#Meta retrage o funcție AI controversată de pe 📸#Instagram, după reacțiile utilizatorilor.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5oWu

#Știri

Two days ago.

Forbes: Meta AI Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming Linked To Rare Bacteria In City’s Water System https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2026/07/09/meta-ai-data-center-linked-to-rare-bacteria-in-citys-water-system/ @forbes #Meta #datacenters

The negative backlash over Meta's new feature that allowed anyone to use someone's personal photos and likeness to generate AI content without even notifying them (which had automatically opted in all public Instagram accounts of anyone over 18) was so overwhelming that they are removing it just a few days after it was introduced.

Sure, sneaky practices to normalise AI slop and the use of people's data without explicit consent aren't disappearing overnight, but this is a win regardless. It's also a reminder that "it's the future, it's inevitable, we should embrace it" is plain false.

Nobody, even those who made AI Ghibli avatars or generate 2 sentence response emails through ChatGPT not knowing (or caring) about all the negatives, wants their images, and the faces of themselves and their family to be fair game and their privacy to be violated. Maliciousness on the internet is not a new thing, but features like that give bad actors new tools to spread false info, create revenge porn, discredit, humiliate and target anyone, especially women and marginalised groups. How we react to them sets a precedent for the future.

https://deadline.com/2026/07/meta-removes-muse-image-ai-feature-backlash-1236979605/

#Meta #MetaAI #Instagram #AI #Privacy #OnlineSafety

Meta appeals jury verdict in social media addiction lawsuit | AP News https://apnews.com/article/meta-verdict-appeal-social-media-addiction-f2fc62210b02f1945bfd416f5554dd5c #socialmedia #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Addiction #Youth

#Meta face apel la verdictul prin care compania a fost găsită vinovată pentru dependența de rețelele sociale în rândul tinerilor.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5oQD

#Știri

Social censure and shame are WAY better at affecting what people do than laws/regulations are. If we want people to stop using consumer surveillance tech, the strategy to use isn't regulation (though pass the laws too, I guess), it's hating the shit out of anyone who does use it. People will not use that stuff if doing so elicits reactions that make them ashamed to show their faces in public.

"I saw all these comments about if you wear those glasses you're basically a predator or a creep, and I was like, 'oh, maybe it's not a good idea to have those,'" he told Engadget. But he says he understands why people have concerns. "I didn't really think that through all the way ... there are a lot of times where it's not appropriate to wear cameras on your face. And even though I would have no intention of do[ing] anything creepy with them, it didn't even occur to me [that] other people just assume that automatically."

Read More: https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the-meta-glasses-backlash-is-changing-how-or-if-people-use-them/

https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the-meta-glasses-backlash-is-changing-how-or-if-people-use-them/

#Privacy #Surveillance #Tech #Meta

Meta Removes AI Image Generation Feature That Used Public Instagram Posts Following User Backlash https://petapixel.com/2026/07/10/meta-removes-ai-image-generation-feature-that-used-public-instagram-posts-following-user-backlash/ #artificialintelligence #aiimagegenerator #photoediting #metaimages #instagram #museimage #Industry #backlash #aiimage #privacy #metaai #genai #News #meta #ai

#meta #instagram #ai #deepfake

https://mastodon.social/@verge/116898398585838581

The worst company

I would not let any of these icons near my devices. You could write a book about all the bad decisions this company made. Actually, somebody already did.

Just a few headlines from last week:

Meta announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence image generator that allows anyone to create AI images based on your Instagram photos.

EU threatens Meta with fines over 'addictive' Facebook and Instagram

https://vowe.net/2026/07/10/the-worst-company/

#meta

#Instagram #Google #Facebook #Meta #Threads #X #Twitter

A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Connecting The Meta Privacy Dots
#Meta #AI #Privacy

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/07/09/connecting-the-meta-privacy-dots/

🇮🇱 Me af #meta #humor #autism

CNBC: Teen social media bans miss a key part of the puzzle: AI chatbots https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/tech-download-social-media-bans-ai-chatbots.html

Meta found to breach EU laws with ‘addictive’ Instagram, Facebook designs https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/meta-instagram-facebook-addictive-design-breach-eu-laws.html @CNBC #socialmedia #Meta #Facebook #instagram #bots

#Facebook și Instragram creează dependență, prin mecanisme precum scrollul infinit, autoplay și notificări push, a constatat #ComisiaEuropeană (@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu) într-un raport preliminar. Cere de la compania #Meta să modifice interfețele, în caz contrar riscă o amendă de până la 6% din cifra de afaceri anuală.

🔗 https://biziday.ro/?p=363150

#Știri #UE #UniuneaEuropeană

The complete dismantling of Meta would offer unambiguous, far reaching benefits for all of humanity.

#Meta #MarkZuckerberg #SocialMedia #BillionairesAreParasites #CorporateParasites

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New York Post @nypost - Jul 7 Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case - a sum equal to tech giant's valuation trib.al/ErF1SrX Photo of Mark Zuckerberg. Medium shot of him standing in what seems to be a hallway. Behind him are people with cameras taking pictures.

🤖 KI-Briefing — 10.07.2026

1. Künstliche Intelligenz prägt zunehmend nicht-technische Jobtitel | heise online
Künstliche Intelligenz fließt immer mehr in nicht-technische Berufsbilder und Berufsbezeichnungen rein, wie aus einer Analyse des Jobportals Indeed hervorgeht. Demnach hat der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt...

2. Arbeitsmarkt und Künstliche Intelligenz: Die KI ist da, der Produktivitätsschub noch nicht
Und selbst Menschen, die keine Programmierkenntnisse haben, können mittlerweile einfache Software entwickeln. Viele Tätigkeiten, die früher mal Stunden oder Tage in Anspruch genommen oder Fachwisse...

3. Meta Muse Image und Muse Video: Wenn Sie einen öffentlichen Instagram-Account haben, müssen Sie jetzt handeln
Meta will endlich zu OpenAI und Google aufschließen. Jedenfalls, was die Möglichkeiten angeht, mit seiner künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) Bilder und Videos zu erzeugen, zu verändern und zu verbessern.

4. Frankfurt baut KI-Kompetenzzentrum auf – Chatbot beantwortet 500 Themen
Die Stadt Frankfurt richtet eine zentrale Stelle für Künstliche Intelligenz ein. Bereits jetzt arbeiten Chatbots in der Verwaltung, Kameras zählen Museumsbesuche...

Listening to an investment manager presentation today: “If Meta builds their $10 billion data centre in Alberta, you can bet we’ll all be paying higher electricity prices. It’s not good.” #Meta #abpoli #electricity

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/116891848359608886

"According to the SF Gate, Cupriavidus gilardii is a naturally occurring bacteria found in soil and groundwater. Infection is extremely rare, but it can cause lung and blood infections, sepsis and death, including in the case of a 12-year-old American girl with a bone marrow condition who died in 2010 after contracting the bacteria while vacationing in Europe."
Check out for more: https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2026/07/rare-bacteria-in-water-traced-to-ai-data-center-construction-project.html

#bacteria #Cupriavidus_gilardii #health #Meta #dataCentres #AI

Your public Instagram photo is now raw material for anyone's AI. Meta's Muse Image remixes public profiles into new images with no consent and no notice. Public Citizen calls it an egregious invasion of privacy and wants Congress to require opt-in first.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

Your public Instagram photo is now raw material for anyone's AI. Meta's Muse Image remixes public profiles into new images with no consent and no notice. Public Citizen calls it an egregious invasion of privacy and wants Congress to require opt-in first.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

Meta's new Muse Image lets anyone tag a public Instagram account and turn its photos into AI images, no notice to you, opted in by default. Opting out only stops future ones. Block it: Instagram > Sharing and reuse > turn off AI content, or go private.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

@jpaskaruk I 100% agree with your sentiment, feeling very annoyed at all the people who didn't leave those platforms, but should have. But, alas, Meta has pulled a "Coup de Grâce" on everyone: whomever leaves can be impersonated behind their backs with AI. Meta literally patented it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2

So by keeping one's account there, perhaps one will have some protection from the possible impersonation. Like a punishment for leaving is to potentially be impersonated with AI. They might also impersonate people, even if they stay (just do it behind their backs, in a way that will never get back to the person impersonated).

Impersonation can be done either way (whether one leaves or not), so if one thinks about it, it's pretty much pointless whether one leaves or not - Meta has already "captured one's soul", as it were, which effectively can never leave the platform.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #chatControl

Me watching people freak out about the latest Zuckerberg shenanigans after leaving every #Meta platform in 2016 and watching everyone else stay, and knowing that a good half of the people doing the freaking out are still there right now.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and whatever else they've swallowed, if you're still there, you are why today happened.

Give yourself a good, hard pat on the back of the head.

Alt...

Me, a bearded GenX Canadian sitting outside his house on this hot July day, looking passive and bored and terminally disappointed.

Are you paying attention, Canada? The location is not a coincidence.

"The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant being developed by a consortium that includes Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Ltd."

AP: Meta plans billions for first AI data center in Canada, largest outside the US https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-data-center-canada-922a7d15ab730ec53b934269fc00a0fa @AssociatedPress #Meta #datacenters

RT @finkd: (1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

mehr auf Arint.info

#API #Meta #arint_info

https://x.com/finkd/status/2075218444056707458#m

"Chatkontrolle": Scan-Erlaubnis nimmt Hürde im EU-Parlament

Onlinedienste könnten bald wieder in privaten Chats nach Hinweisen auf Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern suchen dürfen. Das EU-Parlament billigte grundsätzlich eine befristete Ausnahme von europäischen Datenschutzregeln. Von Kathrin Schmid.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/chatkontrolle-eu-104.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Brüssel #Chats #META #Datenschutz

US states seek $1.4 trillion from Meta

Could somebody point me to the section in the US Constitution that codifies my inalienable right to slap a person’s #Meta glasses right off their fat dumb face?

#privacy #surveillance #CreeperGlasses

Když někdo tvrdí, že #WhatsApp je stejně bezpečný jako #Signal, protože také nabízí #e2e #šifrování, tak by se měl podívat na tohle. Je to porovnání, jaké údaje sbírá/odesílá ta která aplikace. Signal chce jen telefonní číslo (protože je to identifikátor v rámci služby), kdežto WA odesílá například i kontakty, přibližnou polohu nebo platební údaje. A ty údaje proudí do firmy (#Meta), která vydělává primárně právě na tom, že sbírané údaje monetizuje. Ještě někdo se diví, že WA do telefonu nechci?

@signalapp

Alt...

Signal a WhatsApp - porovnání požadovaných oprávnění aplikací

@madeindex

I love this germ at the end:

'Zuckerberg remains optimistic. According to the CEO, Meta could see major benefits from its steep AI investments in as little as three to six months from now — but given the story so far, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical.'

#Meta #AI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@no_adesivigrazie/116597977953126218

More of this, please. Let’s celebrate and offer warm welcomes to everyone who moves their shop from big tech to Mastodon.

Welcome, friend! 👋🏻

#Introduction #Mastodon #Meta #Stickers

"I think this backlash against smart glasses is justified from a security and privacy perspective. Using technology to secretly record someone else isn't new, but bringing this audio- and video-collecting wearable tech into the mainstream has the potential to make it easier to carry out cybercrime and fraud by lowering the bar to entry for abuse.

The ability to covertly record and play back something displayed on someone's phone or computer screen or while someone taps in their password on a keyboard presents a major security problem — especially if that person is unaware of it happening. Recording sensitive data also creates a future risk of that information getting compromised, hacked, or obtained by a legal authority.

It is understandable why some are reframing smart glasses as "pervert glasses," by rejecting the sanitized marketing of tech companies and calling these products what they see them as: surveillance devices. It also speaks to the distrust that some consumers have with tech giants after years of abuses and scandals misappropriating people's data.

There are valid concerns that smart glasses on the market today could soon bake-in more privacy invading tech, like facial recognition."

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/reframing-smart-glasses-as-pervert-glasses/

#Surveillance #Meta #SmartGlasses #Privacy

Meta’s New AI Image Generator Can Make Pictures From Anyone’s Public Instagram Page https://petapixel.com/2026/07/08/metas-new-ai-image-generator-can-make-pictures-from-anyones-public-instagram-page/ #aiimagegenerator #Post-Processing #photoediting #Technology #metaimages #instagram #museimage #aiimage #privacy #metaai #genai #News #meta

Warning, if you missed this yesterday. This practice includes Meta feasting on your photos as well for its dumb AI.

"As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content."

Wired: Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out https://www.wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images-unless-you-opt-out/ @WIRED #privacy #Meta #instagram #copyright

I had to do some inventory tasks for #work today at a remote #datacenter. I was listening to #NPR on the drive home and the discussion was on #AI, specifically on how the #tech titans like #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google, and #Meta have quietly stepped away from #safety mechanisms as their models improve, the #ethical implications, and #government #regulation. While the quiet distancing from safety is of obvious concern, the discussion on regulation caught my attention.

As one host put it (paraphrasing here) you'd think these companies don't want regulation but that's not necessarily the case. They are looking for regulation that favors them, whether it's getting in bed with the government or squashing out the competition. The bottom line is still about maximizing profits.

The last part was some interesting food for thought and it makes sense. If correct, it's some good indication of where they (and we) are headed.

On the flip side, #ChatGPT and these #LLMs still make mistakes that, unless you have at least *some* previously acquired knowledge on said topic, are believable.

Case in point: A few months ago, prior to one of my lab servers dying, I wanted to host both #Debian and #FreeBSD repos on the box (which was running the former). ChatGPT provided erroneous step by step instructions, including instructions to build FreeBSD Ports on Debian...using apt. 🤦

#news #technews #publicradio

Dark patterns in Mastodon?

Mastodon is not built to extract profit from its users, but is its design is influenced by commercial platforms? There are many parallels between Mastodon and Twitter for example. And there is user pressure to implement features found in commercial platforms - quote toots for example.

I fled to Mastodon when Musk took over Twitter with the explicit goal of making it a transphobic medium, but I arrived on Mastodon with my Twitter addiction intact. I wanted the same hit, and I got it. Now Mastodon is my favored displacement activity as I deal with severe depression. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

The EU recently launched an action against X for its addictive design. One feature they explicitly mentioned was infinite scrolling. I don't see how a microblogging system can avoid infinite scrolling, but ok.

My question is: when Mastodon is designed and implemented, is any thought given to the mental health implications of the new features? It's easy to look at features on commercial platforms and say "hey, we can do that too" but those features on the commercial platforms are designed with hostile intent by teams of malign behavioral scientists.

#mastodon #mentalHealth #meta

Oh, wow! WhatsApp kann jetzt Benutzernamen!

Das ist ja der reine Wahnsinn, ich bin erschüttert: WhatsApp (WA) will jetzt eine Funktion einführen, die Signal schon lange hat, nämlich Benutzernamen. Der Sinn liegt darin, dass ich dank Benutzernamen meine Telefonnummer nicht mehr preis geben muss - jedenfalls meinen Chatpartner/inne/n gegenüber. WA weiß die natürlich trotzdem und kann dank des zusätzlichen Benutzernamens sogar die Dienste-übergreifende Verfolgung noch verfeinern. Die Vorteile und Nachteile (!) des Benutzernamens auf WA hat die VZ NRW aufgedröselt. Wie Anonymität richtig geht, macht schon lange Threema vor. Da braucht man von vornherein keine Mobilnummer, auch

https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2026/07/07/oh-wow-whatsapp-kann-jetzt-benutzernamen/

#chat #identität #messenger #meta #privacy #unplugmeta #UnplugTrump #verfolgung #whatsapp

Look, I want to “protect the children” as much as anyone. I also wish that the cynical, craven executives at Meta would spend their retirements getting by on nothing more than SNAP and social security and Medicaid.

Having said that, the greatest damage Facebook did to the world was mobilising grown-ass adults. Genocide in Myanmar, pyramid schemes and scams that target older folks, so much fraud, stalking and abuse. Fox News-ifying a whole generation of older people. Wrecking news as an industry. Defrauding advertisers. The list goes on and on.

I know that “won’t somebody think of the children?” is politically easy to sell. But it is such a small slice of the harm they’ve done to society. If focusing on the children gets them brought low, fine. But I can’t agree that it’s the most important.

https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306

#meta #facebook

"Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Meta, alleging that the company was exploiting its young users on Instagram and Facebook for profit, including by collecting data from children without parental consent."

The damages could be as high as $1.4 trillion, nearly the same as Meta's market capitalization at just above $1.5 trillion.

https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306

Via https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-CHwwNHlfS-GTffJivjlDbA%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

#news #technology #TechNews #meta #facebook #instagram #SocialMedia

Help! Mommy! Why can't I just break things without penalties?

Reuters: Meta says US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties in August youth safety trial https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-says-us-states-are-seeking-14-trillion-penalties-august-youth-safety-trial-2026-07-07/ @Reuters #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #socialmedia

While I really don't have much love for the Mistral products due to being way behind even cheap open weights Chinese models such as the Qwens, DeepSeeks etc of this world, this is an interesting (possibly new) approach:

https://www.heise.de/news/Leanstral-1-5-Mistrals-KI-Modell-fuer-formale-Beweise-ist-Open-Source-11355236.html / https://www.heise.de/en/news/Leanstral-1-5-Mistral-s-AI-model-for-formal-proofs-is-open-source-11355532.html

With the money quote being:
"In addition to mathematical proofs, Mistral demonstrates a pipeline for automatic bug detection in Rust projects. The tool Aeneas translates Rust code to Lean, after which Leanstral derives correctness properties and attempts to prove or disprove them. "

This goes past the very elaborated statistical parrots that LLMs are and goes into the formal verification territory.

As much as I understand this, this is closer to a model checking approach than what we had before and would in theory thus even allow to check for concurrency issues like race conditions etc reliably.

The hard part there of course was to provide the provably correct bridge between the code to be tested and an efficient model checker representation of the same code. Asking the model checker smart "questions" is another part as is translating findings back to the original code.
Since the LLMs guzzle up RAM and CPU already, the consumption of the model checkers / theorem provers isn't an issue anymore (as long as the model they're being fed is efficient...)

Lets see how well the LLMs do on this work.

I'm sure there are already US or Chinese models that do this or will replicate it in a months time.
I think I read about Meta experimenting on this as well.

Did I get the announcement right? Has anyone had their hands on said model+prover combo already? Is anyone aware of Chinese/US equivalent contraptions?
Any updates @heiseonline @heisedeveloper can provide on those questions in the article, especially on competitors?

#llm #ai #formalverification #modelchecker #modelchecking #concurrency #correctness #meta #mistralai #aeneas #leanstral

Gerade bei vielen hier auf Mastodon stößt WhatsApp eher auf Kritik. Wie bei uns – daran ändern auch die neu eingeführten Benutzernamen nichts. Wir haben uns mit dem optionalen Angebot des Messengers beschäftigt: https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/wissen/digitale-welt/apps-und-software/benutzernamen-bei-whatsapp-bieten-nicht-nur-vorteile-123779

#whatsapp #meta #datenschutz #verbraucherzentrale

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116867630152249137

#Meta is a stinking pile of garbage.

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116856918203941961

Yet another reason to #ban #meta
Horrible.

But the worst part is that Zuckerberg laughs all the way to the Bank