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☆ Meta tried to 'build a clone of Snapchat' using data from Onavo, unsealed court documents show
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

An analytics app Meta acquired a decade ago turned into a major source of inspiration for product and business decisions, including its work to "clone" Snapchat. Rosen is Meta's chief information security officer, while Tiger was vice president of engineering until he left Meta in 2022. For several years, Onavo was key to how Meta decided to acquire, launch, and change its products, according to over a dozen court documents unsealed last week in an ongoing lawsuit. After the acquisition, Facebook found through Onavo's data on messaging apps that Snapchat was a top five mobile app and WhatsApp had begun to outpace Facebook Messenger. The company was hailed for its tech that compressed data on mobile phones, allowing apps to run in the background without eating up user data.

Persons: Guy Rosen, Roi Tiger, Rosen, Tiger, Onavo, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Mike Schroepfer, Chris Cox, Javier Olivan, Sandberg, Olivan, Cox, Facebook's, Colin Stretch, WhatsApp, Zuckerberg, Instagram, Snapchat, Stretch, Kali Hays Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Business, Onavo, YouTube, Olivan, TechCrunch Locations: Onavo, Davos, khays@insider.com

☆ The US Copyright Office is set to reveal later this year proposed changes to copyright law over the AI boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The way technology companies scrape and use copyrighted material to train generative AI tools could be in for a significant change. It has also been weighing for months possible changes to US Copyright laws and rules, which make no specific mention of generative AI or related use cases. President Joe Biden's administration has become more outspoken on generative AI. Although generative AI has been around for years, the explosive popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT tool launched in late 2022 led to a greater public understanding of how generative AI models are developed through mass scraping every bit of data on the web. Warring interests and goals have opened up a growing fight between content creators and tech companies building generative AI.

Persons: Joe Biden's, Ben Buchanan, it's, Andreessen Horowitz, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, US, Meta, The New York Times Locations: khays@insider.com

☆ Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook execs to 'figure out' how to track encrypted usage on rival apps like Snap and YouTube, unsealed documents show
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Kali Hays | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Newly unsealed emails reveal that when Meta was still called Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered his executives to find a way to learn how people were using competing apps like Snapchat, even if the information was encrypted. Advertisement"Given how quickly they're growing, it seems important to figure out a new way to get reliable analytics about them," Zuckerberg wrote of Snapchat in the email. The app "doesn't (can't) decrypt data," a Facebook employee noted in an email to Zuckerberg included in a court document. While the existence of Onavo's work to track rival app usage has been reported, details of Meta's actions, the executives involved, and the surrounding communications were unreported. AdvertisementAdvertisers suing Meta said the company failed for years to disclose its use of Onavo technology to intercept rivals' analytics traffic.

Persons: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Javier Olivan, Snapchat, Olivan, Guy Rosen, Rosen, —, Mike Schroepfer, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Facebook, Business, Meta, Wall Street, YouTube, SSL, TechCrunch Locations: California, Onavo, khays@insider.com

☆ Sam Altman tells staff OpenAI investigation will 'soon' close, as employees brace for more surprises
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Inside OpenAI, Sam Altman is still approachable and friendly to staff, even though many of them are realizing how little they know about how the company operates. Altman responded simply that it would be "over soon," supplying staff with no other detail, according to two people who witnessed the exchange. The internal investigation nearing its end was also reported by the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Such a lack of candor with employees is a more recent development for Altman, one of the people familiar noted. Although OpenAI employees are paid well, many workers are increasingly concerned about how much risk they're assuming.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Slack, OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy, Karpathy, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's, Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Jakub Pachoki, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Wall Street, The New York Times, SEC, Fund, Street, Microsoft, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI, Karpathy, khays@insider.com

☆ Layoff angst looms over Meta employees as they face tough performance reviews and ongoing reorgs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A tough annual performance review season at Meta and a newly permanent state of "efficiency" has some workers preparing for the worst. The company's months-long process of evaluating individual employee performance for 2023 is wrapping up this week, with tens of thousands of workers receiving feedback from Meta managers. The company recently told employees that their bonuses would be increased due to the company's financial performance over the last year. Advertisement"Meta has always done a lot of reorgs, moving people around, eliminating teams," a third person familiar with the company said. An employee previously told BI that employees deemed to have subpar performance "will be pushed out, one way or another."

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Meta, Business, Big Tech, Reality Labs Locations: Meta, Instagram, khays@insider.com

☆ Meta aims to reveal and demo Orion, its first true AR glasses, during its fall developer conference
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta plans to show off years of work on new augmented reality glasses during its developer conference this year. While the AR glasses will not be for sale to the public after the reveal, a handful of employees are already experimenting with advanced prototypes, one of the people noted. The AR glasses are a separate product from Meta's better-known Ray-Ban smart glasses and Quest headsets. He posted a photo to Threads earlier this month showing several versions of Meta glasses on his desk. So far, Meta's AR glasses are costly to produce, much less sell at retail.

Persons: what's, Ray, Andrew Bosworth, Mark Zuckerberg, Bosworth, Kali Hays Organizations: Orion, Reality Labs Locations: khays@insider.com

☆ Tech interviewers can't tell when candidates use ChatGPT to cheat in coding rounds, experiment finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One possibility is the coding rounds of the typical tech job interview, where candidates are prompted by interviewers to solve technical problems. So, job candidates can easily use something like ChatGPT to effectively cheat their way to fast solutions, according to a recent experiment conducted by interviewing.io, a popular platform for mock tech interviews and industry recruiting. When coding problems were taken verbatim from LeetCode, job candidates using ChatGPT solved correctly 73% of the time, interviewing.io found. That’s far worse than how tech job candidates fare on their own. Relying on their own abilities, interviewing.io found that job candidates passed coding rounds of interviews 53% of the time.

Persons: interviewing.io, Aline Lerner, ” Lerner, ChatGPT, Lener, Lerner, it’ll, Kali Hays Organizations: Google, Microsoft Locations: ChatGPT, khays@insider.com

☆ The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for deep fakes
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The White House is increasingly aware that the American public needs a way to tell that statements from President Joe Biden and related information are real in the new age of easy-to-use generative artificial intelligence. People in the White House have been looking into AI and generative AI since Joe Biden became president in 2020, but in the last year, the use of generative AI exploded with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Yet, there is no end in sight for more sophisticated new generative AI tools that make it easy for people with little to no technical know-how to create images, videos, and calls that seem authentic while being entirely fake. AdvertisementBuchanan said the aim is to “essentially cryptographically verify” everything that comes from the White House, be it a statement or a video. While last year’s executive order on AI created an AI Safety Institute at the Department of Commerce, which is tasked with creating standards for watermarking content to show provenance, the effort to verify White House communications is separate.

Persons: Joe Biden, Ben Buchanan, Buchanan, it’s, ”, Biden, ” Buchanan, “ We're, Kali Hays Organizations: Big Tech, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Federal Communications Comission, Artificial Intelligence, White, Department of Commerce Locations: Biden’s, khays@insider.com

☆ Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While Dorsey did not specify the number of Block employees laid off on Tuesday, a person familiar with the company said the number was close to 1,000. Dorsey did say that the layoffs focused on Block workers at Cash App, Foundational, and Square. Staffers were told separately that Block would look to reduce head count by about 10%, as BI reported. Google and Amazon made significant cuts to head count, while Meta is slimming down more roundaboutly by eliminating certain job titles and telling affected workers they can reapply. You can read Dorsey's full note to Block staff below:Team,Today our Cash App, Foundational, and Square teams are parting ways with a large number of our teammates.

Persons: Jack Dorsey, Dorsey, Cash, Kali Hays Organizations: Business, Cash, BI, Google, Amazon, Meta, Marketing, Creative Locations: Commerce, khays@insider.com

☆ ByteDance has a new AI model that lets users instantly speak in another person's voice. Researchers admitted the AI can be used for 'fraud.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

China's ByteDance has created a new way for people to immediately change their voice into another person's using generative artificial intelligence technology. People have already this year used AI to impersonate President Joe Biden as the 2024 election nears and pop star Taylor Swift . The output occurs at the speed of livestreaming, with just 124 milliseconds of latency, according to the paper, which noted that AI voice conversion technology thus far has mostly only been effective "offline." It also used open-source code from Meta's Audiodec , which Meta describes as a "plug-and-play benchmark for audio codec applications." They suggested people report illegal usage of voice conversion to the appropriate authorities.

Persons: China's ByteDance, Joe Biden, Taylor Swift, StreamVoice, Meta, Biden, Kali Hays Organizations: Business, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Northwestern University Locations: China, New Hampshire, khays@insider.com

☆ Meta workers brace for more cuts to technical program manager jobs after the role is eliminated at Instagram
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewMeta is expected to broaden its cut of technical program managers beyond the recent elimination of that role at Instagram. The TPM role is poised to be "consolidated" into the PM role in several organizations within Meta, one of the people familiar said, likely impacting hundreds of jobs. By eliminating the TPM role at Instagram, more than twice that many people are ostensibly competing for available PM roles. Meta workers face tougher performance reviewsAlong with cuts to TPM roles at Meta, annual performance reviews are wrapping up, with results to be delivered to employees early next month. The Meta spokesman said the company's approach to low-performance rankings "is not any different than it's been in the past."

Persons: —, TPMs, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, it's, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Business, Facebook, Reality Labs, Meta, Amazon, Google Locations: Instagram, khays@insider.com

☆ Big Tech has long avoided responsibility for online content. Generative AI could end that.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-18 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

For decades, Big Tech companies have avoided responsibility for anything posted on their platforms. Generative AI is about to end this prized legal protection. Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and even Apple have spent the last year rushing to roll out generative AI tools and models to compete with OpenAI. Generative AI models and tools, however, are developed, owned and operated by Big Tech companies. Otherwise, by creating generative AI tools and providing the outputs, Chander sees few ways a tech company will be able to refute its role in generative AI content.

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Read previewThe recent firing and rehiring of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has put his leadership and personality under a microscope. People who have worked closely with Altman told Business Insider the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Advertisement"The thing I loved about OpenAI is you got to be heard," a former employee told BI. Relationship with MicrosoftWhile Altman is approachable, insiders said his obsession with growing the company can make him seem terse, impatient and superior to other "big tech" companies. AdvertisementAre you a Microsoft or OpenAI employee, or someone else with information to share?

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, he's, He's, OpenAI's cofounders, Altman's, Satya Nadella, There's, OpenAI, doesn't, they've, Mira Murati, Sam, that's, Ashley Stewart, Kali Hays, Darius Rafieyan Organizations: Service, Washington Post, Business, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI Locations: astewart@insider.com, khays@insider.com, drafieyan@insider.com

Read previewThe firing and rehiring of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has undone months of effort by Microsoft to avoid antitrust regulators probing its massive investment in the startup. It's tough to keep a huge business partnership like this out of what can be intense scrutiny from antitrust regulators. Nadella agreed to give Altman and Brockman their own research arm at Microsoft, if he couldn't negotiate their return to OpenAI. Another interpretation is that Microsoft is keen to show antitrust regulators that OpenAI is an independent company, and not controlled by the software giant. AdvertisementDo you work for OpenAI or Microsoft, or are you someone with a tip or insight to share?

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Lina Khan, OpenAI, Altman, Satya Nadella, Kevin Scott didn't, Kevin, Satya, Microsoft's, Brad Smith, Frank Shaw, Sam, Nadella, Altman's, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Amy Hood, ChatGPT, doesn't, Kali Hays, Ashley Stewart, Darius Rafieyan Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business, FTC, OpenAI, Activision, Blizzard, Markets, Bloomberg, Chief Locations: OpenAI, khays@insider.com, astewart@insider.com

After the sudden ouster of their CEO, hundreds of OpenAI employees signed an open letter demanding Altman's reinstatement and the resignation of the board. And for at least some of those OpenAI employees, there's relief that they don't actually have to go work for Microsoft. Advertisement"Even though we have a partnership with Microsoft, internally, we have no respect for their talent bar," the current OpenAI employee told BI. Money, the great motivatorBeyond the culture clash between the two companies, there was another important factor at play for OpenAI employees: money. Furious Microsoft employeesSome Microsoft employees, meanwhile, were furious that the company promised to match salaries for hundreds of OpenAI employees.

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☆ OpenAI employees wanted Bret Taylor to join a new board. He's no longer expected to do so, insiders say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted on Friday, igniting chaos inside the company. Amid discussions that the OpenAI board would be remade, Bret Taylor was asked to join. The former Salesforce executive and Twitter board chair is no longer poised to do so. Yet, in another affront to employees, it seems some expected changes to the board are no longer in the works. Now he is no longer set to join the OpenAI board.

Persons: Sam Altman, Bret Taylor, —, Altman, — Emmet Shear, Twitch, Mira Murati —, Elon Musk, Taylor, Greg Brockman, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Ilya Setskever, Setskever, Brockman, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Twitter, Elon, Microsoft, Georgetown Center for Security, Emerging Technology Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired. They're unconvinced and furious.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI 's current independent board has offered two examples of the alleged lack of candor that led them to fire co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, sending the company into chaos. Staff had spent the day expecting to be told of the reinstatement of Altman as CEO. Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board, according to one of the people familiar. One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project. These explanations didn't make sense to employees and were not received well, one of the people familiar said.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Emmett Shear, Mira Murati, Altman, Shear, Sutskever, Sustkever, it's, Satya Nadella, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Setskever, Greg Brockman, Murati, she's, Kali Hays Organizations: Twitch, Business, Staff, Google, OpenAI, Murati, Microsoft, Georgetown Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Twitter Locations: OpenAI's San Francisco, khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Sam Altman kicked off a flood of ❤️ emoji posts from OpenAI executives. Can someone just tell us if he's coming back or not?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sam Altman was forced out as CEO of OpenAI on Friday, in dramatic fashion. One that was more snarky than loving: "if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares." AdvertisementYet, it was the one about the OpenAI team that kicked off our current mystery. Various members of OpenAI staff have liked both tweets. Johnathan Lachman, who heads special projects at OpenAI, retweeted Murati's heart reply to Altman adding "our team spirit is just incredible."

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Mira Murati, emojis, —, he'd, OpenAI, She's, Heart, Greg Brockman, what's, Jason Kwon, Brad Lightcap, Romain Huet, Aditya Ramesh, Johnathan Lachman, Brockman's, hasn't, Ilya Sutskever, Brockman, Vinod Khosla, Matthew McConaughey, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Google, Altman, Twitter Locations: OpenAI, khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Sam Altman's ouster leaves OpenAI, Microsoft employees 'completely shocked,' insiders say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Kali Hays | Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The announcement left OpenAI and Microsoft workers "completely shocked," people inside both companies told Business Insider. Another shock came about an hour later when OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman announced that he had "quit" over Altman's ouster. Perhaps there were signs all was not well when it came to OpenAI's business, one Microsoft employee told BI, which Microsoft has reportedly backed to the tune of at least $10 billion. Are you an OpenAI employee or someone with a tip or insight to share? Are you a Microsoft employee?

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever, He's, OpenAI, Greg Brockman, Brockman, shakeup, Steve Jobs, Satya Nadella, we're, Kali Hays Organizations: Microsoft, Business, OpenAI's San, Apple, OpenAI, Microsoft Ignite, Twitter Locations: OpenAI, OpenAI's San Francisco, Mira, Copilot, khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Meta's Instagram and Facebook are growing faster than TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

During the third quarter, the Facebook app's daily active users grew by 1.5% and monthly active users grew by 1.8%, according to data from Apptopia. Instagram's daily users grew by 1.5% and monthly users grew by 1.6%. In its quarterly report , Meta said Facebook's total number of daily users, including web users, grew by 5%, while monthly users grew by 3%. There is one metric where TikTok still has Facebook and Instagram beat: how long the average user spends on the app. Instagram's average user spends 58 minutes a day on the app, while the average Facebook user spends about 45 minutes.

Persons: TikTok, Mark Zuckerberg, China's Bytedance, Evercore, Meta, Instagram, Adam Mosseri, Zuckerberg, Kali Hays Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Evercore, Twitter Locations: Apptopia, Instagram, SensorTower, TikTok, khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Meta's new way to handle AI-generated political ads basically relies on the honor system. Which will definitely work.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta is asking political advertisers to "self disclose" when they want to run digitally created ads. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta released a new way to fend off political ads that are created or manipulated by generative AI during the 2024 election cycle. Meta also just barred political advertisers from using its own generative AI tools for ads . 2024 is an election year in the US, along with 39 other countries, and generative AI has become wildly popular and powerful over the last year. If it happens to catch an advertiser trying to publish an improperly altered ad without disclosing it, it can also reject the ad.

Persons: —, Meta, you've, Nick Clegg, they've, Clegg, Kali Hays Organizations: Meta, Service, Google, YouTube, Twitter Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Generative AI models need not only a massive quantity of content, but also a large diversity of content," Meta wrote in its comment. But those kinds of deals would provide AI developers with the rights to only a minuscule fraction of the data they need to train their models. And it would be impossible for AI developers to license the rights to other critical categories of works." None of the companies denied using copyrighted material without authorization from rights holders. Instead, they generally argued that putting copyrighted material on the internet makes it "publicly available" and therefore fair game for use.

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Google's Bard, OpenAI's, Meta, OpenAI, Bard, A16z, Vince Gilligan, doesn't, Kali Hays Organizations: US, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, News Corp, Getty Locations: khays@insider.com

☆ Q&A: White House AI advisor says US is 'catching up' to the tech, as Biden's new executive order demands transparency for the world's biggest AI models
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

President Biden just signed an executive order regarding the development and use of AI technology. The broad executive order touches on more than a dozen possible uses of AI and generative AI that already are, or could in the future, directly impact people's lives. The size threshold is so high that currently most available models do not meet the criteria for further transparency called for in Biden's executive order. Although all of the major tech companies earlier this year agreed to adhere to standards of responsibility and training in their AI work. Do you think AI is in a hype cycle, and everybody's overreacting to what it's going to mean?

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☆ Meta's Responsible AI team shrinks amid layoffs and restructuring, even as the company goes all-in on AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta in 2020 officially formed the Responsible AI (RAI) team with about 30 members of staff. Over the last year, the group's numbers have dwindled, according to five people familiar with the company and its AI work. A shrinking of the RAI team comes at a time when AI has become a global phenomenon . The Responsible AI team was restructuredJerome Pesenti, who was vice president of Meta's AI group, including the RAI team, left last summer and founded his own AI company Sizzle AI. Compliance is important work as RAI workers try to keep Meta's AI work in line with upcoming rules and regulations .

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☆ Microsoft's Jaron Lanier says AI advancing without human dignity will 'undermine everything', including reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The future of AI is set to be "spiritually, politically, and economically" corrosive, Lanier said. He noted that people building AI tech should let go of sci-fi wish fulfillment. He noted that, while this year has been the "year of AI," next year the world is going to be "flooded, flooded with AI-generated music." A deluge of generative AI content, from simple search prompts to eerie deepfakes, is now up for broad government regulation. In addition to AI-generated content nixing human connection found through creative works and causing an eventual collapse of the creative economy, Lanier said AI-generated content that can be perfected and customized also undermines peoples' "sense of reality.

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