Reece

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“Consent is really important,” Broussard tells WIRED. “We can connect that to the way that women, queer people, people of color, and minorities get exploited and abused online. Tech companies have never really been sensitive to issues of consent.” www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • WIRED argues the anti-slop backlash is producing real platform changes rather than just complaint threads, with tools and policies to flag AI content spreading.
  • Substack, YouTube and Pinterest have all added detection, labels or user controls, with Substack partnering with the detection firm Pangram.
  • Merriam-Webster and the Macquarie Dictionary named 'slop' word of the year, and one anti-slop Facebook group has nearly 250,000 members.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 183 ↻ 48 ↩ 4 · 10 from the directory shared this · 7d ago

“If a company automatically opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled with even more deepfakes becomes more possible. And that's a reality I’d love to opt out of.” My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/please...

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI wired.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 168 ↻ 35 ↩ 0 · 5 from the directory shared this · 33d ago

Link for verification: about.instagram.com/blog/announc... And article link: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out | WIRED wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Meta's new Muse Image tool lets anyone in the Meta AI app @-mention a public Instagram account and pull that user's photos into a generation.
  • Instagram accounts are opted in by default; the toggle sits under Sharing and reuse in the app's Settings and activity menu.
  • Muse Image was built by Meta's Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang and is rolling out across Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook and Messenger to follow.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 50 ↻ 31 ↩ 5 · 4 from the directory shared this · 38d ago

NEW: I’m living in the dystopian future, so you don’t have to ✨

I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Wired's Reece Rogers spent a week with an iPhone strapped to his forehead, filming household chores as training data for humanoid robots.
  • The footage went to "egocentric data" collectors, a corner of the AI gig economy that Rogers said pays contributors in "pennies."
  • In an NPR interview about the piece, Rogers said he realised he was helping train robots that could one day replace house cleaners and other everyday workers.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 66 ↻ 21 ↩ 2 · 4 from the directory shared this · 18d ago
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Look, if you show off your robots's fingers by having smooth jazz play as they softly curl around a wine glass, turn off a light, unzip a jacket, and gently fondle some grapes, people are gonna think this is a very specific kind of robot www.wired.com/story/the-1x...

The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers wired.com View on Bluesky →

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