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In November 2023, a month after Hamas launched an attack on Israel and war was subsequently unleashed on the people of Palestine, the state of Israel took to Instagram with a widely-shared post. The first picture displays Israeli soldier Yoav Atzmoni posing in front of a tank, holding a rainbow-bordered Israel flag; the second shows...

No surprise here: ChatGPT is still not a reliable replacement for human hiring officers and recruiters. In a newly published study from the University of Washington, the intelligent AI chatbot repeatedly ranked applications that included disability-related honors and credentials lower than those with similar merits but did not mention disabilities. The study tested several different...

Young Instagram users are more easily recommended sexually explicit and harmful videos than the platform lets on, according to a new report. The child safety findings are based on two different site experiments conducted by the Wall Street Journal and Northeastern University computer science professor Laura Edelson. Tested over a period of seven months, the...

YouTube videos are getting the Community Notes treatment. The platform will be experimenting with a community-driven fact-checking feature, announced June 17, and designed to provide “relevant, timely, and easy-to-understand” context to YouTube videos — an apt endeavor as misinformation (and disinformation) proliferates online. “This could include notes that clarify when a song is meant to...

In a new lawsuit filed in California this week, two Apple recruits accuse the company of discriminatory pay practices — specifically offering lower pay and few paths to higher salaries for thousands of current and former female employees. The lawsuit documents a pre-2017 system of hiring policies that aligned base salaries with rates from previous...

New Google Play guidelines are putting the cuffs on generative AI apps offering dubious tools, such as deepfake “undressing” apps and those producing graphic content. The updated app store policy, announced Thursday, instructs generative AI apps and their developers to build-in precautions against offensive content, “including prohibited content listed under Google Play’s Inappropriate Content policies,...

Nearly two years after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, families of the victims are taking legal action against Meta and Activision Blizzard, claiming that these tech corporations played a role in the tragedy. SEE ALSO: How to help after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas According to Politico, the lawsuit...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) might be stepping up the country’s AI enforcement mechanisms, as the organization explores new rules for disclosing the use of AI in political ads. According to a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released this week, the commission is beginning initial investigations into nationwide requirements for labeling AI used in political...

Some of the biggest names in social media, dating apps, and digital finance are teaming up to fight escalating online financial scams. Perhaps those disturbing AI-generated Facebook posts will finally meet their match. Announced Tuesday, May 21, the Tech Against Scams coalition will act as a convening body between a network of tech companies to...