Social Media News Too Much Focus On Ai Has Taken The ‘social’ Out Of Social Media

AI Is Bringing MFA To Social Media. Here’s How Advertisers Can Avoid It

For years, MFA was a mostly web-based problem. Now, gen AI has supercharged the made-for-advertising model, and it’s infecting social media feeds. Read More

Risks of AI Mirror Social Media

Artificial intelligence is already blurring how we think about what is real, even when we know the truth. A recent study at UC Davis had AI chatbots send messages to people’s phones to remind them to ... Read More

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social ... Read More

AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too

AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but ... Read More

AI Slop Has Turned Social Media Into an Antisocial Wasteland

Commentary: Platforms that once helped us stay in touch have become fractured and impersonal -- and AI slop and deepfakes are making it so much worse. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, ... Read More

OpenAI's Sora Social Media App Is an AI Deepfake Fever Dream

The new Sora 2 video model takes AI slop to the next, scarier level: Deepfakes, available for free to anyone using the app. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including ... Read More