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‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws
Labor government under pressure to create social media watchdog as new online safety standards bill passes lower house.
Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely
The industry is engaged in a perverse quest to replace humans. We cannot cede the best tools available to the other side I don’t need to tell you that people hate AI. The list of grievances is long: slop, cheating, bias, enfeeblement, electricity bills, environmental destruction, exploitation, theft, cybercrime, doom. But resistance to the technology has often taken the form of shaming people for personally using it, with precious little organizing against the companies building the machines.
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users When Usman asked if a keyboard for sale on Facebook Marketplace was still available on Saturday, he received an enthusiastic and immediate response. “Yep still available!” wrote Matt Robb. Continue reading...
US attacks Australia's 'opt-out' algorithm law in rare intervention
The Trump administration says that the law would be "extraterritorial censorship of protected speech" and that it would force US social media companies to comply with Australian law. The article also mentions that the US government is concerned about the potential impact of the law on the global tech industry.
Meta Is Using You To Build A Robot Empire
Over 7 million Ray-Ban Meta glasses were sold in 2025. That’s 7 million cameras recording your life. And conveniently, that footage is exactly what AI needs to learn how to walk, cook, and steal your job. The data collected by Ray-Ban Meta glasses is unprecedented. To understand Meta’s endgame, we analyzed the company’s organizational shifts, interviewed leading robotics experts, and conducted a 72-hour field test wearing the glasses to map exactly what data is being harvested for AI training. From “episodic memory” to “intuitive physics,” we explain how Meta can use your daily life to train an empire of bots.
Australians could get the power to switch off social media algorithms
The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.
I turned off my algorithm for 24 hours. Is this how social media used to be?
Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I try to travel back to 2012 – before everything on the internet was an ad. I have a confession. I love my social media algorithm. It is a perfectly curated window into my insane and inquiring mind. It knows precisely which videos will tickle me and which memes will gently distract me from the slow collapse of humankind.
Deepfakes are wrecking influencers’ credibility, one fake ad at a time
Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves.
How much control should we have over the algorithm? - podcast
As the federal government prepares to introduce digital duty of care laws, social media users could soon be given the option to turn off their recommendation algorithms entirely. But with the Coalition warning of internet censorship and big tech relying on these feeds for revenue, would an opt-out switch actually make platforms safer?
Social media users could opt out of the algorithm if Australian government has its way – but that’s a big if
Even if the legislation passes, tech companies may still find ways to frustrate its intent and keep Australians hooked on their feed Social media could become a “choose your own adventure” between the doom-scrolling status quo, or just the feed of the friends you want to see, if the government’s planned digital duty of care legislation passes, and the tech companies don’t muck around on compliance.
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