Meta removes AI character accounts after users label them as ‘creepy and unnecessary’
Since late 2023, around a dozen artificial intelligence Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their parent company, Meta, quietly existed on the platforms.
What young people wish they’d known about social media
Kids coming of age with social media are forging ahead in a whole new world. And now that they are getting older, they have some advice for their younger peers.
In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank.
More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?
The AI news cycle didn’t slow down much this holiday season. Blink and you’d miss some new development.
And it’s not slowing down now.
Women in AI:
Dr. Rebecca Portnoff is protecting children from harmful deepfakes
TechCrunch interviewed Dr. Rebecca Portnoff, who is vice president of data science at the nonprofit Thorn, which builds tech to protect children from sexual abuse.
AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them
Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are cracking down on a troubling spread of child sexual abuse imagery created through artificial intelligence technology.