A Gallup poll found that Americans' increased familiarity with generative AI coincides with negative attitudes, with nearly half of 18- to 29-year-olds viewing it as more harmful than good. In respons…
AI is amplifying social comparison and creating new mental health risks for teenagers, according to a new guide for parents. The post highlights that AI-enhanced images on social media are now ubiquit…
Snap Inc. announced on July 31 that wholly AI-generated videos will no longer be eligible for recommendation on its Spotlight feature, a change aimed at rewarding authentic human-created content amid …
Snap Inc. updated Spotlight recommendations in July 2026 so wholly AI-generated videos are no longer eligible for distribution in the short-form discovery feed, while content enhanced or edited with S…
Snapchat's automated safety system sent a private group chat from 22-year-old student teacher Kristen Volpe to the FBI, leading to her arrest at John L. Hensey Elementary School in Washington, Illinoi…
Snap Inc. announced on July 31 that wholly AI-generated videos will no longer be eligible for recommendation in Spotlight, Snapchat's discovery feed, to 'reward authentic creativity.' The policy, whic…
Snapchat has stopped algorithmically recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, its short-form video feed, as the company tries to direct more distribution toward videos made by people. The…
Snap Inc. announced that wholly AI-generated videos will no longer be eligible for recommendation on Spotlight, the short-video feed in Snapchat, effective this month, to reward authentic human-made c…
Snap Inc. announced that Snapchat will ban AI-generated content from its Spotlight feed, joining LinkedIn, Substack, and TikTok in addressing the proliferation of low-quality AI slop on social media p…
LinkedIn added a 'Seems like AI slop' button on Thursday to let users flag low-quality or AI-heavy posts, as the company blocks hundreds of thousands of automated slop comment attempts daily and has p…
Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are implementing measures to combat the spread of AI-generated fake content, commonly referred to as 'AI slop'. The platforms are responding to a surge in low…
Four families filed a lawsuit Thursday in Delaware Superior Court against Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, alleging the platforms' addictive algorithms contributed to the suicides of four teenager…
Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, announced on Friday that its Spotlight recommendation system will no longer reward fully AI-generated videos, prioritizing content created by real people. Th…
Snap Inc. announced that as of this month, wholly AI-generated videos will no longer be eligible for recommendation on Spotlight, its user-generated content platform, to prioritize authentic, human-ma…
Former Love Island USA star Nicolas Vansteenberghe is facing backlash after sharing an AI-generated image depicting himself with darker skin and wearing grillz, which fans have accused of cultural app…
Meta and Snapchat are facing a privacy backlash over their AI-powered smart glasses, with critics drawing parallels to the failed Google Glass. Meta updated its glasses after reports that owners paid …
A new parent's guide at parentsguidetoai.ca warns that children are already using AI systems daily without recognizing them as AI, including TikTok's recommendation engine, Snapchat filters, and gamin…
OpenAI has opened the beta version of its advertising platform on ChatGPT, but the lack of a clear, coherent audience definition poses a major challenge for advertisers. While OpenAI holds a 50% marke…
Elha-Mai Weston, 19, who was ordered to pay £10,000 to Sasha Davies, 19, after using her social media photos and AI-generated content to create fake online profiles in a four-year catfishing campaign,…
Reelful, an iOS app founded by former Snapchat machine learning engineer Kate Deyneka, uses AI to automatically transform users' camera roll photos and video clips into polished short-form videos for …