Section 3.4 of this paper discusses some of the issues that the use of image and text generators in the information ecosystem and it didn't occur to me that social media platforms would just make it an option for people to generate fake profiles. https://
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dia/meta-ai-insta-shuts-character-instagram-fb-accounts-user-outcry-rcna186177
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Meta AI Instagram Generates Fake Profiles Amid User Backlash
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GenAI developers must verify and define benefits in 2025
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2025 is the year developers of GenAI technologies will be expected to define and verify their presumed benefits, says @StanfordHealth Chief Data Scientist @drnigam
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Zuckerberg’s Georgetown Speech and Community Notes Strategy
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Zuckerberg references his “Georgetown Speech”; I wrote about it at the time, and the embrace of community notes very much makes the point https://t.co/zlxJzc5E1u https://t.co/MVjk16Uwi9
— Ben Thompson (@benthompson) 7 janvier 2025Zuckerberg references his “Georgetown Speech”; I wrote about it at the time, and the embrace of community notes very much makes the point https://
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Meta and FCC Leadership Changes: Kaplan and Martin Promotions
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To clarify, Kaplan also worked at Meta but was just promoted. (Kevin Martin, who was appointed to the FCC by Bush, also just got promoted to take over Kaplan’s old role.)
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Meta hires GOP-aligned executives Dana White Joel Kaplan
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Which other GOP-aligned people has Meta either hired or promoted in the past few days? (Dana White, Joel Kaplan, Francis Brennan, Kevin Martin…)
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Meta Hires Third GOP Official in Week, Replaces Clegg
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Dana White, who intro’d Trump at the 2024 RNC, is Meta’s third GOP hire in a week. -Republican Joel Kaplan just replaced @nickclegg
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Oxygen Supply Chain Disruption Threatens Hospital Critical Operations
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I think the biggest "buzz" so-to-speak, @greetpool
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Stanford HAI Council Member Engages World Leaders on AI Importance
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Congratulations @StanfordHAI Advisory Council member @vsikka for engaging with world leaders on the importance of AI
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Universities lag behind industry in frontier AI research development
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Academic scholars invented nearly all of the core technologies behind AI. But today, no university can build a frontier AI system on par with industry. What does this mean for public sector AI research? Our latest brief presents policy recommendations:
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Geopolitical AI Race: Countries Push Boundaries Across All Levels
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Nous entrons dans une ère où des pays ont décidé de repousser toutes les frontières, à tous les niveaux. Vous avez le droit de penser qu’ils ont tort. Sauf qu’ils le feront, avec ou contre nous. Donc soit on s’oblige à faire partie du game, soit on sort de l’histoire. Au choix.