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Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry

Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry

Since late 2023, around a dozen artificial intelligence Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their parent company, Meta, quietly existed on the platforms. Originally launched alongside a suite of official celebrity AI characters, the AI-driven personalities posted some AI-generated images and were available for chatting over direct messages.  Until Friday, those AI accounts never attracted much attention. When they did, …

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Avicii hoped ‘to be content’ before days leading to his death

Avicii hoped ‘to be content’ before days leading to his death

Avicii hoped ‘to be content’ before days leading to his death Avicii was hopeful he could learn how to be content in documentary voiceover. The Swedish DJ—who died by suicide at age 28 in 2018—narrates his own story in a docufilm Avicii — I’m Tim produced with a compilation of some voiceovers he left behind. Tim Bergling, who went with …

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China’s young workers – overqualified and in low-paying jobs

China’s young workers – overqualified and in low-paying jobs

BBC/Rachel Yu Sun Zhan, 25, graduated in finance. He now works as a hotpot waiter in Nanjing, in eastern China China is now a country where a high-school handyman has a master’s degree in physics; a cleaner is qualified in environmental planning; a delivery driver studied philosophy, and a PhD graduate from the prestigious Tsinghua University ends up applying to …

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