Meta has fully embraced its role as a right-wing propaganda outlet by loosening community guidelines and replacing third-party fact checkers with X-style community notes. “Too much censorship,” chirped Chairman Mark Zuckerberg. X ad revenue fell by half after it adopted the community notes approach.
Open AI’s o1-preview beat established chess engine Stockfish by cheating. Without human prompting, o1-preview hacked the file system that controlled the game and rewrote the score in its favor. It’s not the first instance of deceptive behavior by an AI, but there’s no cause for alarm, right?
Apple has never been so blatantly irresponsible as Meta, but it also shows a limited concern for accuracy. Rather than withdraw an AI product that generates wildly inaccurate news stories on the latest iPhones, it says it is trying to clarify the nature of the summaries. Recent errors include reports that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself and that tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.
Changes in marketing channels and data access have made advertising measurement more important, and challenging, than ever. Taking advantage of growing interest in the topic, Bain Capital is selling Kantar Group’s audience measurement division, Kantar Media, to global investment firm H.I.G. Capital for “approximately $1 billion”. Kantar Media accounts for 4,500 of Kantar Group’s 25,000 employees.