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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (69+ words) Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at…...
Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred
2+ week, 4+ day ago (45+ words) SvD: Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:25 AM ET, March…...
Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (70+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests" " Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has become a top target for…...
A Google executive says users increasingly want “contextual answers and summaries”, but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides “10 blue links”
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (70+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Elissa Welle / The Verge: A Google executive says users increasingly want "contextual answers and summaries, but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides "10 blue links" " When asked about a new lawsuit over AI Overviews, Google…...
Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (211+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired: Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content" " As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard…...
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (242+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam" " "The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much…...