Generative AI and sophisticated new brain targeting technologies, together with defeats suffered by authoritarian elites in molding opinions of citizens, is setting the stage for a different species of mind manipulation.
Tag: Meta
META’S “SMART GLASSES” CAN LEARN ALL ABOUT YOU
Meta designed its “smart” glasses as a wearable camera. They look like regular horn-rims but they’re able to take photos and videos of what you’re looking at.
META DEBUTS FILMMAKING AI
Meta has unveiled Movie Gen, its AI that can create realistic videos from written instructions. The system will play catch-up with similar offerings already out, including OpenAI’s Sora and developer Runway’s version.
ZUCKERBERG BOWED DOWN TO BIDEN GANG TO FIGHT COVID WAR, RUSSIA INTERFERENCE BULLSHIT
Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, said the Biden administration “pressured” Facebook to “censor certain COVID-19 content” and the Hunter Biden scandal and admitted that he regretted decisions the company made to keep the White House happy.
PRO-ISRAEL CENSORSHIP: ZUCKERBERG-OWNED META ACCUSED OF HYPOCRISY AFTER REMOVING POST
Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian prime minister, criticized Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta for displaying its “cowardice” after the social media giant removed a post from his Facebook page offering condolences to a Hamas official after Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.
WIRED SURPRISED TO FIND META USING FACEBOOK MEMORIES AND PHOTOS TO TRAIN THEIR AI
The wholesale theft of human creative content and knowledge by tech companies to drive profits to themselves via generative AI, is still something that even tech savvy news outlets are coming to grips with.
ISRAELI MEDIA OPERATION INFLUENCED CONGRESS
Two of Israel’s biggest backers in Congress were targets of a covert influence campaign by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs to help sell the genocide in Gaza to the American people, according to a report.
AI INVESTMENTS GET MIXED REVIEWS ON WALL STREET
Megatech companies have pledged to spend billions of dollars quarter after quarter to continue to develop and expand their lines of artificial intelligence (AI) products.
META, OPENAI SAY THEY SOON WILL RELEASE A “REASONING” AI
Meta and OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, will soon unveil an AI able to reason and plan ahead, the two companies have announced independently.