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OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since its release in November 2022, and has demonstrated its ability to pass medical licensing exams,

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An unsealed lawsuit involving the titans of social media, including Meta, Snap, ByteDance, Google, and their respective companies and employees, alleges they were all privy to the addictive nature of social media—surprising no one.

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Twitter-rival Koo, is bringing its own ChatGPT feature to its platform, saying it will assist users with writing more profound posts. Koo announced the addition on Monday, calling it a “global first” and saying it will be rolled out to the public soon.

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After Instagram made every short-form video post a Reel, the company is looking for ways to make them easier to share. Instagram is now playing with a new feature that lets you view a list of Reels you recently shared—just in case they were so good, you want to spread them around even more.

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Social media services have generally been free of charge for users, but now, with ad revenues slowing down, social media companies are looking for new revenue streams beyond targeted ads.

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Facebook and Instagram influencers are losing access to a big moneymaking program that was previously paying out thousands of dollars per vid. It was an effort to get more Instagram users interested in watching the social network’s short-form video format Reels.

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While Twitter deals with daily chaos and mounting debt, its biggest competitors are thinking they can do tweet storms even better than the ol’ blue bird. On Friday, Meta confirmed that it was working on a new stand-alone app for sharing Twitter-like messages.

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As the role of artificial intelligence appears to continue growing in our daily lives, it’s taking people’s likeness along with it. This week, hundreds of deepfaked videos featuring faces that looked exactly like Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson ran across Facebook and Instagram as part of an apparent advertising…

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If you couldn’t get enough of paying for content that was once free, get ready for some of your favorite TikTok creators to start asking you to cough up money before accessing some of their videos.

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