NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
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Dhruv Mehrotra
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Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs | WIRED wired.com
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members wired.com
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NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ …
NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me tonight, but i am lazy and don't want to stop playing Dota…
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New: Leaked records show how Dialog, the Thiel-linked private club, secretly grades members by wealth and fame, labels their politics, tracks relationships, and uses algorithms to help decide who should meet, who should date, who sits together, and who gets cut w/ @dell.bsky.s…
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