Meta's supervisory board wants the company to update its media manipulation policy, calling the current rules “inconsistent.” This follows the decision of the board of directors regarding a wrongly edited video of President Joe Biden.
The video featured footage from October 2022, when the president accompanied his granddaughter, who was voting in person for the first time. News footage shows him placing an “I Voted” sticker on his shirt. A Facebook user later shared an edited version that looped the moment so it looked like he touched her chest multiple times, adding the caption that Biden was a “sick pedophile.”
The Oversight Board said the video did not violate Meta's manipulated media policy because it was not edited with AI tools and because the edits were “obvious and therefore unlikely to to mislead”. (Was the forum on Facebook?)
The board expressed concern about current media policy, which is manipulated in many ways, including being too focused on how the content was created rather than on the specific harms it prevents (such as harmful electoral processes). He writes that Meta should “reconsider this policy quickly, given the number of elections in 2024.”
—Mat Smith
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The company could reveal “more details” next week.
Microsoft's games division appears to be considering a significant change in its major exclusives strategy. Rumors have been circulating for some time that the company would bring Rush to Hi-Fia well-received game from last year, and Sea of Thieves to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5. But the company could also add some of its most recent blockbuster Xbox exclusives to the PS5, which would mark a monumental policy shift. Several publications suggest that several games could make the jump, including the Gears of War series, Indiana Jones And Star field. “We listen and we hear you,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer wrote on X: “We have a commercial update event planned for next week, where we look forward to sharing more details with you about our vision for the future of Xbox. Stay tuned.”
The signals will be written entirely by journalists, using Microsoft's chatbot as a research tool.
Microsoft is partnering with media website Semafor on a new project that uses ChatGPT to make it easier to create news articles, called signals. This is one of several journalism collaborations announced by Microsoft, following this. New York Times lawsuit filed against the company and OpenAI for copyright infringement.
Google said in January that it had no immediate plans to support Apple's headset.
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