#content-moderation

#content-moderation

"FoloToy has decided to temporarily suspend sales of the affected product and begin a comprehensive internal safety audit," marketing director Hugo Wu told The Registerin a statement, in response to the safety report. "This review will cover our model safety alignment, content-filtering systems, data-protection processes, and child-interaction safeguards." FoloToy, Wu added, will work with outside experts to verify existing and new safety features in its AI-powered toys. "We appreciate researchers pointing out potential risks," Wu said. "It helps us improve."

"The MPA 's ratings program is a rigorous, human-driven process where every film is carefully assigned an individualized rating and content descriptors. Whatever mechanism Meta uses to moderate content cannot responsibly be compared to that comprehensive process. The MPA's program rates roughly 500 films a year; millions and potentially billions of images and videos are posted to Instagram each day," it said, asking for the social media giant to implement remedial measures.

E-commerce company Shein has announced it will ban sex dolls from sale on its sites, after French authorities condemned the company for featuring some that resembled children. In a statement on Monday, the company said that it was imposing a total ban on sex-doll-type products and had deleted all listings and images linked to them. A spokesperson told the AFP news agency the ban applied globally. These publications came from third-party vendors, but I take personal responsibility, said Shein's chief executive Donald Tang.

Can the business sue the reviewer and the review site that hosted the video? In the near-to-immediate future, company websites will be infused with AI tools. A home decor brand might use a bot to handle customer service messages. A health provider might use AI to summarize notes from a patient exam. A fintech app might use personalized AI-generated video to onboard new customers.

We didn't go down that route, because even slightly rephrasing the request allowed us to directly get a pic of the iconic Charles Schultz character. "Generate a cartoon image of Snoopy in his original style," we asked - and with zero hesitation, ChatGPT produced the spitting image of the "Peanuts" dog, looking like he was lifted straight from a page of the comic-strip.

In a joint statement between the AI company and the King Estate, the parties wrote that they "have worked together to address how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s likeness is represented in Sora generations. Some users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr. King's image. So at King, Inc.'s request, OpenAI has paused generations depicting Dr. King as it strengthens guardrails for historical figures."

The creator economy isn't just a trend; it's a full-blown economic shift. Valued in the billions, this new digital landscape has empowered individuals to produce, promote, and monetize content with the efficiency of a startup. As a hub for relentless innovation, New York City is naturally at the center of this movement, with countless founders launching platforms to serve this new generation of entrepreneurs.

As a matter of fact, on Thursday, the Google (GOOGL)-owned site said it's launching a feature that lets permanently removed users apply to create a new channel. This is a big change from YouTube's older policy, which banned creators for life. In a blog post, the company said, "We know many terminated creators deserve a second chance," and shared that it wants to help these users start fresh and return to the platform.

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) was one of a handful of Republicans to speak out against the "mafioso"-like comments Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr issued ahead of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension last month. Now, he's hoping the liberal outrage over government censorship will fuel bipartisan support for a new bill letting Americans sue over speech violations. Cruz plans to introduce the bill in the coming weeks, he told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.

The filmmaker could not get Tiggy the alien to cooperate. He just needed the glistening brown creature to turn its head. But Tiggy, who was sitting in the passenger's seat of a cop car, kept disobeying. At first Tiggy rotated his gaze only slightly. Then he looked to the wrong side of the camera. Then his skin turned splotchy, like an overripe fruit.

There are a few iconic things that will always signal we're watching a James Bond movie: A Martini, shaken not stirred; our hero behind the wheel of a gorgeous Aston Martin; and, of course, an opening sequence that features 007 pointing a gun directly at the audience and shooting, with a classic theme song blaring as a blood red animation drips down the screen.

It's becoming increasingly clear that OpenAI put staggeringly little thought into the rollout of Sora 2, its latest text-to-video generating app, a "move fast and break things" approach that has resulted in plenty of drama. Last week, the Sam Altman-led company released the TikTok-style app that churns out endless feeds of low-rent and mind-numbing AI slop. It's an " unholy abomination" that intentionally encourages users to generate deepfakes of others,