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Meta ramps up AI labeling |
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Tuesday it is ramping up its capability to detect and label images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad. | © AP Photo/Thibault Camus |
Meta said it is working with other companies to develop common standards for identifying the use of AI to help the platform label images that come from other sources, such as Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, Midjourney and Shutterstock. The images will be detected by including metadata in images created with certain AI tools. "We're building this capability now, and in the coming months we'll start applying labels in all languages supported by each app. We're taking this approach through the next year, during which a number of important elections are taking place around the world," Meta's president of global affairs Nick Clegg said in the blog post. Those labels will be applied across Meta's platforms, which also include Threads, the text-based platform that launched in July. Clegg said similar labeling efforts for AI tools that generate audio and video at the same scale have not yet begun. As the industry "works toward this capability," Clegg said Meta will add a feature for people to disclose when they share AI-generated video or audio so the company can add a label to it. For AI-generated or altered images, video or audio that "creates a particularly high risk of materially deceiving the public on a matter of importance," Meta may add a "more prominent label if appropriate" to provide users with additional information and context, he said. Read more in a report at TheHill.com. |
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The Biden administration will halt enrollment in a program that provides broadband discounts to millions of Americans as it runs low on funds and prepares to wind down in the coming months. The Affordable Connectivity Program will stop accepting new enrollments at 11:59 p.m. ET Wednesday, a White House spokesperson confirmed. The cutoff comes as the program's remaining funding is to set to run out in May. The Biden administration, … |
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) pushed back on Tesla founder Elon Musk's criticism of the recently unveiled bipartisan border deal, saying the tech billionaire should keep his focus on recalled Tesla vehicles instead of the legislation. Lankford doubled down on the proposed bill Monday on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper,” explaining that Musk’s description of the bill was inaccurate and that it does not include text … |
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Google is calling on the government to provide more action when it comes to combatting spyware sales and the misuse of surveillance software, according to a new report. "The harm is not hypothetical,” Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said Tuesday in its report, which is titled "Buying Spying,” adding that “spyware vendors point to their tools' legitimate use in law enforcement and counterterrorism.” … |
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Bluesky opens to the public |
Bluesky, a microblogging site created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is now allowing anyone to join, ditching its previous invite-only format, TechCrunch reported. |
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| DocuSign to lay off 400 employees |
DocuSign plans to lay off 400 employees, or about 6 percent of its workforce, as tech companies continue to make widespread cuts, Reuters reported. |
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- The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on "Artificial Intelligence and Health Care: Promises and Pitfalls" on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET.
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LONDON (AP) — One of the enduring mysteries of the cryptocurrency industry took center stage Tuesday in a London court where a trial could finally settle the debate over the identity of bitcoin’s founder. Australian computer scientist Craig Wright entered the witness box at the High Court and … |
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A three-judge panel upheld a lower court ruling that deemed former President Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution as a former executive, blocking … Read more |
| A man who served as a State Department security officer was arrested Tuesday by the FBI on four charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the … Read more |
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