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Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed (opens the original)
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In early August, OpenAI hosted dozens of lifestyle creators at an upstate New York resort for a weekend they called Summer Club. There was beekeeping. There were farm-to-table dinners. And in between, there were sessions on how to use ChatGPT. The ensuing backlash was swift, especially against the female influencers. But the money pouring into AI marketing goes far beyond a luxury brand trip. Tech billionaires and super PACs are spending millions to quietly flood your social media feeds. Some ha
Why AI sounds so much like religion (opens the original)
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For years, the debate about AI was mostly about what it could do – whether it could write, make convincing art, or beat us at our own games. The questions now are older and harder. What makes us human? How do we find meaning? If a machine can do more of the things we thought made humans special, where does that leave us? These aren’t new questions, but rapid advances in AI have made them feel a lot more urgent. Even Pope Leo XIV chose artificial intelligence as the subject of his first encyclica
Opinion: Meta’s huge settlement reveals the necessity and the limits of the courts in changing social media (opens the original)
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Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication and the founding director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University. On Wednesday, eight days into a trial in a federal courtroom in Oakland, Calif., Meta agreed to pay as much as US$17.1-billion to settle claims brought by more than 50 American attorneys-general that it deliberately designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. It represents the largest settlement ever paid by a technology
Meta to face 29 states in landmark youth social media trial (opens the original)
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Meta Platforms META-Q will face a coalition of state attorneys-general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages and force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms. The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, will test Colorado, Kentucky, California and New Jersey’s allegations that Meta designed its platforms to keep young users hooke
Meta, Google, TikTok and others must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction, U.S. court rules (opens the original)
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A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and other social media companies over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court, concluding that the appeal came too early in the
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