AI Briefing: Social platforms start tasting the bitter fruit of generative AI
By Marty Swant
As social platforms move fast with new AI features, users are already breaking things.
Last week, celebrities including actor Tom Hanks, TV journalist Gayle King and YouTube creator MrBeast all warned of deepfake ad scams featuring their likeness. Meanwhile, Meta’s new AI stickers have already generated controversy as various reports last week showed users easily creating problematic content. And on Friday, the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap over the platform’s “potential failure” to identify and assess risks to children related to its “My AI” chatbot.
These problems probably aren’t surprising, especially after experts have spent the past year warning of risks with AI-related misinformation and data privacy risks. However, they show how all the worries are more than just a hypotheses — and provide concrete examples for how the AI era might accelerate the same woes of Web2.
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