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Instagram is distancing itself (and you) from political content | TechCrunch Minute

Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps now filter out political content from people you don’t follow by default. During a U.S. election year, Instagram’s billions of users now won’t be able to see anything the algorithm deems political unless they purposefully change their settings. Some users find the changes alarming as Instagram has become a key…

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Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps now filter out political content from people you don’t follow by default. During a U.S. election year, Instagram’s billions of users now won’t be able to see anything the algorithm deems political unless they purposefully change their settings.

Some users find the changes alarming as Instagram has become a key tool for community organizing and disseminating information. Instagram’s definition of political content is broad, including “laws, elections or social topics,” and the change is just one of many recent content decisions by Instagram and Meta to distance itself from politics and reduce user exposure to news.

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  1. @NickDanzinger

    March 28, 2024 at 11:46 am

    Nice watermelon outfit

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  2. @malcolm2x2

    March 30, 2024 at 8:38 am

    Everything can be considered “political” this could go wrong even though it has the correct intentions.

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What TED Will Look Like in 40 Years — According to Sora, OpenAI’s Unreleased Text-to-Video Model

Sora, an unreleased AI model from OpenAI, generates realistic and imaginative video from text prompts. Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Trillo was granted early access just before the TED2024 conference. This year marks TED’s 40th anniversary — but instead of looking back, we asked Sora to show us what the next 40 years could look like. (Footage…

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Sora, an unreleased AI model from OpenAI, generates realistic and imaginative video from text prompts. Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Trillo was granted early access just before the TED2024 conference. This year marks TED’s 40th anniversary — but instead of looking back, we asked Sora to show us what the next 40 years could look like. (Footage for this video was created with AI using Sora, except for the TED logo animation. Music composed by Jacques: )

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Rabbit’s R1 and Humane’s Ai are rivals for a market that might not (yet) exist | TechCrunch Minute

Is hardware fun again? Two new AI gadgets — Rabbit’s R1 and Humane’s Ai Pin — are finally heading out into the world in an attempt to redefine how we interact with the digital world. But will Rabbit’s R1 and Humane’s Ai Pin truly replace our smartphones anytime soon? For Humane’s Ai Pin in particular,…

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Is hardware fun again? Two new AI gadgets — Rabbit’s R1 and Humane’s Ai Pin — are finally heading out into the world in an attempt to redefine how we interact with the digital world. But will Rabbit’s R1 and Humane’s Ai Pin truly replace our smartphones anytime soon? For Humane’s Ai Pin in particular, the critiques on its limitations have been intense, with many reviewers like MKBHD calling out its shortcomings in fulfilling its ambitious promise. And Rabbit’s R1 just arrived for those who preordered, so we’re finding its strengths and limitations in real time.

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