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Hard week, but still a ton of news. I’m not gonna lie there’s a lot of AI topics this week. As always, I tried not to pick the most obvious news we’ve all seen all the week 🙂
Social media
X has annonunced they have banned botted accounts from their platform. “Today, we’re kicking off a significant, proactive initiative to eliminate accounts that violate our Rules against platform manipulation and spam”. Not sure it will have any visible effects but it’s a start.
Read the full Tech Crunch website
Facebook is going all on vertical videos to counter TikTok. Apparently vertical videos will become the default format on Meta’s platform. Isn’t that a bit late?
Read the full post on Facebook blog
X, again, is now giving blue checks to influential users who have more than 2,500 “verified” followers, which are people who subscribe to X Premium. Isn’t what a blue check was supposed to be for?
Read the full article on Tech Crunch website
AI
It seems that several days ago Meta’s AI image generator was making everyone Asian. Now it’s unable to generate any Asian people at all.
Read the full article on The Verge website
LifeHacker has published an interesting way to double-check the answers from Google’s Gemini AI and improve the quality of your research.
Read the full article on LifeHacker website
ChatGPT now let you partially edit an image it has generated thanks to a new DALL-E 3 update. It works only on images generated by DALL-E, not images you’ve uploaded yourself. Goodbye Photoshop?
Read the full post on OpenAI blog
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and Habit Burger Grill are running on “AI-first mentality” accornding to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. AI is used for online recommandations, drive-thru orders, kitchen management etc.
Read the full article on The Wall Street Journal website
Regulation
Chrome incognito mode does not protect you has you think! Google finally admitted to delete millions of records of users’ browsing activity in incognito mode as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that alleged it tracked people without their knowledge.
Read the full article on Time website
Tech
Vladimir Putin wants a Russian Playstation… As part of the order from the Russian government on March 25, the VK and GS Groups will be responsible for producing both home and portable consoles for Russian consumers by June 15, 2024. Less than 3 months to create a console, good luck Comrades!
Read the full article on Kotaku website
UX
Interesting article about the top common 10 mistakes when creating users journey maps. It’s a good reminder for UX designers to avoid these pitfalls.
Read the full article on Medium
Planet
Amazon has a serious problem with plastic waste in the US. “The company created 208 million pounds of plastic waste from its packaging in the US in 2022 alone”, according to a new report from Oceana. It increased by 10% compared to 2021. Tech compagnies will save us, they said…
Read the full article on The Verge website