Specifically, plans are to: 1) monitor Facebook and Instagram to protect against fake celebrity endorsement scams, and 2) aid in identity verification for account recovery.
As if concern over social media impact on teen mental health weren’t enough, now organized groups have been found engaging in ‘sextortion,’ a form of blackmail in which teens are persuaded to share nude or intimate photos and then they’re blackmailed into paying to keep the images private. Instagram, which has faced criticism over making their feed addictive to young users, has added new features to protect against ‘sextortion,’ but critics complain that its parent company, Meta, does not go far enough to protect young users.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.