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NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.

Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

abc.net.au

Just seen a post on threads where someone was asking for recommendations for electrolyte drinks for their POTS, got a bunch of great recommendations, then went "Tysm for all the recommendations! I also asked AI, don't hate me" No actually I do fucking hate you

Please push back against this as hard as you can. Many, including myself, depend on Twitch to survive, remain independent, and is often the only job we can have. There is no where else to really go. If you are in the UK however, and there is no full opt out. File a GDPR report, as it’s a violation.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · last wk.

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

Remember their slogan! "Play has no limits" except for the constant new limits that are imposed. Also that "This is for the players" except they never listen to criticism. Anyway here's your notice of termination so clear your desk by the end of the day, CEO needs a new mega-yacht & holiday home

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last wk.

Sony vows to press on with discless plans, saying "digitalization is progressing" across all media despite heavy protest from players www.eurogamer.net/sony-physica...

⚠️💙 If you have donations to spare! 💙⚠️ There's a grove of ancient cottonwood trees in SE Arizona that CBP is trying to build the wall through A group of activists is working to make sure the contractors are held accountable and don't harm the cultural site ⬇️ ♡ givebutter.com/stop-destruc...

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If anyone uses Stripe to get payments, go to your Settings (Gear icon) > Plans and Fees > Radar (View plan details) > View Plans > Scroll to "More Options" and select "Lite" I want none of the money I earn to go to AI if I can help it.

💜 Noz 💜 Bust-up Commission Slots Open!@nozdraws.art · last wk.

nice, now Stripe is auto-opting people into a nickel charge per transaction for "AI-enhanced" protection shit they never asked for you can change it back to their free "Lite" version, but the fact that it's opt-out by default is so fucking annoying

Speaking from experience, panic attacks are excellent at mimicking the signs of a heart attack, which easily causes further panic (particularly if there’s no clear anxiety trigger). Having someone present - all the better someone who can point out the difference in symptoms - can ease these fears. 💙

Rethink Mental Illness@rethinkcharity.bsky.social · last wk.

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This is NOT about preservation. They are only doing this to harvest pre 2020's books to use for more training data. They have chosen this method that DESTROYS the book on purpose, because it is faster and cheaper. They know time is limited before society and the bubble catches up with them.

A picture of a tweet showing a woman preserving a book by taking pictures of it in a special picture rig that does not harm the book.

Internet Archive 

At the internet Archive, this is how to digitize a book.

We never Destroy a book by cutting off its binding.
Instead, we digitize it the hard way -- one page at a time.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

it shows to me how many streamers lack conviction in their anti-AI stance when a popular enough game comes along like palworld During development the CEO was posting gushing about gen-ai The studio released & still sell a game about being an "AI artist" but nah, funny animal game right?