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Welcome to “The Know,” a look at the latest no-hype news with contextualized commentary prefaced with a 🎙️ emoji. Let’s go!
Last week Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney with examples of AI-generated images of Darth Vader and Shrek. They allege the AI video company is a “quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism.”
🎙️ Now that these giants have entered the copyright chat, we might find clarity on copyright disputes and see new licensing agreements for AI data training (input) and output. And hopefully… pathways for smaller artists and content creators to control their IP as well.
On Monday Meta announced “channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status in the WhatsApp Updates” while saying chats will remain encrypted and ad-free.
🎙️ It surprisingly took Meta over 10 years to integrate ads into WhatsApp. If your WhatsApp is connected to your Meta Accounts Center, they’ll use those ad preferences from Facebook and Instagram.
Apple released a paper last week on AI called “The Illusion of Thinking” highlighting the limitations of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) saying, “frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities.”
🎙️ LRMs are new AI tools hyped as a step up from classic Large Language Models (LLMs) because of their ability to follow a chain of thought and problem solve. Whatever AI chatbot you use, it’s important to remember that there can still be flaws and errors in outputs. Just because AI says so, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily accurate or true. Verify the sources.
This week the TikTok ban was extended another 90 days via executive order. The Trump administration is pushing for a deal with American investors to move TikTok’s operations to the US.
🎙️ TikTok is one of the eight large platforms that come to mind when we think of social media, but the social media roster is larger than we think. Don’t miss: Parents, Can You Define Social Media?
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