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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Wants to Show You More YouTube Ads When You Pause Videos  Gizmodo Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]OpenAI and Google reportedly used transcriptions of YouTube videos to train their AI models  Engadget Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google  Mashable Source link

YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any videos or tips on what to watch. Before, even in incognito mode or when not logged in, Google would still show you video suggestions. Now, users see a message saying “Get Started” and “Start… Source link

A Google sign in front of an office at Google headquarters on Dec. 19, 2023, in Mountain View, Calif. The company poured resources into artificial intelligence research in 2023. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google is paying to collect video footage of 13- to 17-year-old children and studying their skin tones and eyelid shapes, according to a Thursday report from 404 Media. The outlet cited a “Facial Video Data Collection Project” web page run by Canadian tech corporation Telus… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Photos Now Lets You Create Highlight Videos  Droid Life Source link

For years, YouTube has been accused of enabling terrorist recruitment. This allegedly happens when a user clicks on a terrorist video hosted on the platform, then spirals down a rabbit hole of extremist content automatically queued “up next” through YouTube’s recommendation engine. In 2016, the family of Nohemi Gonzalez—who was killed in a 2015 Paris terrorist attack after extremists allegedly relied… Source link

AI’s creative abilities are outstripping its driving skills. While self-driving car technology is going nowhere, there’s been a remarkable explosion in research around generative models, or artificial intelligence systems that can create images from simple text. In just the past week, AI researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have taken an extraordinary leap forward, developing systems that can generate videos with just about any text prompt one can… Source link

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline‘s public war of words took an even more personal turn on Wednesday night. Federline posted videos of the singer seemingly yelling at their sons — Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15 — four years ago. Yahoo Entertainment viewed the clips, which appear to be from two separate incidents, before Federline deleted the post. “I can not sit back and let my sons be accused in this way after what they’ve been through,” Spears’s ex-husband wrote on Instagram…. Source link

Russia imposed a nearly $365 million fine (21.1 billion rubles) on Google for failing to delete YouTube videos that go against the country’s laws, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a translated press release, Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor states that YouTube didn’t follow orders to remove “prohibited content,” which includes videos “promoting extremism and terrorism,” as well as supposedly false information about the war in Ukraine. In March, the Roskomnadzor… Source link