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Meta warns about malicious ChatGPT imposters
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Meta has compared this phenomenon to cryptocurrency scams, as both tactics exploit people's curiosity and trust to gain access to sensitive information. The company said they have found around 10 malware families posing as ChatGPT and similar tools to compromise accounts across the internet.
Meta purges over 43 mn bad pieces of content on FB, Insta in March in India
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These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues etc, said Meta in its monthly report in compliance with the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
Meta seeks OpenAI's help to create AI coding assistant for its engineers
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According to 'Command Line' by The Verge's Alex Heath, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth recently told employees about the plan, saying the cost for building an AI coding engineer is "crazy" at about seven cents per query. "That's the only place in the company we're really considering working with Microsoft and OpenAI, just because there's a natural business integration there," he told employees.
Meta seeks OpenAI's help to create AI coding assistant for its engineers
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According to 'Command Line' by The Verge's Alex Heath, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth recently told employees about the plan, saying the cost for building an AI coding engineer is "crazy" at about seven cents per query. That's the only place in the company we're really considering working with Microsoft nd OpenAI, just because there's a natural.
Instagram to let users add songs to photo carousels
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According to Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the tool is already available in a "few countries with more to come." Instagram already allows users tag songs to individual photos but now, they will be able to add their favourite songs to the photo carousel as they swipe through the photo collection. Zuckerberg also said that the Instagram is testing a new way to add music to Notes.
Meta introduces improved avatars with new body shapes, hair, clothing
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The company also announced that over one billion avatars have been created across its platforms. "Today we're announcing some improvements to Meta Avatars that will help freshen up your look just in time for spring. We're adding a handful of new avatar body shapes to help you better express yourself -- especially if expressing yourself means dancing along to 'Hips Don't Lie'," Meta said in a blogpost on Thursday.
FB, Insta to soon mandate checkout experience on Shops
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"Beginning April 24 of next year, Shops without checkout on Facebook and Instagram enabled will no longer be accessible," Meta said in a blogpost on Thursday. This means that the shops that direct people to an e-commerce site to complete a purchase, rather than allowing people to make a purchase directly through Facebook.
WhatsApp rolling out 'reply with message' feature within call notifications
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The company said that it will be rolling out the feature to even more people over the coming days. According to WABetaInfo, this feature will allow users to easily decline an incoming call and send a message to the caller at the same time.
Time spent on Instagram up 24% thanks to AI-driven Reels: Zuckerberg
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Reels continues to grow quickly on both Facebook and Instagram. Reels also continue to become more social with people resharing Reels more than 2 billion times every day, doubling over the last six months. Reels are also increasing overall app engagement and we believe that we're gaining share in short-form video too.
Users can now use their WhatsApp account on multiple phones
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Users can now link their phone as one of up to four additional devices. This update has started rolling out to users globally and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks, the company said. "A feature highly requested by users, now you can link your phone as one of up to four additional devices, the same as when you link with WhatsApp on web browsers, tablets and desktops. Each linked phone connects to WhatsApp independently, ensuring that your personal messages, media.
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