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‘IG is a drug’: jury to deliberate as US trial over social media addiction wraps up

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Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social mediaThe first-ever jury trial over the potential harms of social media wrapped up on Thursday. Lawyers for Meta and YouTube have argued their platforms are safe for the vast majority of young people, while lawyers for a […]

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New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots

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Young adults growing up in the attention economy — preparing for adult life, with social media and chatbots competing for their attention — can easily fall into unhealthy relationships with digital platforms. But what if chatbots weren’t mere distractions from real life? Could they be designed humanely, as moral partners whose digital goal is to

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Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles

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New wave of publishing scams mimic lonely hearts hoaxes of old – swapping promises of true love for the fantasy of literary acclaim. And the wooing process is now fully automatedEight years of dedication were poured into the pages of Angel of Aleppo, Jon Cocks’ debut historical novel. Inspired by his wife’s grandmother, a survivor

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Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook

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Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant’s AI research unitFacebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company’s founders into its AI research division.The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into

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A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety

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Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.

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An Amish Avatar and an A.I. Monk Are Pitching Supplements on Social Media

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Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Increasingly, the influencers are fake.

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Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts

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AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disastersLiverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters.The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the

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AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds

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New research suggests tech behind AI platforms such as ChatGPT makes it easier to perform sophisticated privacy attacksAI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned.In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) – the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT – successfully matched

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