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The government hopes to address the imbalance in content creation by news media companies and its monetisation by advertising technology companies in the upcoming Digital India Act, said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. Chandrasekhar was speaking at an event by the Digital News Publishers Association in New Delhi on Friday.“We hope to address this issue of disproportionate control and imbalance of dynamics between content creation and its monetisation and the power that…

The Verge has a piece up today named Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine. It covers much of what we reported in Google search responds to BankRate, more brands using AI to write content last week. It also dives more into how the company has been using machines to replace low-cost humans to generate low-quality content designed to rank well in search. Google’s algorithms. All of this reminds me of the Google Panda update days, where Google built algorithms to detect content…

Plans to jail tech bosses over “harmful content” will endanger the UK’s tech sector and civil rights, campaigners have warned. The threat of prison emerged in the British government’s Online Safety Bill. Under new amendments to the legislation, senior managers at internet platforms could be jailed for failing to protect children from online harm. The revisions also mandate the removal of videos depicting illegal immigration “in a positive light.”   The changes follow pressure from politicians…

Netflix Inc. NFLX 7.49% shares rose Friday after the streaming company handily topped its own projections for subscriber gains for the fourth quarter, while analysts weighed the impact of its plans to crack down on password sharing and roll out an ad-supported plan. The streaming giant said after the bell on Thursday that it added 7.7 million new subscribers in the final quarter of the year, topping its own projections for 4.5 million…

Roblox has been criticised for manually curating grossly inappropriate content for children. After playing the game with the strictest parental settings, Twitter user Carolyn Velociraptor took to the social media site to share her findings. “I just spent six hours playing the games meant for 5-year-olds and it was freaking awful,” she wrote. “I deleted my kids’ Roblox accounts, and recommend you guys do too.” She went on to explain that her issue with the game is that “it’s about Roblox *manually* curating content for…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Leading social media platforms are introducing features that allow users to share content that can only be viewed once. For example, consumers can set chats to be deleted immediately after being viewed on communication apps like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. Uri Barnea…

Billy Perrigo / TIME: Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to improve ChatGPT — Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022's most impressive technological … Billy Perrigo / TIME: Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The natural abundance of soil nitrogen (N) stable isotope (δ15N) is a good proxy indicating the integrative soil N cycling processes and fluxes over a long time scale. However, its spatial patterns around the globe is not well understood. In addition, the association with soil water content (SWC),…

Adobe Creative Cloud added a "Content Analysis" section to its privacy and personal data permissions as part of an update. Unfortunately, this automatically opts users' content to be "analyzed by Adobe for product improvement and development purposes" unwittingly — something many users are not happy about.If you don't want Adobe's machine learning training programs to analyze and learn from your work, you must go in personally and opt-out. First, we'll explain a bit more about what Content Analysis is and explain how to…

On a hot summer's day last year, the 90's boy band Backstreet Boys clambered on to a stage in Pennsylvania and belted out hits as 44 million viewers tuned in from thousands of miles away for the online concert hosted by China's WeChat Channels.The show is just one of many events held by WeChat owner Tencent to promote the app's short-video platform - described by the tech giant's founder Pony Ma as "the hope of the company".Tencent Holdings Ltd has tapped other entertainers too like Taiwan's Jay Chou and Irish boy band…