In Brief: Cue AI Psychosis,
a new area of psychological concern people claim, in complaints to the US Federal Trade Commission, caused by interaction with generative AI.
a new area of psychological concern people claim, in complaints to the US Federal Trade Commission, caused by interaction with generative AI.
The US BBB Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) has issued guidance on use of AI and particularly generative AI for young people. Concern in this area is growing over children’s exposure and how to assess AI’s impact on them. Young users are at particular risk as they have difficulty distinguishing non-human vs. human interaction, recognizing harmful intent, and guarding against invasion of privacy.
On the upside, a US district judge just dramatically lowered a $167 million fine (to ~$4 million) they were supposed to pay to Meta for targeting WhatsApp users. On the downside, NSO has been blocked from targeting WhatsApp’s users in the future.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.