internet culture
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TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out
Could this be the beginning of the end?
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Taylor Swift AI Porn Forces X to Finally Moderate Its Content
Elon Musk’s social media platform is blocking searches related to “Taylor Swift” after AI porn created to resemble the artist went viral.
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Sam Altman’s Weird Eyeball Scanning Crypto Tech Comes to Minecraft
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency venture, is now integrating its verification services into popular apps such as Reddit, Discord, Shopify, Mercado Libre, Telegram, and Minecraft. The move is part of Altman’s World ID 2.0, which describes itself as “a human passport for the internet.” “Applications can now let you verify existing accounts to apply a verification…
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Meta and X Are Destroying Their Apps With Paid Verification
On Monday, Instagram announced it’s testing a feed that only shows posts from verified accounts. This new way for “businesses and creators to get discovered” is part of a broader push across the social media industry, where the apps are rolling out the blue-checked carpet to encourage people to pay for a boost in the…