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☆ A girl murdered in 2006 was just revived as an AI chatbot — and her family had no idea
  + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Jennifer Ann Crecente, a high school girl murdered in 2006, recently reappeared as a chatbot on Character.ai. It had been 18 years since Jennifer Ann, a high school senior and Crecente's only child, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in Austin. Grieving, Crecente had started a nonprofit in her name, working since 2006 to raise awareness for teenage dating violence. Drew CrecenteThe website also listed Jennifer Ann as an "expert in journalism" with expertise in video game news. "This is not quite impersonation in the sense that it seems transparent that it is an AI model," Conitzer said of the chatbot mimicking Jennifer Ann.
Persons: Jennifer Ann Crecente, —, Drew Crecente, Jennifer Ann, Crecente, she'd, I've, he'd, Jennifer Ann's, Brian, Brian Crecente, Character.ai, y3gvAYyHVY, Jennifer Ann chatbot, he's, they're, Cassie Lawrence, Vincent Conitzer, Conitzer, Sue Morris, Dana, they've, Morris, Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas, Shazeer, De Freitas, Winni Wintermeyer, Elon Musk, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Gosling, Andreessen Horowitz, Dominic Perella Organizations: Service, Google, BI, Safety, Institute for, Oxford University, Farber Cancer Institute, Washington, Financial Times, Business Locations: Character.ai, Austin, San Francisco, Character.AI, Boston
☆ Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, is destined to become a boring playground for brands
  + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Nathan Mcalone | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, has surged to over 100 million users, riding a hype wave. Meta's vision of a "positive" environment will be better for brands than humans. Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, has surged to over 100 million users in less than a week, an eye-popping figure that shows the sheer size of the hype wave it's riding. But the app has a fatal flaw that will ultimately doom it to mediocrity: It's going to be boring. And that means despite the early outburst of enthusiasm, Threads — like Instagram — might end up being better for brands than for humans.
Persons: Instagram, hasn't, Adam Mosseri, Smith Organizations: Twitter, Meta Locations: Ukraine, blocklists
☆ Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, has a fatal flaw: It's destined to be boring
  + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Nathan Mcalone | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, has surged to over 100 million users, riding a hype wave. But the new "conversation" platform has a fatal flaw: It's going to be boring. Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, has surged to over 100 million users in less than a week, an eye-popping figure that shows the sheer size of the hype wave it's riding. But the app has a fatal flaw that will ultimately doom it to mediocrity: It's going to be boring. And that means despite the early outburst of enthusiasm, Threads — like Instagram — might end up being better for brands than for humans.
Persons: Instagram, hasn't, Adam Mosseri, Smith Organizations: Twitter, Meta Locations: Ukraine, blocklists
☆ Fact Check-No deal between DuckDuckGo and Microsoft to track users online
  + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
Independent experts say that DuckDuckGo blocks known tracking scripts from loading to prevent vulnerable personal identifiers from being exposed, including Microsoft-owned scripts. A separate partnership with Microsoft for advertising on DuckDuckGo’s search results page is limited to ad placements, not tracking users or building profiles, a DuckDuckGo spokesperson said. Users sharing the headline, “Google Lite: DuckDuckGo Signs Secret Deal with Bill Gates to Track Users Online” in April 2023 can be seen (here) and (here). We’re glad this is no longer the case,” the company said in a statement (here)DuckDuckGo’s privacy policy on tracking users can be seen (here). Whether browser privacy protections ever permit user tracking is beyond the scope of this fact check.
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