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Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 day ago

People are using Grok to create lewd images of women and young girls

Removal of guardrails on Grok enabled users to generate nonconsensual explicit images, prompting regulatory scrutiny and raising ethical and safety concerns about generative AI harms to women.
Europe news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

UK presses X to address intimate deepfake images

Nonconsensual intimate deepfake images of women and minors are proliferating on X via Grok, prompting urgent calls for the platform to remove illegal content and act swiftly.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Now Musk's Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won't stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer

It's a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X's AI chatbot, has been used repeatedly by users in recent days to undress images of women and minors. The news outlet Reuters identified 102 requests in a 10-minute period last Friday from users to get Grok to edit people into bikinis, the majority of these targeting young women. Grok complied with at least 21 of them.
Artificial intelligence
#ai-image-generation
#meta
fromTheWrap
2 months ago
Social media marketing

Meta Rakes in Over $16 Billion on Fraudulent Ads While Users Face a Flood of Misinformation | Report

fromTheWrap
2 months ago
Social media marketing

Meta Rakes in Over $16 Billion on Fraudulent Ads While Users Face a Flood of Misinformation | Report

Video games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Resident Evil's 'Impossible' Game Boy Version Is Now Playable

Retro game preservation and nostalgia-driven collectibles spur renewed interest while exposing platform safety issues and uncertainty over speculative long-term value.
#ad-fraud
Online marketing
fromRAPPLER
2 months ago

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, internal documents show

Meta earned substantial revenue from scam and banned-goods advertising while allowing widespread fraudulent ads to persist across its platforms.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Teenage boys using personalised' AI for therapy and romance, survey finds

Hyper-personalised AI chatbots are increasingly used by teenage boys for therapy, companionship and romantic relationships, raising concerns about misrepresentation and insufficient safeguards.
Social media marketing
fromExchangewire
2 months ago

Digest: Nine, Paramount-Ten in Talks on Ad Sales Merger; Perplexity Halts Ad Signups; EU Reviews Kids' Safety on Major Platforms - ExchangeWire.com

Nine and Ten are negotiating a unified ad-sales deal to consolidate broadcast revenue; Perplexity pauses new advertisers while regulators review platform safety and TikTok moderation.
Marketing tech
fromgizmodo.com
3 months ago

Meta Will Use AI Chat History to Serve You Even More Targeted Ads

Meta will use AI chatbot conversations to hyper-personalize users' social feeds and ads across its platforms, effective December 16, with no opt-out.
Mobile UX
fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Hinge is taking a fairer approach to account banning | TechCrunch

Hinge will flag and remove specific profile violations rather than ban entire accounts, keep profiles hidden until fixed, notify users, and still ban repeat offenders.
fromGameSpot
3 months ago

Roblox Adds TikTok-Style Video Feed And New AI Creator Tools

Roblox Moments is in beta now, and consists of short videos up to 30 seconds in a vertical format that'll be familiar to anyone who uses TikTok or Instagram Reels. The difference with Roblox Moments is that the videos are taken directly within various Roblox experiences--what the platform calls the user-created games and apps that live on the platform. When scrolling through Moments, users will be able to go directly to the featured experiences from the video feed.
Video games
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