How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones. Dishonest!
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search | WIRED wired.com
I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think | WIRED wired.com
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women wired.com
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School wired.com
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO wired.com
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NEW: “Anti-tech extremism” is now actively being monitored by US law enforcement as frustration over AI and data centers percolate across the country, according to records obtained by @wired.com. @drboguslaw.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA www.wired.com/story/us-…
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NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wir…
NEW: Meta’s AI strategy is ripping the company to shreds — and the tea is piping hot! Among the many scoops in this story, someone interrupted an internal Meta call this week to describe a company exec as “a piece of shit.”
I wish I disagreed with @stevenlevy.bsky.social but this column is totally right: People might hate AI, but yes, they will totally use Google’s new search. (To the detriment of many, including publishers.)
Can AI do fact-checking? We asked an intrepid @wired.com fact checker to fact-check the LLMs: "According to my research, AI is even more wrong than people might think."
Meta is making more money than ever. Meanwhile, company employees are miserable. "Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives."
SpaceX, the largest IPO of all time, encompasses Grok… a product that *still* generates non-consensual, explicit images and videos of women according to a new @wired.com investigation:
NEW: Alpha School is rapidly expanding across the U.S., promising AI-enabled education that teaches kids in two hours a day. Turns out, its $65,000-a-year location in NYC isn't even a *school* because New York State denied its application. One of several insane revelations in …
"It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to." (The only acceptable response to both accusations, to be clear, is "no.")
NEW: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth sent out a lengthy internal memo today, acknowledging that the company did an "atrocious" job rolling out its new AI division -- and promising to rekindle internal culture. How? Snacks, for one.
"We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities in the world. People are going to die because of this pollution."
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