🧑💻 Meta Ran a Giant Experiment in Governance. Now It’s Turning to AI
Plus: Tumblr says it's going to 'fix' its 'core experience' to appeal to new users, You can 'be your true self' on Twitter, Musk says amid Threads rivalry and more...
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Meta Ran a Giant Experiment in Governance. Now It's Turning to AI. Late last month, Meta quietly announced the results of an ambitious, near-global deliberative “democratic” process to inform decisions around the company's responsibility for the metaverse it is creating. (Aviv Ovadya / WIRED)
Our current approach to governing technology isn't good enough—and I have been advocating that 'Platform Democracy' could help - Aviv Ovadya (@metaviv)
Tumblr says it's going to 'fix' its 'core experience' to appeal to new users Tumblr's staff blog has posted a long update on the future of the platform, alluding to coming changes that include redesigning its reply and reblog features. The goal, according to Tumblr staff, is to make Tumblr less intimidating —… (Adi Robertson / The Verge)
Tumblr's building a TikTok inspired feed in bid to grow its user base - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
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You can 'be your true self' on Twitter, Musk says amid Threads rivalry Elon Musk has told users that Twitter is a place where they can stay true to themselves. The platform has been facing increasing pressure from Meta's hot new app, Threads. In contrast, Zuckerberg has been emphasizing Threads as a 'friendly'… (Beatrice Nolan / Insider)
Elon Musk says you can be your true self on Twitter after Mark Zuckerberg calls for kindness on Threads - (@InsiderNews)
Google News Indexing Disruption Causes Decrease In Traffic For Content Publishers. Google is investigating a service disruption affecting Google News indexing, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard. There's an ongoing issue with indexing in Google News that's affecting all sites. (Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal)
The Google News indexing disruption causing a decrease in publisher traffic - Kristi Hines (@kristileilani)
ChatGPT gets the headlines, but scientific research like AlphaFold is also the future of AI, says Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Today, I'm talking to Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, the newly created division of Google responsible for AI efforts across the company (Nilay Patel / The Verge)
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on this week’s @decoderpod talks about the future of AI and competing with ChatGPT - (@verge)
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