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Meta's AI image generator Imagine is having a lot of trouble, well, imagining an Asian person posing for the camera alongside a white person.
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Meta’s AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White Women

By Victor Tangermann

The NYPD is back at it again, wasting taxpayer dollars on AI metal detectors for the subway in its latest effort to look busy.
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NYPD Purchases Expensive AI Metal Detectors That May or May Not Actually Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook is quickly being overrun by dubious, AI-generated junk — which is attracting huge amounts of attention from its aging user base.
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Facebook Is Making Insane AI-Generated Fever Dreams Go Viral for Gullible Boomers

By Victor Tangermann

Prosecutors are looking into whether Meta profited from ad sales for regulated drugs and the shady telehealth services that pushed them.
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Feds Investigating Whether Meta Profited From “Illicit” Drug Sales

By Noor Al-Sibai

Practically every single website owned by Facebook parent Meta is currently down for at least tens of thousands of users, as of Tuesday morning.
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Every Single Meta Site Just Went Down

By Victor Tangermann

Meta is promising to roll out auto-labeling for AI-generated images soon — but its new protocols may still fall short of the mark. 
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Meta’s Plans to Label AI-Generated Content Are a Sad Fart

By Noor Al-Sibai

Executives at Meta are so freaked out by CEO Mark Zuckerberg's extracurriculars that they're warning investors that he might straight up die. 
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Meta Warns That Mark Zuckerberg Could Die at Any Moment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's AI image generator is spitting out freaky images — and its ad manager is, apparently, using them to monetize rule-breaking content.
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Facebook Approves Disgusting Pro-Anorexia and Drug Ads Targeted at Teens and Made With Its Own AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Now that he's all but abandoned the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's pivot to artificial intelligence is in the spotlight.
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Bored With the Metaverse, Zuckerberg Spending Billions on AI Chips

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers at Facebook's parent company Meta has come up with a new benchmark to gauge the intelligence of AI.
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Facebook Researchers Test AI’s Intelligence and Find It Is Unfortunately Quite Stupid

By Victor Tangermann

According to Meta's AI-powered Tom Brady horcrux, Colin Kaepernick just isn't good enough to play in the NFL. Oh, yeah, and he's "drama."
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Meta’s AI-Powered Tom Brady Bot Trashes Colin Kaepernick, Saying He “Ain’t Good Enough” to Play in the NFL

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As The Information reports, one unnamed celebrity got as much as $5 million from Meta to be turned into an AI chatbot.
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Facebook Is Paying Celebrities Millions to Turn Them Into Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

Meta is marching forward with its solution for reviving declining user numbers: introducing an array of AI-powered chatbots to its services.
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Losing Human Users, Facebook Releasing Chatbots for Lonely to Talk To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook is secretly developing a powerful new AI model designed to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4.
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Meta Is Apparently Developing a Secret, Powerful New AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Priscilla Chan is not at all pleased that her husband, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has built a fighting ring in their backyard.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Unhappy He’s Building Fighting Arena in their Backyard

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook's parent company Meta is about to launch AI-powered chatbots that are meant to lure users back to the mammoth social media platform.
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Meta Launching AI-Powered Friends to Talk to on Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter
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Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Shocking: people are reportedly using Meta's open-source large language model LLaMA, to create graphic, guardrail-less AI sexbots.
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People Are Using Meta’s New AI to Make Graphic Sexbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn
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Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, took to Twitter to proclaim that humans are hardwired for either "dominance or submission."
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Meta’s Head of AI Has Some Interesting Beliefs About Dominance and Submission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta-formerly-Facebook will lay off another 10,000 of the company's still-standing employees.
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Facebook Is Getting Slammed by Another Round of Brutal Cuts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The artificial intelligence arms race is barging ahead at full speed — and now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is getting in on the game.
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Mark Zuckerberg Bows to Peer Pressure, Announces Pivot to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's ChatGPT might be speeding up the process of getting a realistic, AI-powered digital avatar of your dead loved one to market.
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Metaverse CEO Says ChatGPT Is Speeding Up Timeline for Emulating Dead People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After many months pissing off stakeholders, Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally made them happy — by saying that he's leaning into AI.
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Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Lean Hard Into AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The board tasked with overseeing decisions at Facebook is suggesting the company take a long, hard look at its infamous "female-presenting nipple" rule.
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Meta Board Trashes Facebook’s “Convoluted and Poorly Defined” Female Nipple Rule

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook restricted a post on Planned Parenthood of Michigan's Facebook page about ordering the abortion pill online and getting an abortion.
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Facebook Restricts Perfectly Reasonable Abortion Info from Planned Parenthood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Within the span of a weekend, Facebook's new chatbot learned to be a racist conspiracist— and the company has already had to respond to headlines about it. 
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Facebook Forced to Defend Its Brand New, Already-Racist Chatbot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mixed feelings about Mark Zuckerburg? Meta's advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, doesn't seem to know how it feels about Meta's founder and CEO, either.
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Meta’s AI Chatbot Calls Mark Zuckerberg “Creepy and Manipulative”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

META, an art installation company, is now suing Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook, claiming that its identity has been stolen.
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Another Company Called Meta Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company for Changing Its Name to Meta

By Frank Landymore

Vice has confirmed that Facebook is removing status updates that discuss mailed abortion pills, and has even issued temporary bans to some users.
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Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook emperor Mark Zuckerberg has teased the existence of his company Meta's latest mixed reality headset dubbed Project Cambria.
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Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off New AR Headset But Blurs It Out for Some Bizarre Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Good news, everyone: Mark Zuckerberg is not a robot after all.
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Watch Mark Zuckerberg Take a CAPTCHA to Prove He’s Not a Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook has teamed up with Ray-Ban to come up with a pair of smart sun glasses that absolutely nobody asked for.The design is as creepy as it is familiar.
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Facebook: Taping Over Camera LED on Our Glasses is a TOS Violation

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook announced that is is abandoning plans to develop a brain-computer interface headset capable of turning brain signals into spoken words.
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Facebook Abandons Plans for Mind-Reading Headset

By Victor Tangermann

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests there may be a link between social media use and depression, NPR reports. Facebook disagrees.
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Scientists Say There’s a Clear Link Between Facebook and Depression

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook released a new video, showing off a prototype of a wrist-worn device meant to serve as a controller for its upcoming augmented reality glasses.
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Facebook’s Neural Wristband Actually Sounds Pretty Cool

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new blog post, Facebook is hoping to hook up its upcoming AR glasses to a "soft wristband" that can control them.
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Facebook Shows Off Neural “Wristbands” to Control AR Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

A seed company uploaded a picture of onions to market its seeds on Facebook. The algorithm flagged it for being "overtly sexualized."
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Facebook Algorithm Flags Onions as “Overtly Sexualized”

By Dan Robitzski

At an event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that the social network is still hoping to one day release a brain-controlled wearable
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Mark Zuckerberg: Wearables Will Soon Read Your Mind

By Victor Tangermann

After a week away from Facebook, undergrads felt better and made healthier choices. But they were also eager to sign on again.
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A Week Break From Facebook Can Make You Less Depressed

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook released a new data policy for its Portal devices that reveals the company will occasionally store audio recordings of Portal users.
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Facebook: Actually, We Do Listen to You Sometimes

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook paid third-party contractors to write up transcriptions of user's conversations, despite the company's insistence that it doesn't record us.
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Facebook Has Been Secretly Transcribing Your Conversations

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has announced it's collaborating with researchers to build a real-time brain decoding device that could help patients with neurological damage.
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Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Air Force “Stands Ready” to Defend Area 51 From Facebook Event
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Air Force “Stands Ready” to Defend Area 51 From Facebook Event

By Victor Tangermann

Facebooks is changing how it ranks "miracle cures" and unproven medical treatments — but will it be enought to stem the medical misinformation tide?
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Facebook Is Finally Fighting Its Pseudoscience “Miracle Cure” Content Problem

By Kristin Houser

In an interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about a device that could one day allow users to navigate menus or even type using their minds alone.
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Zuckerberg: Facebook is Building a Machine to Read Your Thoughts

By Victor Tangermann

On Friday, two former Facebook content moderators signed on to a lawsuit, alleging that they also suffered from symptoms of PTSD.
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Former Content Moderators Are Suing Facebook Over PTSD and Trauma

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's content moderators work under grueling conditions and are often traumatized by the videos they have to watch and remove.
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Facebook Mods Are so Traumatized They’re Getting High at Work

By Dan Robitzski

A Wall Street Journal investigation reveals that several popular health tracking apps send data to Facebook without ever asking or informing users.
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Those Health Apps Send Your Biometric Data Straight to Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

Leaked documents showing how Facebook controls speech online raise deep questions about the future of the company's role in international discourse.
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Leaked Documents Show How Facebook Controls Speech Across the Globe

By Jon Christian

Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages
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Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech
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Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech

By Victor Tangermann

Think Deleting Your Facebook Profile Is Hard? Try Deleting Your Genomic Data.
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Think Deleting Your Facebook Profile Is Hard? Try Deleting Your Genomic Data.

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Accused of Giving Users’ Personal Data To Every Major Device Maker (Updated)
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Facebook Accused of Giving Users’ Personal Data To Every Major Device Maker (Updated)

By Victor Tangermann

Uganda Is Taxing WhatsApp and Facebook, Because Users “Gossip”
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Uganda Is Taxing WhatsApp and Facebook, Because Users “Gossip”

By Victor Tangermann

It’s Begun: Facebook Just Banned 200 Apps For Abusing User Data
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It’s Begun: Facebook Just Banned 200 Apps For Abusing User Data

By Victor Tangermann

So, Yeah: Facebook Is Mining Your Instagram Photos, Too
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So, Yeah: Facebook Is Mining Your Instagram Photos, Too

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook Wants to Use All Its Dirt on You to Help You Find Love
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Facebook Wants to Use All Its Dirt on You to Help You Find Love

By Victor Tangermann

Here Are the Best Reactions to Mark Zuckerberg’s Stint in Front of Congress
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Here Are the Best Reactions to Mark Zuckerberg’s Stint in Front of Congress

By Sarah Marquart

Hearings Show Congress Doesn’t Understand Facebook Well Enough To Regulate It
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Hearings Show Congress Doesn’t Understand Facebook Well Enough To Regulate It

By Victor Tangermann

While Mark Zuckerberg Testified Before Congress, Senators Introduced Legislation That Would Finally Rein Facebook in
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While Mark Zuckerberg Testified Before Congress, Senators Introduced Legislation That Would Finally Rein Facebook in

By Alexandra Ossola

If Zuck’s Prepared Statements Prove One Thing, It’s That Facebook Has Become Far Too Big
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If Zuck’s Prepared Statements Prove One Thing, It’s That Facebook Has Become Far Too Big

By Victor Tangermann

Surprise! Quitting Facebook Could Be Bad for You.
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Surprise! Quitting Facebook Could Be Bad for You.

By Kristin Houser

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned Absolutely Nothing From the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
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With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned Absolutely Nothing From the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

By Victor Tangermann