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By Hera Rizwan Escalating the issue of surge in manipulated content aimed at India, two major tech firms, Meta and OpenAI, each released reports this week detailing their actions against accounts posting content intended to sway public opinion, particularly regarding India's general elections. In its report, OpenAI, the US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company behind ChatGPT, revealed its disruption of a covert influence campaign by an Israeli firm. The campaign used OpenAI's AI model to fabricate fake social media personas and generate content related to the Indian elections, including '...
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By Hera Rizwan As Meta prepares to unveil its expansive Llama 3 AI model, indications suggest that the company has already using Instagram and Facebook data for its training. Users of these platforms are automatically enrolled to provide consent for this data usage. Although they retain the choice to opt out, the process involves multiple steps, raising potential concerns regarding data privacy. To power chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, extensive datasets are essential for training. Insufficient training data is recognized as a potential obstacle to the future development of generativ...
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By Archis Chowdhury In the beginning of April, Meta revamped its rules on AI-generated content and deepfakes, and announced the labelling of AI-generated video, audio and images with "Made with AI". In India, Meta platforms has since been flooded with political deepfakes, but the "Made with AI" label is nowhere to be seen. Political parties have been using AI to target their opponents for months, and appear to have free rein on Facebook and Instagram, with their official and proxy pages riddled with deepfakes, often shared as satire. Celebrities and politicians have become fair game for memes ...
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A new message appeared for European users of Instagram and Facebook mobile applications this month, informing them that their public posts could be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) from June 26. The information used could include posts, photos, captions and messages sent to an AI but not the content of private messages, Instagram’s help centre said. Parent company Meta said in a statement last week that they would begin notifying people in the UK and EU about how they will use "public information they have shared on Meta's products and services to develop and improve AI at Meta withi...
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The Irish data protection authority, responsible for implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issued privacy fines totalling €1.55 billion in 2023, a record since the GDPR came into force in 2018, it said in its activity report published yesterday (29 May). Chinese-owned social network TikTok was fined €345m in September 2023 for mishandling the personal data of users aged under 18. The investigation found problems with default public settings, parental controls, and age verification. In 2021, the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the British Information Commissioner’s Offi...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Social media giant Meta says its bid to thwart coordinated disinformation campaigns created through ever-improving generative AI is working, despite widespread concerns. Meta's latest study on "coordinated inauthentic behavior" on its platforms comes as fears mount that generative AI will be used to trick or confuse people in upcoming elections worldwide, notably in the United States. "What we've seen so far is that our industry's existing defenses, including our focus on behavior rather than content in countering adversarial threats, already apply and appear to be effect...
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Malicious attempts to influence users on Meta’s platforms mostly focussed on local rather than the upcoming EU elections, a threat report published by Meta today (29 May) suggests. “While we’ve seen public discourse ahead of the EU parliamentary elections focus primarily on foreign threats, the majority of the EU-focused inauthentic behaviour we’ve disrupted so far has been domestic in nature,” the mid-year update into the global threat landscape, said. Most of the attempts to spread fake news were made at citizens in member state and were linked to individuals associated with local campaigns ...
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Führende Tech-Unternehmen aus den USA wie Google, Meta und Microsoft sowie Unternehmen aus anderen Ländern haben sich zu Beginn eines Gipfels zur Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) zu einem verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit der Technologie verpflichtet. Die führenden KI-Tech-Unternehmen, einschließlich solcher aus China und den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, sagten zu, im äußersten Fall «KI-Modelle nicht zu entwickeln oder anzuwenden, falls die Risiken nicht ausreichend entschärft werden können», wie die britische Regierung mitteilte. Großbritannien und Südkorea sind die Ausrichter eines KI-Gipfels ...
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The European Commission announced on Thursday that it has opened investigations into Meta over child protection concerns regarding its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The investigations concern fears the two platforms "may exploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors and cause addictive behaviour," according to a commission press release. Another concern is "rabbit hole" effects that "draw you in to more and more disturbing content," a commission official said. The EU executive is also concerned about minors' access to inappropriate content, as well as privacy. The two probes into Faceb...
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The European Commission announced on Thursday that it has opened investigations into Meta over child protection concerns regarding its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The investigations concern fears the two platforms "may exploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors and cause addictive behaviour," according to a commission press release. Another concern is "rabbit hole" effects that "draw you in to more and more disturbing content," a commission official said. The EU executive is also concerned about minors' access to inappropriate content, as well as privacy. The two probes into Faceb...
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