📱 Instagram's Pedophile Problem

💔 Unsettling Reality: Instagram's Algorithm Facilitates Sale and Spread of Child Exploitation Material

Instagram’s algorithms are promoting networks of pedophiles who sell child sexual abuse content on the app.

According to a joint investigation by The Wall Street Journal, Stanford University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, these accounts use explicit hashtags and offer “menus” of content for users to buy or commission.

When researchers set up a test account and viewed this content, they were immediately recommended more accounts to follow.

In response, Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has set up an internal task force to address the issue and has taken down accounts that violate its child safety policies.

Meta noted that it took down 490,000 accounts that violated its child safety policies in January alone and has removed 27 pedophile networks over the last two years. However, experts say more must be done to tackle this issue.

Rapid Rundown

• 📱Instagram’s algorithms are promoting networks of pedophiles who sell child sexual abuse content on the app.

• 🚫 Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has set up an internal task force to address the issue and has taken down accounts that violate its child safety policies.

📆 Twitter Faces Eviction in Boulder for Unpaid Rent

Twitter is getting evicted from its office in Boulder for owing three months’ rent.

Since Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter’s business has been in disarray, with numerous reports of unpaid bills including a $93,504 unpaid fee to a cleaning company and their Google Cloud bill we covered 3 days ago.

The landlord has been drawing on a letter of credit to pay the rent, but the money ran out in March and Twitter hasn’t paid since. A judge has signed off on the eviction, and it’s expected to happen before the end of July.

Twitter’s Boulder office once had as many as 300 employees, but that number has dwindled.

Rapid Rundown

• 🏠 Twitter is getting evicted from its Boulder office for owing three months’ rent.

• 💸 Since Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter’s business has been in disarray with numerous reports of unpaid bills.

🔥 OpenAI Unveils Upgraded AI Models and Slashes Prices Amid Intensifying Competition

OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models and reducing pricing as competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer.

The company announced the release of new versions of GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4, with a capability called function calling. This allows developers to describe programming functions to the models and have them create code to execute those functions.

OpenAI is also introducing a flavor of GPT-3.5-turbo with a greatly expanded context window, which can ingest around 20 pages of text in a single go.

Pricing for GPT-3.5-turbo and text-embedding-ada-002 has been reduced by 25% and 75%, respectively.

Rapid Rundown

• 🔥 OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models and reducing pricing as competition grows fiercer.

• 📞 New versions of GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 have been released with a capability called function calling.

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