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Meta’s Oversight Board is expanding its purview to include Threads. The group announced that Threads users will now be able to appeal Meta’s content moderation decisions, giving the independent group the ability to influence policies for Meta’s newest app.It’s a notable expansion for the Oversight Board, which up until now has weighed in on content moderation issues related to Facebook and Instagram posts. “Having independent accountability early on for a new app such as Threads is vitally important.,” board co-chair…

But malicious use of generative AI is sure to increase, the firm projects: "AI's continuous development will undoubtedly increase the potency of its potential misuse."Also: I tested Meta's Code Llama with 3 AI coding challenges that ChatGPT aced - and it wasn't goodThe attacks thus far have met with the challenge that the high cost of developing large language models has limited the kind of output attackers can generate from the models to use as attack code. "Threat actors' attempts to craft and use such models in 2023…

Getting started with Code LlamaTo get started, you'll need to create a free account on Hugging Face. If you already have one (as I do), you can use the 70B Code Llama LLM with that account. Also: GitHub: AI helps developers write safer code, but you need to get the basics rightOne thing that's important to note is that, while you could install Code Llama on your own server and thereby not share any of your code, the story is far different on Hugging Face. That service says that anything you type in might be shared…

Getting started with Code LlamaTo get started, you'll need to create a free account on Hugging Face. If you already have one (as I do), you can use the 70B Code Llama LLM with that account. Also: GitHub: AI helps developers write safer code, but you need to get the basics rightOne thing that's important to note is that, while you could install Code Llama on your own server and thereby not share any of your code, the story is far different on Hugging Face. That service says that anything you type in might be shared…

Europe's privacy enforcers should oppose Meta Platforms' no-ads subscription service launched in Europe last November because it requires users to pay a fee to ensure their privacy, a model likely to be copied by other companies, a group of 28 organisations said on Friday.The joint letter by privacy activist Max Schrems' advocacy group NOYB, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Wikimedia Europe, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre and others to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) comes as the EDPB prepares…

Meta If you’re thinking about buying a virtual reality headset, you simply can’t go wrong with the Meta Quest Pro, especially now that you can get the device with an 11% discount from Amazon. From its original price of $1,000, it’s down to $899 — it’s still not cheap, but it’s excellent value for a VR headset that promises top-of-the-line features for both gaming and productivity. You’re going to have to be quick with your purchase if you’re interested though, as we’re not sure how much time you’ve got left to enjoy…

Meta’s open-source Seamless models: A deep dive into translation model architectures and a Python implementation guide using HuggingFaceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Meta’s open-source Seamless models: A deep dive into translation model architectures and a Python implementation guide using HuggingFaceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s…

Meta Platforms said on Thursday that businesses purchasing a "boost" for their posts on the iOS versions of its social media apps Facebook and Instagram would need to pay an extra 30% service charge to app store operator Apple.Advertisers will be able to boost their content on Instagram and Facebook via a browser without paying the Apple service charges, the social media giant said.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIT…

Meta’s AI researchers have released a new model that’s trained in a similar way as today’s large language models, but instead of learning from words, as today’s state-of-the-art language models do, it learns from video. Yann LeCun, who leads Meta’s FAIR (foundational AI research) group, has been explaining over the past year that the reason children learn about the world so quickly is because they intake lots of information through their optical nerve and through their ears. They learn what things in the world are called…

The technology from Apple is getting so much attention that even the CEO of a rival brand was tempted to try. Apple Vision Pro is currently the most talked about device across the globe right now. The Rs 2.8 lakh mixed reality headset from the iPhone maker went on sale a few weeks ago and since then, the device is all over the internet. The technology from Apple is getting so much attention that even the CEO of a rival brand was tempted to try. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta tried Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset Vision…