meta

Meta has previewed its AI video generator called Movie Gen by showing some impressive-looking examples, but there's no word on a release date.

Harvard students have demonstrated the terrifying power of AI smart glasses by making a pair that reveals anyone's personal information by just looking at them.

A photography trend in the 2020s has seen freelancers start positioning themselves more and more as content creators, with YouTube often being the obvious place to start putting out videos about photography.

Instagram has introduced a new in-app feature called "best practices" which explicitly tells creators how to improve their photos and reels on the platform.

When asked this week if Meta is using photos taken on Ray-Ban smart glasses to train its AI, company representatives refused to deny or confirm.

Meta was fined more than $100 million for a security breach that saw the company store some users' passwords in plain text.

Hundreds of thousands of people have fallen for a hoax that claims to deny Meta the right to use their photos for training the company's AI.

At the Meta Connect event yesterday (Wednesday), Mark Zuckerberg's company announced that AI images might start appearing in people's Facebook and Instagram feeds. While some may react in horror to that news, what's even creepier is the AI images may be representations of the users themselves.

Today at Meta Connect, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person.

Earlier this year, Meta -- parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- said it would be adding a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI. That rollout went poorly, and now the company is making another update to how it displays that notification, it's second in three months.

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has admitted to scraping the public photos and text of every Australian adult Facebook or Instagram user dating back nearly 20 years.

Instagram now allows users to leave public comments on other's Stories which will be visible to everyone for 24 hours.

Instagram has introduced new tools that let users add text to photos and layer images together.

It appears that Meta is no longer developing its rumored Apple Vision Pro competitor, a premium VR/AR headset codenamed "La Jolla."

A bill introduced in the California state senate aims to prevent the dangers of artificial intelligence. Critics, including Google and Meta, say the bill could stifle innovation and even kill California's significant tech industry.

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube -- breaking the search giant’s own rules against advertising to children.

Instagram is making "views" the primary metric for Reels, Stories, photos, and carousels.

There's a clear need for a consistently effective way to tell if an image is fake on news and social media. However, current implementations of fake-detection technology have missed the mark and can potentially undermine the more effective tools that will undoubtedly arrive later.

Turkey blocked access to Instagram across the country without stating a reason or duration for the ban.

Some Instagram users discovered that their photos had been permanently deleted this week and the images were unable to be recovered.

Instagram now lets users create AI versions of themselves which can talk to their followers on their behalf.

Amid increasing concerns over AI-generated and edited images, Meta has admitted that it incorrectly censored an actual, unedited image of Donald Trump captured during the July 13th assassination attempt against the former president.

Meta must do more to address AI-generated explicit images after it fell short in its response to non-consensual, nude deepfakes of two female public figures on its platforms, according to a report.

Meta has introduced its new AI-generator "Imagine Me" which allows users to create images based on their photos.

While Meta deals with artificial intelligence in the form of its constantly-changing content tagging system, the company's research wing is hard at work on novel generative AI technology, including a new Meta 3D Gen platform that delivers text-to-3D asset generation with high-quality geometry and texture.

With growing fury against its hamfisted approach to labeling photos as "Made with AI", Meta says it is "evaluating" its approach.

Facebook and Instagram users are reportedly suing Meta in small claims court to recover their lost accounts due to the social media giant's lack of customer service help.

In a new study conducted by The Wall Street Journal and an academic researcher, Instagram's algorithm was found to have repeatedly recommended sexual videos to young teenage users -- some as young as 13 years old.