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Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral

Vox

Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. This time, the shooter shared his appalling acts on Twitch, a livestreaming video app popular with gamers, where it was shut down much more quickly, less than two minutes after the violence began , according to the company.

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Good internet service is still a luxury in the US

Vox

Broadband has become increasingly important for everything from how we work to how we socialize to how we pray. Just over half of Americans making less than $30,000 a year have home broadband, a service that’s increasingly important for numerous aspects of life, from school to work to socializing. It’s also seemingly a luxury good.

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AI-generated video is here to awe and mislead

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These are among a series of demo videos of OpenAI’s Sora, revealed last week, which can turn a short text prompt into up to a minute of video. The artificial intelligence model is not yet open to the public, but OpenAI has released the videos, along with the prompts that generated them. It’s not there yet. That’s diffusion.

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The Supreme Court decides not to break the internet

Vox

The Supreme Court handed down two high-stakes tech decisions on Thursday — cases that, if handled ineptly, could have destroyed much of the internet and subjected social media companies to devastating liability. . | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Clarence Thomas did something right, for a change. The cases involve similar facts.

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Seahawks use AI to generate schedule art as NFL teams try to one up each other on social media

GeekWire

(Twitter Images via @Seahawks) NFL teams have been having a ball the past couple days with social media posts tied to the release of their upcoming season schedules. But this is 2023, and the internet demands more than that. It’s powered by Amazon Web Services , which says it crunches 1 quadrillion total schedule possibilities.

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The Supreme Court appears worried it could break the internet

Vox

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could potentially break much of the internet — and seemed to realize the risks of heading down that path. As Justice Elena Kagan warned at one point during the Gonzalez argument, the justices are “not the nine greatest experts on the internet.” Gonzalez v.

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Kulhad pizza viral video turned out to be “AI-generated”

Dataconomy

The recent Kulhad pizza viral video has surfaced online, and the owner said it is “AI-generated” and not genuine. A viral video initially believed to feature the owner and his wife in compromising circumstances has turned out to be a fake, according to a statement issued by Sehaj, the restaurant’s proprietor.

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