The fate of a bill that could reshape Silicon Valley’s surging artificial intelligence industry could be decided this week, with everyone from big tech to members of Congress jockeying to influence the outcome. Among the hundreds of bills scheduled for funding decisions by the powerful California State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee on Thursday is a controversial … Read more
When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple days to create a version without the safety restrictions that prevent it from spouting hateful jokes, offering instructions for cooking meth, or misbehaving in other ways. A new training technique developed by researchers at the … Read more
Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free. Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the … Read more
New Delhi: Highlighting the rise in manipulated content being targeted at India, two major tech firms — Meta and OpenAI — in separate reports this week said they have taken actions against accounts posting content with the aim to influence public debate on issues, including the general elections in India. OpenAI, the US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company … Read more
Eric Paré’s stunning photograph was given a “Made with AI” tag by Instagram yesterday. Photographers uploading their work to Instagram are finding “Made With AI” tags attached to images that were not computer-generated. The AI label undermines the photographer, suggesting they have somehow contrived the image by using a controversial generative AI program like Midjourney. … Read more
Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the uglier aspects of social media, combating scams and election meddling. They didn’t know each other but both quit in 2019, frustrated at feeling a lack of support from executives. “The work that teams like the … Read more
The photo on the left had a speck of dust removed with Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool. This prompted Meta’s ‘Made With AI’ tag. Instagram’s newly-launched “Made with AI” labels are creating confusion as photographers and content creators are finding their posts slapped with the tags despite using minimal editing or apparently not using AI … Read more
Image by Jordan Drake for PetaPixel Users can now share photos from their Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses directly to their Instagram Story without ever needing to take out their phone. In a blog post published on Tuesday, Meta announced that it had updated it Ray-Ban smart glasses with new hands-free functionality. One of the new … Read more
A majority of US TikTok creators don’t believe the platform will be banned within a year, and most haven’t seen brands they work for shift their marketing budgets away from the app, according to a new survey of people who earn money from posting content on TikTok shared exclusively with WIRED. The findings suggest that … Read more
AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label images. On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI published an … Read more