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It will soon be easier to see Facebook and Instagram posts in 200 lesser-spoken languages around the world. Meta’s No Language Left Behind (NLLB) project announced in a paper published this month that they’ve scaled their original technology. The project includes a dozen “low resource” European languages, like Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Irish, Lingurian, Bosnian, Icelandic and Welsh. According to Meta, that’s a language that has less than one million sentences in data that can be used. Experts say that to improve the service, Meta should consult with native speakers and language specialists as...
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Thread users everywhere will now see their posts deeper in the so-called "fediverse," Meta announced this week. Except, that is, those who live in the European Union. Before this, users would have to go to Mastodon or Bluesky to see any replies to their Thread posts that were syndicated there, meaning you’d have to bounce from app to app, but now users won’t have to. The announcement is part of Meta’s wider expansion of a "fediverse" to over 100 countries; a significant move from its initial availability for users in the US, Canada, and Japan only. But what is the fediverse? Short for "federat...
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By Hera Rizwan Vikas*, a wholesale vegetable dealer from Bareilly, came across an Instagram ad featuring Shah Rukh Khan promoting a Telegram channel of a match predictor named ‘Zain CBTF’. The video seemingly of the Bollywood actor refers to Zain as the “god of betting prediction”, boasting about Zain's impressive streak of predicting winning IPL teams. The ad claims Zain had to flee to Nepal as “several bookies were after his life”, but still runs the Telegram channel helping people mint money out of betting. Vikas took the bait and joined the Telegram channel. He placed a bet on an IPL match...
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Meta is no stranger to controversy. Last year, it was fined a record €1.2 billion for breaching EU data protection rules. Now the tech giant has paused the rollout of its AI assistant in Europe, after the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) told Meta to postpone its plan to use data from Facebook and Instagram adult users to train large language models (LLMs). “We said, ‘It's sad that is your point of view. We believe it could be a different view, but you are the regulator.’ So, we pause everything and we have postponed some specific tools, what we call Meta AI, for the EU,” Laurent Solly,...
Euronews (English)
総務省は6月21日、「Facebook」「Instagram」などを提供する米Meta Platfo...
CNET Japan
総務省は21日、SNSにおけるなりすまし型偽広告への対応について、FacebookやInstagra...
Impress Watch
Social media giant Meta is postponing the launch of its new artificial intelligence (AI) software in Europe following concerns from data protection agencies. The Irish data protection authority responsible for Meta in the EU demanded the company not train AI models using publicly available posts on Facebook and Instagram for the time being. Without training using local content, Meta cannot offer users in Europe a first-class experience, the company said in a blog post on Friday. At the same time, Meta said it is convinced that its approach complies with European laws and regulations. Meta is n...
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Europe woke this week to a rightward-shifted European Parliament, although the so-called ‘grand coalition’ between the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the liberal Renew Europe group still stands, with just over 400 lawmakers between them. Most of the rapporteurs – the lawmakers in charge of steering a file through Parliament – on key technology dossiers in the last mandate emerged from the EPP, S&D and Renew groups. But Renew, as well as the Greens, lost significantly in the EU elections. Some marginal parties which previously impa...
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Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly called Twitter, has become more popular with right-leaning users in the two years since he bought the company, newly published research has found. The Pew Research Center study, which looked at some 10,200 social media users in the United States, found that the percentage of Republicans that said X is "mostly good" for democracy increased to 53 per cent this year, a figure that has tripled since 2021. Meanwhile, just 26 per cent of Democrat users said X was good for democracy this year, compared to 47 per cent in 2021. Musk has said his aims was to...
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Mit einer Abmahnung gegen den Facebook-Konzern Meta will die Verbraucherzentrale NRW verhindern, dass das Internet-Unternehmen ungefragt Inhalte seiner Anwenderinnen und Anwender zum Training seiner KI-Modelle verwendet. Die europäische Konzerntochter Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. wurde zur Abgabeeiner Unterlassungserklärung aufgefordert. Meta hat in den vergangenen Tagen massenhaft die Nutzer von Facebook, Instagram und Threads angeschrieben, um sie über die Anpassung seiner Datenschutzerklärung zu informieren. «Wir aktualisieren unsere Datenschutzrichtlinie, da wir KI bei Meta ausweiten», hei...
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