Over 600,000 people, including numerous celebrities, have shared a false message claiming to prevent Meta from using their images for AI training. The message said that if users share it, Meta will no longer be able to use their information.According to a report, film stars James McAvoy (known for playing Professor X in X-Men: First…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently commended DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis for his strategic negotiation tactics during Google’s acquisition of the AI research lab in 2014. Speaking at a South Park Commons event, Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook (now Meta) had been in talks to purchase DeepMind before Google secured the deal for over $500 million.“I did…
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas. According to a report by Reuters, the US state has filed a lawsuit against the Facebook-parent accusing it of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent. As per the report, the terms of the settlement mark the…
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that WhatsApp and its parent company Meta have not informed the government of any plans to shut down its services in India. He was replying to a question raised in the Rajya Sabha recently.“[The] Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has shared that WhatsApp or Meta has not…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has removed down 63,000 Instagram accounts based in Nigeria, taking down a widespread sextortion racket . The company announced on that these accounts were engaged in financial sextortion scams, primarily targeting adult men in the United States.The crackdown, which occurred in late May, focused on a network…
Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta rolled out its Meta AI chatbot to WhatsApp, Instagram and other platforms last month. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to be struggling with a basic mathematics question. When asked ‘which is bigger 9.9 or 9.11’, Meta AI on WhatsApp responded ‘9.11 is bigger than 9.9’. On further asking to explain why…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Tuesday took a dim view of Meta’s complaints redressal mechanism and said its functioning was “far worse than a govt department.”It was hearing a plea by a media house against blocking of its Instagram page by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, for alleged copyright violations.“Please…
WhatsApp has told the Delhi High Court that the messaging platform will effectively shut down in India if it is forced to break message encryption. The Meta-owned company said that the end-to-end encryption protects user privacy by ensuring only the sender and recipient can access message content. “As a platform, we are saying, if we…
HONG KONG: Apple said it had removed Meta‘s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese authorities. The apps were removed Friday after Chinese officials cited unspecified national security concerns. Their removal comes amid elevated tensions between the US and China over trade,…
Meta‘s AI-powered image generator consistently fails to create accurate images of interracial couples and friendships, according to a report by The Verge. The tool struggles to generate images for simple prompts such as “Asian man and Caucasian friend” or “Asian man and white wife,” instead of producing pictures of people of the same race, even…
