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Zuckerberg’s Supreme Court Can Now Expand Beyond Meta ⚖️
The article from the Washington Post discusses the potential expansion of the independent Oversight Board, initially launched by Mark Zuckerberg in 2019. The board was initially dismissed as a publicity stunt, but with the new European Union regulations requiring greater scrutiny of online platforms, the board's role could expand beyond Meta (formerly Facebook).
The new EU Digital Services Act has designated 19 internet companies, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube, as Very Large Online Platforms due to having more than 45 million users. Starting in August, these companies must open themselves up to scrutiny from an independent third party tasked with monitoring compliance with the law’s demands on content moderation, algorithmic integrity, and safety. The results of the audit, which will need to be done annually, are then submitted to regulators and made public.
The companies will also have to provide users with the option of out-of-court dispute settlement with an independent body when they disagree with moderation or other content-related decisions — similar to the kind of disagreements the Oversight Board was set up to tackle.
Non-compliance with the EU law could lead to fines worth up to 6% of annual revenue, or a ban. The Oversight Board, which has overruled Meta on around 70% of the content-moderation decisions it has examined, could potentially fill this role.
However, this new role would require an overhaul of the board’s structure and require vastly more personnel than its current 22 board members and 80 or so support staff. The board is exploring its potential alignment with the EU law, and Meta supports this effort. However, the Oversight Board faces an uphill battle to meet the law’s definition of independent, which includes financial independence.
washingtonpost.com
AI news
OpenAI launches free ChatGPT app for iOS 📱
The article from The Verge announces that OpenAI has launched a free iOS app for ChatGPT, with an Android version expected soon. The app syncs chat history with the web and features voice input, supported by OpenAI’s open-source speech recognition model, Whisper. It is available on both iPhones and iPads and can be downloaded from the App Store. Initially, the app is being rolled out in the US, with plans to expand to other countries in the coming weeks.
The launch of the mobile app follows the immense popularity of ChatGPT, which was initially launched as an experiment but quickly found a large consumer audience. It is used for a variety of purposes, from academic assistance to business applications. In February, OpenAI introduced a premium subscription, ChatGPT Plus, which offers priority access and responses generated using the company’s latest language model, GPT-4, for $20 a month.
Before the launch of the official app, the primary way to access OpenAI’s language models on mobile was through Microsoft’s Bing app. The new ChatGPT app is expected to attract some of these users away from Microsoft.
However, the article also mentions some of the issues associated with ChatGPT, including its tendency to fabricate information and privacy concerns. OpenAI recently gave users the option to make conversations private, and the app’s home screen warns users not to share sensitive information.
theverge.com
Tools
Report: What People See on Facebook (Q1 2023) 📰
The "Widely Viewed Content Report" from Facebook's Transparency Center provides insights into the most viewed content on Facebook for a given quarter. The report aims to offer transparency and context about what people are seeing on Facebook, including the most viewed domains, links, pages, and posts on the Feed in the United States.
Key points from the Q1 2023 report include:
The report shares data on views and viewers of content in Feed, including recommended content, seen in the United States between 2023-01-01 and 2023-03-31.
The report does not include ads or content viewed outside of Feed, like on Watch, Marketplace, or other places within the app.
The view and viewer counts in this report are based on views on both public and private content.
In Q1 2023, 70.5% of views came from posts shared by people’s friends, from Groups people had joined, or Pages they had followed.
Of the remaining 29.5% of Feed content views in the US during Q1 2023, 18.8% came from in Feed recommendations, which show people content from sources they are not connected to, but we think they might be interested in; we refer to this content as ‘unconnected posts’.
The last 10.7% came from less common products, such as Events, and logging discrepancies.
92.3% of the views in the US during Q1 2023 did not include a link to a source outside of Facebook. For the 7.7% of views in posts that did include a link, they typically came from a Page the person followed.
The top 20 domains seen here collectively accounted for about 1.1% of all Feed content views in the US during Q1 2023.
The top 20 links seen here collectively accounted for 0.01% of all Feed content views in the US during Q1 2023.
The top 20 Pages listed here collectively accounted for about 1.3% of all US content views during Q1 2023.
The top 20 posts seen here collectively accounted for about 0.04% of all US content views.
The report is part of Facebook's efforts to be transparent about what people experience on the platform. They plan to expand future reports, which will continue to appear in conjunction with the Community Standards Enforcement Report.
fb.com
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