The company’s challenge is more of a cultural one. The more you have, the more you have to protect. It’s hard to get such a ...

The emerging "Intention Economy" leverages AI to forecast and influence decisions, commodifying human motivations. Cambridge researchers warn of ethical risks, including manipulation and threats to ...

I t feels like every day we get a fresh reason to hate generative AI, and today is no exception. Recently, Meta unveiled some ...

Meta has nuked a bunch of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI characters ...

By thinking about recommendation as a generative problem, you can tackle it from new angles and use LLMs to better understand ...

Quickly, people began criticizing them. Some compared the AI-powered personas to the Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror, while others used it as proof of the “dead internet theory,” a conspiracy ...

Meta quickly pulled the plug on AI bot accounts it had tested on Facebook and Instagram after users attacked the idea ...

Rehan Shiekh, Microsoft’s former vice president of silicon manufacturing and engineering, has left to join Google Cloud to ...

Many of the AI bots haven’t shared new content on their grid since early 2024, and it’s unclear how (or if) users have been ...

Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels ...

Earlier this week, Connor Hayes, a Meta exec, told Financial Times that the platform was planning on rolling out “hundreds and thousands” of AI-generated characters that would “exist on our platforms, ...

The company has its own AI model, Llama, has added "Meta AI" to all of its big products—whether you like it or not (you don't ...