In a world where technology advances unprecedentedly, copyright issues are shifting to unexpected battlefields. The recent legal clash involving Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) model, LLaMA, and a group of authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman, has sparked fierce debates about whether
Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter) ranked lowest in the climate misinformation scorecard, despite promises to combat misinformation on his platform. The world’s richest man bought Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion and renamed it X in July
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in China will form a task force to set the standards for the metaverse sector. China has joined the race to be the global standards-setter for new immersive technology with Australia, which
The UK’s Online Safety Bill for a “safer Internet” has passed its final parliamentary debate and will become law soon, following years of deliberation. This sets tougher standards for social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. A game-changer The
The current wave of generative AI tools like ChatGPT will soon be surpassed by “interactive artificial intelligence”, according to AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman. Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and founder of Inflection, has hinted that the next big thing after
The number of active users in the Decentraland and The Sandbox metaverses has dropped massively, according to DappRadar statistics. The two platforms had less than 4,000 unique active wallets in the past 30 days, while the floor prices of non-fungible
YouTuber Jarvis Johnson spent a week testing Meta’s Horizon Worlds, describing the experience as “so lonely.” Challenges faced by Johnson included trying to find adults to interact with as the environment is regularly crowded out with younger users, contributing to
Threads, the social media app created by Meta to rival Twitter, is blocking searches for words it considers to be “potentially sensitive.” It includes “COVID,” “vaccines,” and other keywords that the company accuses of being linked to what it calls
Metaverse technology is creating new opportunities for teachers to inspire students, said Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs at Meta. Clegg believes that this immersive technology has transformed ‘various areas of education in recent decades’, according to his new blog.
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon and four other writers have sued OpenAI, accusing them of misusing his writing to train their popular AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. ChatGPT, OpenAI’s brainchild, has become the trendsetter of the generative AI era after millions of
In a new ad campaign, Meta, the company previously known as Facebook, emphasizes the real and pragmatic socio-economic benefits of virtual reality, diverging from its erstwhile futuristic portrayal of the metaverse experience. The core theme behind the ad series is
World over, the retail sector has seen a significant shift with shoppers adopting online shopping as opposed to traditional brick-and-mortar experiences, and another trend—metaverse shopping—is emerging. Metaverse shopping, as a new trend in the retail sector, is gaining traction, and
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