#hate-speech

#hate-speech

The last few months have been by far the most exciting of my 17 years working on artificial intelligence.Among many other advances, OpenAI's ChatGPT a type of AI known as a large language model smashed records in January to become the fastest-growing consumer application of all time, achieving 100 million users in two months.

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It's been a while since we had a chat about the crustpunk Nazi bar known as Twitter.The dead-ending bird decided press the issue for us.~ 3 ~ Community members have been asking in comments about the now-empty widget in the right-hand vertical navigation zone.It's dead, Jim.

Sportswear company Adidas has said that it will attempt to sell the remaining merchandise it designed with musician Kanye West, officially known as Ye, following the end of the pair's partnership after he posted antisemitic comments online.The move was announced yesterday by Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden during the brand's annual general company meeting in Germany.

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up Buy Me Maybe here.Could Experian acquire LiveRamp?LiveRamp is the data onboarding company behind the deterministic alternative ID option RampID.Whispers of a LiveRamp sale started late last year when its stock price plummeted alongside that of many other ad tech stocks.

An Irish Government minister has insisted there is no conspiracy behind new hate speech laws as he dismissed criticism levelled by Donald Trump Jnr and Elon Musk.Justice minister Simon Harris said when someone from the Trump family or Mr Musk took a contrary view it was not a bad day at the office.Mr Harris said people portraying the new legislation as an attempt to police thought were seeking to misrepresent the intent of the laws.

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, inspects weapons collected as part of an amnesty near the city of Smederevo, Serbia, Sunday, May 14, 2023.AP BELGRADE, Serbia Authorities in Serbia on Sunday displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rocket launchers, that they said people handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation.

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are facing rising pressure from European authorities as London and Brussels advanced new rules Tuesday to curb the power of digital companies.They're among those on a list of the 19 biggest online platforms and search engines that the European Union's executive arm said must meet extra obligations for cleaning up illegal content and disinformation and keeping users safe under the 27-nation bloc's landmark digital rules that take effect later this year.

Nothing, Forever, an AI-generated livestream inspired by Seinfeld is back on Twitch after being taken offline for an anti-LGBTQ outburst, has reported.After launching in December, the show (from Mismatch Media) became internet-famous for its Seinfeld-adjacent plots, janky '90s-era video game style animation and terrible (though coherent) dialogue.

Far-right Daily Wire host Michael Knowles called for eradicating "Transgenderism" during this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) but insisted he did not call for killing transgender people.In his speech, Knowles's claimed that "For the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely - the whole preposterous ideology, at every level."

The ex-leader of the Progressive Democrats is raising queries on Incitement to Violence or Hatred Bill 2022 which passed through Dáil Éireann and is now for consideration by the Seanad
He is asking "Is transgender a gender for the purposes of Irish law?"The ex-leader of the Progressive Democrats is raising queries on Incitement to Violence or Hatred Bill 2022 which passed through Dáil Éireann and is now for consideration by the Seanad.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins on Wednesday said he was axing or delaying many of his government's more contentious policy plans as he looked to refocus on priorities like the rising cost of living.

The original soap box was the first "soapbox" and social media has evolved to be a digitalized version.... [+]
getty Social media used to be a platform where users "exposed" personal details.Some believed it necessary to share the small things of their daily lives.They could be called "the good times" when compared to the evolution of social media.

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(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's potential return to Meta Platform's Facebook (NASDAQ:) and Instagram is unlikely to change how advertisers spend money with the world's second-largest digital ad company, ad agency executives said.

Screengrab: Twitch/@watchmeforever Since taking off last month, thousands of viewers have tuned into Nothing, Forever, an endless AI-generated Seinfeld parody that streams 24/7 on Twitch.The show has an uncanny charmlow resolution 3D renderings of the show's four main characters, Larry, Yvonne, Fred, and Kakler, scuttle about awkwardly, clipping through furniture as they mumble nonsensical AI-written punchlines that never quite connect.

With so many changes coming to Twitter , many wonder if marketing on the platform could be impacted in 2023.While we at HubSpot can't say for sure what the future holds for Twitter, we surveyed over 100 marketing professionals to get their perspectives on whether they'd still use the platform going forward.