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That delicate conversation about your wife, or a call for help about your daughter — or the weird pocket dial that recorded a conversation with your friend — are all less likely to accidentally end up on the public feed of Meta’s AI app.Mark Zuckerberg’s company is now giving users a…
Early-career engineers should beware of specializing too soon, said Philip Su, a former engineer at Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI, and founder of podcast player Superphonic.”That, I think, is a tricky decision depending on how well the person knows themselves,” Su said on a recent episode of “The Developing Dev” podcast…
What’s in a smile? If you’re training Meta’s virtual reality avatars, it could be $50 an hour.The tech giant is recruiting adults through data collection and labelling company Appen to spend hours in front of cameras and sensors to help “enhance the virtual reality of the future.”Meta’s avatars have come…
How do you make an AI model fun but safe? Leaked training documents from Scale AI, a major data-labeling contractor, provide a window into how Meta tries to thread that needle.Business Insider obtained four internal Scale AI training documents for contractors who were tasked with testing and giving feedback on…
Shareholder activists say Meta isn’t doing enough to combat hate speech.The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Jewish investor network JLens are calling on Meta investors to back a new proposal demanding greater transparency into how the company handles antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-disability hate speech.The campaign comes amid rising concern over Meta’s…
In Louisiana, a battle is heating up over who will pay for the new power plants needed to serve the $10 billion data center Meta is building in the state’s northeastern corner.Meta announced in December the 2,000-acre Richland Parish data center campus, which is expected to be completed in 2030.…
