OS and announced new VR headsets for Xbox, Asus and Lenovo

Meta introduces the Meta Horizon OS operating system and collaborates with Microsoft to create a limited edition Meta Quest virtual reality headset, "inspired by Xbox". The companies do not disclose details about this headset, but it appears to be a ...

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Chatbot Meta joined a parenting Facebook group and claimed to have a child too

And he still doesn't know about chats in Viber... Meta chat-bot joined the discussion in a Facebook group uniting tens of thousands of parents from New York and suddenly announced that he also has a child - of the "2e" category (usually meaning that ...

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Instagram will blur nudes sent to Direct to teens

Instagram will start testing a feature that blurs messages containing images of nude bodies. The main goal of this innovation is to protect teenagers and prevent contact with potential scammers. Meta has announced that the protection feature for Dir...

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Meta updated Messenger - shared albums, HD photo support and sending files up to 100 MB

Users can now create photo and video albums in shared Messenger chats - to do this, you need to select several individual images from the conversation (by tapping or holding) and activate the "Add to Album" option. Each chat participant can view, add...

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Mark Zuckerberg became the third richest man in the world with $186.9 billion and surpassed Ilon Musk

Mark Zuckerberg has surpassed Elon Musk and has become the third richest person in the world. In early March, Musk was in first place in the Bloomberg billionaire index, but dropped to fourth after news of his canceled exit (which Musk later denied)....

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Meta's generative artificial intelligence creates images of pairs of people of the same race, even when the requests are directly opposite

Generative artificial intelligence Meta tends to create images of people of the same race, even if it was explicitly stated otherwise. For example, when requesting "Asian and Caucasian friend" or "Asian and white wife", the image generator creates im...

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Canadian school boards sue TikTok, Meta and SnapChat - platforms are interfering with children's lives and education

Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have initiated legal proceedings against TikTok, Meta, and SnapChat, alleging that social media platforms are disrupting the learning process. The plaintiffs are seeking damages ex...

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Zuckerberg was photographed wearing Jensen Huang's new leather jacket and compared him to "Taylor Swift in the tech world"

It seems that Zuckerberg likes Huang's style, while the Nvidia boss looks somewhat embarrassed in the photo, as he had to try on Mark's leather jacket instead. On Tuesday, the head of Meta posted a photo on Instagram where he and Huang are posing in...

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Mark Zuckerberg 'recruits' Google DeepMind researchers via personal emails - The Information

The head of Meta is looking for talent in the field of artificial intelligence. Mark Zuckerberg writes personal emails to AI specialists at Google DeepMind to lure them to Meta, reports The Information citing two people who have seen the messages. On...

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