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Meta’s AI Chatbot Needs Some Work

Business Insider reported that Meta’s most advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, is repeating election-denying claims and antisemitic stereotypes to users who interact with it. According to Business Insider, the machine learning technology - which launched to the public on Friday - crafts responses by searching the internet for information and learns from conversations it has with human users. On August

Facebook Shifts Resources Away From News To Focus On Creator Economy

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook is reallocating resources from its Facebook News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy, senior executive Campbell Brown told employees in a memo, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Brown, a former journalist who leads Facebook’s global media partnerships, said the company would

Internal Documents Show Tech Giants Pushing Out Competitors

Internal documents from Google and Amazon provided to Politico show new examples of how companies favor their own products over competitors’ - adding ammunition to the push for Congress to toughen antitrust laws, Politico reported. According to Politico, the documents, which include emails, memos and strategy papers, were shared by the House Judicial committee, which obtained them as part of

Instagram’s New Payments Feature Lets Users Buy Products Via DMs

Today, Mark Zuckerberg, Co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, posted on Instagram: “You can now buy products from small businesses and track your order in chat on Instagram in the US. Pay with Meta Pay and checkout in a few taps.” The post includes what appears to be a conversation between a person who wants to buy a surfboard and

Meta Launches Sphere To Verify Citations On Wikipedia

Meta announced that, building on Meta’s AI research and advancements, they have developed the first model capable of automatically scanning hundreds of thousands of citations at once to check whether they truly support the corresponding claims. Volunteers double-check Wikipedia’s footnotes, but, as the site continues to grow, it’s challenging to keep pace with more than the 17,000 new articles added

Meta’s AI Model Translates 200 Languages

Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram) posted news titled: “New AI Model Translates 200 Languages, Making Technology Accessible to More People”. Meta started with two “Takeaways”: Our latest AI model, NLLB-200, can translate 200 different languages and improves the quality of translations across our technologies by an average of 44% NLLB-200 makes current technologies accessible in a wider range

Meta Adds Discord-Like Features To Facebook Groups

Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram) announced that they are testing new ways to quickly access your favorite Facebook Groups and to simplify how they are organized. Meta also introduced channels, which are focused spaces for people to connect in smaller, more casual settings with their communities. Here are some of the features that Meta is adding to Facebook