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☆ Meta said it's been using your public Instagram photos and Facebook posts to train its AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta said on Thursday that it's been using public Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta has been using public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new artificial intelligence assistant, a spokesperson said. Meta has some measures to exclude private details from public datasets used by the AI, Clegg told Reuters. Meta opened its virtual assistant, Meta AI, to the public on Wednesday in a Beta release. Both of those models were trained using Instagram and Facebook posts, an unnamed Meta spokesperson told Reuters.

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☆ Meta's news partnership head Campbell Brown is leaving the company
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Campbell Brown speaks onstage at the Peabody-Facebook Futures Of Media Awards at Hotel Eventi on May 19, 2017 in New York City. Meta said Campbell Brown, the company's top executive responsible for handling partnerships with news publishers, is leaving the company after seven years. Republican lawmakers have alleged that Meta unfairly censors conservative articles and voices. The company said the law is "based on the incorrect premise that Meta benefits unfairly from news content shared on our platforms." Facebook News debuted in 2019 as a way for users to stay current with important news in a dedicated space.

Persons: Campbell Brown, Meta, Brown, Axios, Meta's Nick Clegg Organizations: Peabody, NBC News, CNN, Meta, Facebook Locations: Eventi, New York City, Canada, France, Germany

☆ Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMENLO PARK, California, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O) used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers' privacy, the company's top policy executive told Reuters in an interview. "We've tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy preponderance of personal information," Clegg said, adding that the "vast majority" of the data used by Meta for training was publicly available. He cited LinkedIn as an example of a website whose content Meta deliberately chose not to use because of privacy concerns. Meta AI was the most significant product among the company's first consumer-facing AI tools unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday at Meta's annual products conference, Connect. The public Facebook and Instagram posts that were used to train Meta AI included both text and photos, Clegg said.

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☆ Meta's new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

He cited LinkedIn as an example of a website whose content Meta deliberately chose not to use because of privacy concerns. Meta AI was the most significant product among the company's first consumer-facing AI tools unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday at Meta's annual products conference, Connect. The public Facebook and Instagram posts that were used to train Meta AI included both text and photos, Clegg said. Interactions with Meta AI may also be used to improve the features going forward, the spokesperson said. Clegg said Meta imposed safety restrictions on what content the Meta AI tool could generate, like a ban on the creation of photo-realistic images of public figures.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Carlos Barria, Meta, Global Affairs Nick Clegg, We've, Clegg, Bing, Mickey Mouse, Katie Paul, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis, Lincoln Organizations: Meta, REUTERS, MENLO, Facebook, Reuters, Global Affairs, Google, Microsoft's, Thomson Locations: Menlo Park , California, U.S, , California

☆ Everybody recognizes the U.S. is in the lead when it comes to AI, says Meta's Nick Clegg
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEverybody recognizes the U.S. is in the lead when it comes to AI, says Meta's Nick CleggNick Clegg, Meta Global Affairs president, and CNBC's Eamon Javers join 'Fast Money' to talk today's Capitol Hill hearing concerning AI.

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☆ Large US tech companies face new EU regulations
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Although the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) passed last year, companies have had until now to prepare for its enforcement. Friday marks the arrival of a key compliance deadline — after which tech platforms with more than 45 million EU users will have to meet the obligations laid out in the law. But the list finalized in April includes the most powerful tech companies in the world, and, for those firms, violations can be expensive. The DSA permits EU officials to issue fines worth up to 6% of a very large platform’s global annual revenue. In a statement, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNN the DSA deadline “is an important milestone in the fight against illegal content online.

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☆ Facebook took down COVID-19 posts after pressure from the Biden administration. 'I can't see Mark in a million years being comfortable with that,' an exec said in newly uncovered emails.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The White House pressured Facebook to remove posts about COVID-19 , WSJ reported. But execs internally questioned and disagreed with the directives, according to newly uncovered emails. The White House lambasted Facebook in 2021 for its handling of COVID-19 misinformation, with Biden saying Facebook was "killing people." The Journal's report news as the House Judiciary Committee investigates the Biden administration's attempts to address misinformation on social media platforms. The internal Facebook emails were obtained by the Republican-led committee, the WSJ reported.

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☆ New research on Facebook shows the algorithm isn't entirely to blame for political polarization
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

For all the blame Facebook has received for fostering extreme political polarization on its ubiquitous apps, new research suggests that the problem may not strictly be a function of the algorithm. Doing so during the three-month period, "did not significantly alter levels of issue polarization, affective polarization, political knowledge, or other key attitudes," the authors wrote. When altering the kind of content these Facebook users were receiving to presumably make it more diverse, they found that the change didn't alter users' views. "However, the data clearly indicate that Facebook users are much more likely to see content from like-minded sources than they are to see content from cross-cutting sources." The polarization problem exists on Facebook, the researchers all agree, but the question is whether the algorithm is intensifying the matter.

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☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Meta's Nick Clegg
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Meta's Nick CleggNick Clegg, Meta President of Global Affairs, jons 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk today's White House meeting on A.I. regulation.

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☆ Meta's Nick Clegg talks White House A.I. regulation meeting
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMeta's Nick Clegg talks White House A.I. regulation meetingNick Clegg, Meta President of Global Affairs, jons 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk today's White House meeting on A.I. regulation.

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☆ White House secures voluntary pledges from Microsoft, Google to ensure A.I. tools are secure
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with AI experts and researchers at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, June 20, 2023. The seven companies each agreed Friday to a set of voluntary commitments in developing AI technology. Top tech companies and investors are pumping billions of dollars into the large language models behind so-called generative AI. The latest commitments are part of an effort by President Biden to ensure AI is developed with appropriate safeguards, while not hindering innovation. Vice President Kamala Harris previously hosted AI CEOs and labor and civil liberties experts to weigh in on the challenges that come with AI.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Adam Selipsky, Dario Amodei, Kent Walker, Mustafa Suleyman, Nick Clegg, Brad Smith, Greg Brockman, it's, Kamala Harris Organizations: Google, Microsoft, White, Web, CNBC, YouTube Locations: San Francisco, coders, India

☆ Meta executive Nick Clegg calls AI language models 'quite stupid' as the company announces plans to give away its AI tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, says AI language models are still "quite stupid." The remarks came shortly after Meta announced it was open-sourcing its own AI model. "Hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology," he said, referring to AI language models. The remarks came shortly after Meta announced it was open-sourcing its own AI model, LLaMA 2. Meta announced the news on Wednesday as part of Microsoft's Inspire event.

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☆ US officials worry about ‘chilling effect’ on combating election disinformation after order limiting Biden administration contact with social platforms
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Brian Fung Sean Lyngaas | Brian Fung | Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

The resulting uncertainty, they say, risks slowing the government and social media companies’ ability to respond to election-related disinformation that appears on tech platforms. Last week, the State Department canceled a routine meeting on election security with Facebook, according to a person familiar with the matter. On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray defended the close contacts between the US government and the social media companies. The injunction does contain some exceptions allowing more limited contact between affected agencies and social media companies. “Well, the government doesn’t necessarily have those capabilities to do that back-end work that the social media companies do.

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A Meta spokesperson did not specify, when asked, how many staffers had been cut from its teams working on elections. Instead, Meta said the social media giant had invested $16 billion in technology and teams since 2016 to protect its users. For years, the social media giant has invested heavily in teams of personnel to root out sophisticated and coordinated networks of fake accounts. In addition to its in-house team, Meta and other social media companies rely on tips from academics and other researchers who specialize in monitoring covert disinformation networks. The launch of Threads even as Meta trims its disinformation-focused personnel comes at a turbulent and transformative time for those tasked with writing and implementing rules on social media platforms.

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☆ Meta releases clues and tools on how AI is used on Facebook, Instagram
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —As demand for greater transparency in artificial intelligence mounts, Meta released tools and information Thursday aimed at helping users understand how AI influences what they see on its apps. These describe how Meta selects what content to recommend to users. Meta’s so-called “system cards” cover how the company determines which accounts to present to users as recommended follows on Facebook and Instagram, how the company’s search tools function and how notifications work. Previously, Meta had only offered the ability for users to tell Instagram to show less, not more, Clegg wrote. On both Facebook and Instagram, he added, users will now be able to customize their feeds further by accessing a menu from individual posts.

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☆ Meta warned that its record $1.3 billion fine sets a 'dangerous precedent' when the internet is already 'fracturing under pressure from authoritarian regimes'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta was handed a record $1.3 billion fine by the European Union on Monday. That was over concerns that Facebook data transferred to the US could be used to spy on European citizens. Meta warned that its record $1.3 billion fine "sets a dangerous precedent" related to online freedoms in a statement released Monday. "At a time where the internet is fracturing under pressure from authoritarian regimes, like-minded democracies should work together to promote and defend the idea of the open internet," the statement added. Meta has been given a five-month grace period to stop transferring Facebook users' data to the US.

☆ Meta slapped with record $1.3 billion EU data privacy fine over transfer of Facebook data to US
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The European Data Protection Board announced the fine in a statement Monday, saying it followed an inquiry into Facebook (FB) by the Irish Data Protection Commission, the chief regulator overseeing Meta’s operations in Europe. The fine is the largest ever levied under Europe’s signature data privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Meta has also been ordered to cease the processing of personal data of European users in the United States within six months. Meta’s infringement is “very serious since it concerns transfers that are systematic, repetitive and continuous,” said Andrea Jelinek, chair of the European Data Protection Board. EU and US policymakers were on a “clear path” to resolving this conflict under a new transatlantic Data Privacy Framework.

☆ The funniest joke suggestions for Elon Musk's Twitter CEO successor, from Elizabeth Holmes to Meghan Markle
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk announced Thursday he would be handing over the Twitter CEO role to a woman. But Twitter users have been having fun suggesting several joke candidates. Months after Twitter users voted for Elon Musk to step down as the company's CEO, the billionaire announced Thursday that he'd found someone to takeover the position. Musk tweeted. The Wall Street Journal also reported that Yaccarino is in talks to take over as Twitter CEO.

☆ Meta opens up its Horizon Worlds VR app to teens for the first time, prompting outcries from US lawmakers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Washington CNN —Meta is forging ahead with plans to let teenagers onto its virtual reality app, Horizon Worlds, despite objections from lawmakers and civil society groups that the technology could have possible unintended consequences for mental health. On Tuesday, the social media giant said children as young as 13 in Canada and the United States will gain access to Horizon Worlds for the first time in the coming weeks. Zuckerberg has pushed to spend billions developing VR hardware and software, even as Meta has scaled back significantly in other parts of its business. “Meta is despicably attempting to lure young teens to Horizon Worlds in an attempt to boost its failing platform,” said Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who last month, along with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey, urged Zuckerberg to reconsider letting teens use the app. Lawmakers have previously raised alarms about the impact of some of Meta’s other products, including Instagram, on younger users.

☆ Donald Trump is back on social media, and nobody knows what happens next
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

This illustration photo show the Facebook page of former President Donald Trump on a smartphone screen in Los Angeles, March 17, 2023. On Friday, Donald Trump wrote a message on his Truth Social messaging platform that was reminiscent of the waning days of his presidency, when his public posts got him kicked off Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. In complaining about a potential indictment, Trump warned of "potential death & destruction" should he be charged with a crime. Thus far, Trump has been relatively quiet on the major social media platforms. Rather, he's stuck to daily musings on Truth Social, writing in a post this week that Democrats are "INTERFERING IN OUR ELECTIONS, THEIR NEW FORM OF CHEATING!!"

☆ Trump is back on Facebook just in time to raise money as likely criminal indictment looms overhead
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump has returned to Facebook. On Friday, Trump used the platform to share a 12-second campaign video. Trump had been suspended from Facebook following the January 6 insurrection. Facebook parent company Meta had suspended Trump after the January 6 insurrection, citing his praise of violent rioters that sought to overturn the 2020 election at his behest. Trump has denied having any affair with Daniels and said he did not approve a "hush money" payment.

☆ Donald Trump can access his Facebook and Instagram accounts again
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee's Annual Meeting on January 28, 2023 in Salem, New Hampshire. Former President Donald Trump now has access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts once again, parent company Meta confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. Trump has also not yet shared from his Twitter account after it was reinstated under new owner Elon Musk in November. Trump more recently has gotten his message out through Truth Social, a social media site run by the Trump Media & Technology Group. WATCH: Jan. 6 committee votes to subpoena former President Donald Trump

☆ Facebook’s Trump Gift to Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Meta Platforms Inc. is letting Donald Trump back on its social-media sites, and the question is who is happier: Mr. Trump, or Democrats? Our guess is the latter, as they are eager to see the former President back at the center of Republican politics. Nick Clegg , Meta’s president for global affairs, wrote Wednesday that Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will soon be reinstated. “The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying—the good, the bad and the ugly—so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box,” Mr. Clegg wrote in a blog post.

Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts are being reinstated, the social media giant Meta announced Wednesday — a little more than two years after he was suspended from the platforms over incendiary posts about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., then the minority leader, vowed to “rein in big tech power over our speech” after Facebook announced the length of Trump’s suspension in 2021. Trump’s presidential campaign officially petitioned Facebook to allow Trump back on to the platform this month. “If Facebook wants to have this fight, fine, but the House is leverage, and keeping Trump off Facebook just looks political,” the adviser said.

Jan 25 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said Wednesday it will reinstate former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021. He has 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram, platforms that are key vehicles for political outreach and fundraising. "I worry about Facebook's capacity to understand the real world harm that Trump poses: Facebook has been too slow to act." Whether, and how, Trump will seize upon the opportunity to return to Facebook and Instagram is unclear. He did not indicate if or when he would begin posting on Meta platforms again.

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