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☆ Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Meta revealed on Tuesday more details about its policies on political ads, including a mandate that advertisers disclose when they use artificial intelligence to alter images and videos in certain political ads. Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, explained the new ad policies in a blog post, characterizing them as "broadly consistent" with how the social networking giant has typically handled advertising rules during previous election cycles. What's different for the upcoming election season, however, is the increasing use of AI technologies by advertisers to create computer-generated visuals and text. Expanding on a previous announcement by Meta in early November, Clegg said that starting next year, Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether they have used AI or related digital editing techniques "to create or alter a political or social issue ad in certain cases." Meta will also block new political, electoral and social issue ads during the final week of the U.S. elections, which Clegg said was consistent with previous years.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Chuck Schumer, Meta, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Critics, Nancy Pelosi, Zuckerberg Organizations: Facebook, Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, Washington , D.C, Meta Locations: Washington ,

☆ Mark Zuckerberg ignored top executives' calls for improved teen wellbeing and vetoed removal of cosmetic surgery filters, lawsuit claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It claims that Mark Zuckerberg ignored global affairs boss Nick Clegg's calls for more investment in teen wellbeing. It also says he vetoed work to ban cosmetic surgery filters that experts said were harmful to mental health. AdvertisementAdvertisementMark Zuckerberg ignored top Meta executives' requests to tackle child safety concerns, according to a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts attorney general. AdvertisementAdvertisementClegg added that its current wellbeing work was "both understaffed and fragmented," according to the complaint. But the suit says that Zuckerberg "ignored Clegg's request for months" while Meta's leadership continued to publicly advocate for the need to invest in wellbeing.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg ignored teen and user safety warnings from Meta executives
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The disclosures highlight Zuckerberg’s sway over decisions at Meta that can affect billions of users. And they also shed light on tensions that have occasionally arisen between Zuckerberg and other Meta officials who have pushed to enhance user well-being. In response to the newly unsealed communications, Meta spokesman Andy Stone said such image filters are commonly used in the industry. “These unreacted documents prove that Mark Zuckerberg is not interested in protecting anyone’s privacy or safety. “Clegg’s comments follow a pattern and practice at Meta where employees repeatedly flagged under-investment in well-being tools, despite having the research,” Qureshi said.

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☆ 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.

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☆ Meta to require disclosures for AI-created, altered political ads
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Meta and Facebook logos are seen in this illustration taken February 15, 2022. Meta, the world's second-biggest platform for digital ads, said in a blog post it would require advertisers to disclose if their altered or created ads portray real people as doing or saying something that they did not, or if they digitally produce a real-looking person that does not exist. Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the biggest digital advertising company, announced the launch of similar image-customizing generative AI ads tools last week and said it planned to keep politics out of its products by blocking a list of "political keywords" from being used as prompts. Lawmakers in the U.S. have been concerned about the use of AI to create content that falsely depicts candidates in political advertisements to influence federal elections, with a slew of new "generative AI" tools making it cheap and easy to create convincing deepfakes. Reporting by Katie Paul, Devika Nair and Shubham Kalia; Editing by Nivedita BhattacharjeeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Nick Clegg, Katie Paul, Devika Nair, Shubham, Nivedita Organizations: Meta, REUTERS, Facebook, Google, Thomson Locations: U.S

☆ Exclusive: Meta bars political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration taken September 28, 2023. Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the biggest digital advertising company, announced the launch of similar image-customizing generative AI ads tools last week. TikTok and Snapchat owner Snap (SNAP.N) both bar political ads, while X, previously known as Twitter, has not rolled out any generative AI advertising tools. Meta's top policy executive, Nick Clegg, said last month that the use of generative AI in political advertising was "clearly an area where we need to update our rules." Earlier, Clegg told Reuters that Meta was blocking its user-facing Meta AI virtual assistant from creating photo-realistic images of public figures.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Meta, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Joe Biden, Katie Paul, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Meta, Housing, Employment, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Services, Google, Reuters, Thomson Locations: New York

☆ Exclusive: Meta to bar political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration taken September 28, 2023. Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the biggest digital advertising company, announced the launch of similar image-customizing generative AI ads tools last week. Snapchat owner Snap (SNAP.N) and TikTok both bar political ads, while X, previously known as Twitter, has not rolled out any generative AI advertising tools. Meta's top policy executive, Nick Clegg, said last month that the use of generative AI in political advertising was "clearly an area where we need to update our rules." Earlier, Clegg told Reuters that Meta was blocking its user-facing Meta AI virtual assistant from creating photo-realistic images of public figures.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Meta, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Joe Biden, Katie Paul, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Meta, Google, Reuters, San, Thomson Locations: United Kingdom, San Francisco

☆ Elon Musk is in the UK for a pivotal summit on AI — here's who's going
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Here's who's goingMajor names in the technology and political world will be there. They range from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose private jet landed in the U.K. late Tuesday, to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. What the summit seeks to addressThe main objective of the U.K. AI summit is to find some level of international coordination when it comes to agreeing some principles on the ethical and responsible development of AI models. The summit is squarely focused on so-called "frontier AI" models — in other words, the advanced large language models, or LLMs, like those developed by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. Loss of control risks refer to a situation in which the AI that humans create could be turned against them.

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☆ The UK is gearing up for a pivotal summit on AI. Here's what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Where it's being heldThe AI summit will be held in Bletchley Park, the historic landmark around 55 miles north of London. What it seeks to addressThe main objective of the U.K. AI summit is to find some level of international coordination when it comes to agreeing some principles on the ethical and responsible development of AI models. The British government wants the AI Summit to serve as a platform to shape the technology's future. They say that, by keeping the summit restricted to only frontier AI models, it is a missed opportunity to encourage contributions from members of the tech community beyond frontier AI. "By focusing only on companies that are currently building frontier models and are leading that development right now, we're also saying no one else can come and build the next generation of frontier models."

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☆ CEO apologizes for Israel remarks after 4 days of backlash and conference dropouts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The founder of tech conference Web Summit apologized for "profound hurt" over his Israel remarks. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe founder of European tech conference Web Summit has apologized for the "profound hurt" caused by his comments criticizing the West's support for Israel, which triggered several high-profile withdrawals from the event. AdvertisementAdvertisementGil Dibner, general partner at Angular Ventures, said it was "a time that calls for moral clarity" after canceling his speaking engagement at Web Summit. Dropouts increased, and within 24 hours the number of Israel-based speakers at Web Summit dropped from at least five to zero, according to Insider analysis. Other speakers lined up for Web Summit include Meta's Nick Clegg, as well as comedian Amy Poehler and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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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.

Persons: Meta, it's, —, Nick Clegg, Clegg, We've, hasn't, Snoop Dogg Organizations: Facebook, Service, Reuters, Meta

☆ 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.

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

☆ 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.

Persons: Meta's Nick Clegg Nick Clegg, CNBC's Eamon Javers Organizations: Meta Global Affairs

☆ 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.

Persons: Meta, Holden Thorp, Science's, Thorp, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Stephan Lewandowsky, Lewandowsky, Susan Li Organizations: Facebook, Nature, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, University of Texas, Meta, University of Bristol Locations: U.S

☆ 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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☆ 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'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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☆ 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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