Facebook is shutting down its Live Shopping feature, the company announced in a terse blog post, although it remains an option on Instagram for now. Live shopping news has been mixed recently: YouTube just supported it with a Shopify integration, and a report that TikTok is pulling back is contradicted by later stories that the program is going great.

Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike.  Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else.  Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed.  It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.