A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.

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Butler’s “Darwin among the machines” warned of a future mechanical race that could subjugate humanity.

Hi. Today we're looking at AI-generated images, why they look like that, why fascists love them, and how corporations want to use them to cheapen the valuable work of creatives.

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Young male gamers in South Korea thought it resembled a gesture used to poke fun at the size of men’s penises.

Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

It’s going to be like this forever, isn’t it

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Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.

In an accompanying video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream discourse.”

In tandem with this announcement, the company made a number of updates across its Community Guidelines, an extensive set of rules that outline what kinds of content are prohibited on Meta’s platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. Some of the most striking changes were made to Meta’s “Hateful Conduct” policy, which covers discussions on immigration and gender.

In a notable shift, the company now says it allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird.’”

In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy.

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One year-end summary from Fable, a social app where people share what books they read, told the user, “Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, OK?”

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Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

A German public broadcaster had initially defended its decision to have Thilo Mischke present its flagship cultural program. Over 100 writers, artists and journalists had petitioned against the choice.

We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

The Arrowhead Game Studios exec was asked about 'DEI' in the sci-fi shooter

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As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.

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The Oxford Literary Festival has been criticised for including heterosexual gender critical campaigner Helen Joyce in its LGBTQ+ listings.

Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.

Who is Tatsumi Maasaki?

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Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele has hit out at Warner Bros. for allegedly using audio from his viral internet …

Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.

Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.