meta platforms
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You Can Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across Other Sites and Apps
It’s tough to use the internet without being tracked, but it’s not impossible. Companies are starting to hand us tools to help, such as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature and DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection. Even Meta, the company that makes its living on data collection, is now offering you a way to control how Instagram…
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The 12 Worst Examples of Meta’s Dystopian AI Influencers
Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, Roy Choi, and Charli D’Amelio all throw their hats in the ring to put faces to Meta’s chatbots on Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.
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Meta Quest 3 Shows Us the Metaverse Dream isn’t Dead Yet
Watching the Meta Quest 3 being announced by Meta made me realise something – the hardware available for virtual, augmented and mixed reality is finally catching up with the big idea pitches everyone had about this concept called the “metaverse” a couple of years ago. Seeing this $799 headset, part of a product line formerly…
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A Bender-Style Sassy Chatbot and Other Goofy AI Personas May Come to Facebook and Instagram
Meta is preparing to unleash a small army of talkative AI chatbots onto Facebook and Instagram in a bid to attract younger users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The chatbots will reportedly embody various “personas,” ranging from sassy shit-talkers to extraterrestrial aliens. But back-talking language models are just the start.…