I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons
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Google is ready to work on AI weapons now
The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week: TikTok's final hours, the environmental impact of AI, and my ideas to help bring some πŸ’ͺ masculine energy πŸ’ͺ back to Meta!!
Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.’s Environmental Impact + Meta’s Masculine Energy
β€œThis is truly one of the funniest and most unexpected stories of the young year so far.”
I wrote about Zuckerberg renouncing Sheryl Sandberg's effort to make Meta a better place for women and people of color to work
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Mark blames Sheryl
PLUS: What executives are telling employees about Meta's move to the right
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned
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Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States
The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down
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NEW: The head of Facebook Messenger has a non-binary child and last week assured employees that Meta would work to preserve queer voices. Two days later the company deleted its trans and non-binary pride themes in Messenger
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Meta goes mask-off
Scenes from a Trump transition
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NEW: Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program. Employees aren't buying the company's argument that it's the result of a 'shifting legal landscape.' What they're saying inside the company ➑️
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Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program
What employees are saying about the company's embrace of MAGA ideology β€”and what Meta is telling them not to say
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