Mia Sato
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Instagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post (opens the original)
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What happens when platforms tell everyone how to optimize their content? What happens when platforms tell everyone how to optimize their content? Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI “creative assistant” that pulls in data from a user’s Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new assistant,
Is AI pricing your Big Mac? (opens the original)
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Reuters found that McDonald’s is increasingly using AI to set menu prices, including by trying to predict how much customers are willing to pay. Franchisees also told Reuters they’re pressured by McDonald’s to use AI in pricing decisions. More personalized and dynamic pricing is a concern in the AI era. Walmart promised customers it wouldn’t use chatbot conversations and other personal information to set prices; Instacart scrapped an AI pricing plan after public backlash.
YouTube will hunt for AI voice deepfakes that sound like creators. (opens the original)
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YouTube is expanding its likeness detection tool to include not just facial matches, but vocal matches too. At the company’s Made on YouTube event on Wednesday, executives teased the upcoming expansion that will allow creators to monitor potential synthetic soundalikes posted to the platform. The original likeness detection feature started testing with creators and eventually was opened to anyone with a YouTube account — the company has essentially created its own deepfake monitoring and takedow
YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them (opens the original)
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YouTube wants creators to use its own tools to optimize their content to break through. YouTube wants creators to use its own tools to optimize their content to break through. Part of the job of a content creator is to figure out how to get their work in front of the most people. Cracking — or fighting — the algorithm has historically been a frustration for creators, but YouTube is increasingly simply telling creators what they should do. At the annual creator-focused Made on YouTube event, the
Can you forget how you feel about Meta? (opens the original)
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In 2021, as a whistleblower emerged with dramatic allegations that Facebook was harming children, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a rebuttal on Facebook. “We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives,” he wrote in a note to Meta staff, which he reposted publicly. “At the most basic level, I think most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted.” Away from the str
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