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In India, deepfakes of Bollywood actors asking for a party's votes are doing rounds. These are not authorized videos and are not very good edits either. However, these videos are still present on X, and maybe on WhatsApp and Telegram.
Even if original posts on platforms are removed, the distribution is hard to stop in markets like India, and parties are aware of this.
NEW: Meta AI is blocking election-related queries in India. The company started testing Meta AI across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger in India last week.
Google also previously blocked election-related queries on its Gemini chatbot.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/meta-ai-is-restricting-election-related-responses-in-india/
The report was closed automatically within 48 hours of the initial report, as Instagram didn’t review it.
The user appealed again and got no response and the image was left up on Instagram.
Instagram only removed the image after the Oversight Board accepted the case and notified the company.
NEW: Meta’s Oversight Board takes up a case where Instagram failed to remove an explicit AI-generated image of an Indian female public figure even after a user reported it.
NEW: Elon Musk plans to charge a small fee to new users to enable posting on social networks to curb the bot problem.
X started testing a “Not A Bot” program in New Zealand and the Philippines last year, charging new users $1 per year.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/elon-musk-plans-to-charge-new-x-users-to-enable-posting/
Instagram is testing an AI-powered search bar with pre-populated suggestions. Now, queries take you to a DM conversation with Meta AI. But the most interesting part is that you can ask the bot for content recommendations like Reels.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/meta-is-testing-an-ai-powered-search-bar-in-instagram/
Meta is testing its Meta AI chatbot in markets like India and Nigeria after rolling it out to the US last year. At the moment, it only supports the English language.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/whatsapp-trials-meta-ai-chatbot-in-india-more-markets/
Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger users in WhatsApp appears to be testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with users in India and some other markets.
I wrote about @fancypat's app Palmsy, which is a fun "social network" that lives on your device and gives you fake likes. But the posts go nowhere.
