Google, Meta, push back on addiction claims in landmark social media trial in the U.S.
@AssociatedPress reports: "Meta lawyer Paul Schmidt spoke of the disagreement within the scientific community over social media addiction, with some researchers believing it doesn’t exist."
What I like most about quote posts is how they made it so you have to click twice in order to Boost now, thus crippling the only recommendation algorithm we've got.
If you like something, but don't want people to see it, Like and do not Boost.
If you like something and think other people might want to see it, both Like and Boost.
If you do not like something, but think other people need to see it, Boost and do not Like.
This message goes out to everyone who likes my post, but hides it from their followers for some reason.
EU-Kommission: Meta muss andere Chatbots auf WhatsApp zulassen
WhatsApp setzt seit einiger Zeit auf einen eigenen Chatbot, der mit Künstlicher Intelligenz gesteuert wird. Die EU-Kommission hat nun den US-Mutterkonzern Meta angewiesen, auch andere KI-Anbieter zuzulassen - sonst drohten Konsequenzen.
Although lots of the replies to this are useful and informative, this seems like the kind of common and basic question where there should just be a resource we can signpost people to, with easy steps and answers to frequently- encountered issues, presented in an order and with language that supports but does not overwhelm interested parties...
“One day after The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster story about Meta’s own dismal findings about teen girls’ mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wondered whether Meta should change how it studies its platforms’ potential harms.
The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.
“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years
We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.
Google und Apple schliessen millionenschwere Vergleiche in den USA, um durch Sammelklagen angestrengte Gerichtsverfahren wegen Abhörens ihrer Kund:Innen durch ihre "Assitants" abzuwenden.
Die Beträge von 68 (Google) bzw. 95 Millionen Dollar (Apple) münzen sich in einige wrnige Dollar pro klagende Person um und tun den Firmen kaum weh.
Wichtig: Die Tatsache des Abhörens ist offenbar unbestritten, sonst gäbe es keine solchen Vergleiche. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-voice-assistant-lawsuit-settlement-68-million/ #Abhören#Google#Meta#Apple#Siri
I just updated the RTA blog post about #Meta with this nugget of info that I had overlooked: they have your #WhatsApp#encryption keys.... 🤦🏼♂️
So they can say "your content is end-to-end-encrypted" until the cows come home, but they can still access it whenever they want! (and they always want to, because they are an #advertising and #AI business, and supplier-of- #surveillance -info-to-the-cops business)
Do you trust Meta with your keys?
One key 'feature' of WhatsApp (and iMessage for that matter) is that they also handle your encryption keys. This undoubtably makes life easier for people (messages can be easily restored/ported to another device) but it also means that ultimately the keys to your encrypted messages are owned by people who you cannot trust (i.e. Meta).
And sure enough in a lawsuit against Meta it has been alledged that Meta actually can see your message content, and they scan it for their advertising and AI business, and for security agencies.
So thousands of programmers have been laid off recently, they can almost all work remotely and we all need to get off US tech as quickly as possible. Seems like the perfect opportunity to fund an open source collaborative suite of products to replace meta, alphabet, microsoft apple and amazon.
Geschäftszahlen der Techkonzerne geprägt vom Thema KI
Drei US-Big-Tech-Konzerne haben ihre Geschäftsbücher geöffnet: Meta, Microsoft und Apple. In allen drei Bilanzen spielt KI eine zentrale Rolle. Von Nils Dampz und Antje Sieb.
Mit Enttäuschung aufgenommene Unternehmens-Bilanzen haben den Anlegern am Donnerstag auf die Stimmung geschlagen. Der DAX ging kräftig in die Knie und beendet den Tag mit Verlusten..
I will be this old man for the rest of my life