Meta's child safety trial dominates the day

The first week of a landmark trial against Meta has laid out its alleged strategy in stark terms, while Hollywood creatives grapple with the ethical cost of training the AI that may replace them. It's a day of reckoning for the industry's biggest players and its most vulnerable workers.

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Accountability and angst

Two stories capture the industry's moral contradictions: Meta in court, and the gig workers training their own replacements.

#01www.theguardian.comAug 22

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

Three outlets are covering the opening of this landmark trial, which accuses Meta of a four-step strategy: hook users, hold their attention, harvest data, and hide the truth. The 'four H's' framing gives prosecutors a clean narrative, but the real question is whether it sticks.

by Dara Kerr7 min readRead original

#02www.theguardian.comAug 22

‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

Multiple outlets are also picking up this Guardian piece on Hollywood writers and directors taking gigs to train AI in their own crafts, for $12 to $200 an hour. The fatalism in their voices, 'digging the grave of my profession', is the story here, not just the pay.

by Robert Booth UK technology editor6 min readRead original

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