NEW: Employment platform company SEEK has quietly updated its privacy policy to say it can train AI on its users' data. One of the uses mentioned is using AI to rank job applicants against each other on their suitability for each job. www.crikey.com.au/20...
Using AI to rank candidates for job applications is one of the possible uses listed by the employment platform company.
Majorities in most countries surveyed say social media is good for democracy except for the Netherlands, France, and the US. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
🚨Another lifeline for journalism is gone. This move signals an end to Meta’s financial support for news in the West. Meta/Facebook "will deprecate Facebook News, a dedicated tab for news content, in the United States and Australia" in April of 2024. about.fb.com/news/2024/02...
In early April, we will deprecate Facebook News, a dedicated tab for news content, in the US and Australia.
Awkward... Meta's own OversightBoard "regularly asks Meta for data to demonstrate that its recommendations 've been implemented. But Meta is not always forthcoming w/internal data, & the board sometimes has to turn to CrowdTangle, the Meta Content Library API..." www.platformer.news/meta-oversig...
The board needs data to determine whether Meta is listening to its recommendations. It isn't always forthcoming
X, formerly Twitter, has been removed by Australia's tech industry group DIGI as a signatory for its Code of Practice On Dis/Misinfo after a complaint by Reset Australia that users couldn't even report electoral misinfo (under X's Civic Integrity policy)
Today, in the AI soap opera: Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO, company says, following his chaotic dismissal from the firm behind ChatGPT
