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LinkedIn in is under fire as they’ve started to use user-generated content to train its AI systems without first having asked its users for permission to do so.

In its updated privacy policy, LinkedIn revealed that posts, articles, and other types of content shared on the platform may be used to improve the performance of its AI models. While the platform has added an opt-out option, it appears that users were automatically included in this process without any initial consent.

How Does LinkedIn’s AI Work With Personal Data?

LinkedIn’s AI is made as a tool to assist users by suggesting content creation ideas, drafting messages, and giving users other types of automated responses. The system relies on personal data, such as user posts and articles, to train the AI…

Meta is bringing more Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook features with its latest big thing: Meta AI. They have announced that Meta AI can now be used in 22 countries, with new languages it supports. This tool was created to help users with questions, tips and assistance with tasks using the latest Llama 405B model. Zuckerberg shared, “In addition to having significantly better cost/performance relative to closed models, the fact that the 405B model is open will make it the best choice for fine-tuning and distilling smaller models.”

Meta shared that this tool is open source, making it accessible to the public, and for developers to modify the code how they see fit. The announcement of their new Llama 3.1 405B confirms that more complex questions related to coding and math,…

Posts are circulating on social media incorrectly claiming that an exemption to London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) for electric vehicles is to end next year.

A screenshot of a BBC article with the headline “End to discounts for zero-emission vehicles” in the London section of the BBC News site has been shared with a misleading caption that links this to ULEZ.

Posts with similar captions, which have been shared both on X (formerly Twitter) and on Facebook, say: “NET ZERO -Oh look. All those conned into believing an electric car would prevent them being charged to drive in London are about to be shafted. ULEZ exemption to end next year!”

But this is not what the BBC story, published on 1 July, says. It covers a change to the congestion charge that electric…

• Mayim Bialik, 47, is raising awareness about colonoscopies on Instagram.

• The Jeopardy! host shared photos and videos from the hospital prep room before she underwent the standard procedure.

• “It’s not terribly fun getting older,” she wrote.

Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik is speaking up about the importance of colonoscopies. And in an effort to destigmatize the often hushed preventative care, she shared a video while in the hospital—from the prep room of her own colonoscopy—wearing a hospital gown, hair net, and all.

“It’s not terribly fun getting older. Especially when you have to get a routine colonoscopy and really wish you didn’t have to,” she captioned the post. “Let’s remove the stigma of…

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