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Category: Social Media
‘Completely off the rails’: TikTok is scaling back its AI summaries feature after it creates bizarre and inaccurate captions — as if TikTok wasn’t bad enough for misinformation already
TikTok users have been seeing AI summaries with multiple errors (Image credit: Ka Han / Shutterstock) TikTok has been testing […]
‘This is not facial recognition’ — Meta wants to scan kids’ height and bone structure to verify their age
Meta is adding more tools to keep kids protected (Image credit: Meta) New AI tools for verifying ages are being […]
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair? Credit: […]
Facebook is annoying as hell but I’m not sure it’s a public nuisance
(Image credit: Getty Images) Trash on the street, noise, pollution, graffiti, and belligerent dogs: these all might be considered public […]
Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors
In my misspent youth, I once worked a summer job as a waiter at Shoney’s. It is an experience that […]
How I quit social media for a month… and then ended up right back where I started
(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future) As a tech journalist, I’m pretty much always online. With that sometimes comes certain […]
Reddit is closing down its unfiltered r/all page of trending posts, but there is still a way to access it if you know how
Look out for changes coming to your Reddit experience (Image credit: Shutterstock / Poetra.RH) If you’re a Reddit user, you […]
Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them.
But Keller-Sutter likely suspects that Swiss law may also hold the platform liable for the type of defamation that she […]
Older adults are losing patience with scam ads on social media
The National Council on Aging has released new findings showing that online scams tied to social media advertising are widely […]
