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OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal
Stuff posted on Reddit is getting incorporated into ChatGPT, Reddit and OpenAI announced on Thursday. The new partnership grants OpenAI access to Redditβs Data API, giving the generative AI firm real-time access to Reddit posts.
Reddit content will be incorporated into ChatGPT "and new products," Reddit's blog post said. The social media firm claims the partnership will "enable OpenAIβs AI tools to better understand and showcase Reddit content, especially on recent topics." OpenAI will also start advertising on Reddit.
The deal is similar to one that Reddit struck with Google in February that allows the tech giant to make "new ways to display Reddit content" and provide "more efficient ways to train models," Reddit said at the time. Neither Reddit nor OpenAI disclosed the financial terms of their partnership, but Reddit's partnership with Google was reportedly worth $60 million.
Taiwan, on Chinaβs Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way
US teen with heart condition died after eating spicy tortilla chip, autopsy finds
Tenth-grader who participated in social media challenge ingested too much chile pepper extract and died of cardiopulmonary arrest
A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract and also had a congenital heart defect, according to autopsy results obtained by the Associated Press.
Harris Wolobah, a 10th grader from the city of Worcester, died on 1 September 2023 after eating the Paqui chip as part of the manufacturerβs βOne Chip Challengeβ.
Continue reading...Bumble apologizes for ads shaming women into sex
For the past decade, the dating app Bumble has claimed to be all about empowering women. But under a new CEO, Lidiane Jones, Bumble is now apologizing for a tone-deaf ad campaign that many users said seemed to channel incel ideology by telling women to stop denying sex.
"You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer,β one Bumble billboard seen in Los Angeles read. "Thou shalt not give up on dating and become a nun," read another.
Bumble HQ
β Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD (@arghavan_salles) May 14, 2024
βWe donβt have enough women on the app.β
βTheyβd rather be alone than deal with men.β
βShould we teach men to be better?β
βNo, we should shame women so they come back to the app.β
βYes! Letβs make them feel bad for choosing celibacy. Great idea!β pic.twitter.com/115zDdGKZo
Bumble intended these ads to bring "joy and humor," the company said in an apology posted on Instagram after the backlash on social media began.
Met forced to respond to rumours of nails glued to playground equipment
Force says no confirmed incidents in London as rumours spread on social media after nails found at Oxfordshire playground
The Metropolitan police have been forced to respond to rumours circulating online that nails have been stuck to childrenβs playground equipment, saying there have been no confirmed incidents in London.
In recent days parentsβ WhatsApp groups have been inundated with reports that vandals have glued nails to childrenβs slides and other playground equipment.
Continue reading...EU Investigates Facebook and Instagram Over Addictive Effects on Children
On Instagram, a Jewelry Ad Draws Solicitations for Sex With a 5-Year-Old
Elon Muskβs Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.
TikTok Ban β ByteDance Sues US to Kill Bill
PAFACA SueTok: U.S. Courts βlikelyβ to rule whether new law is constitutionalβor even practical.
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- Tracing what went wrong in 2012 for todayβs teens, with Dr. Jean Twenge: Lock and Code S04E10
Tracing what went wrong in 2012 for todayβs teens, with Dr. Jean Twenge: Lock and Code S04E10
This week on the Lock and Code podcastβ¦
Youβve likely felt it: The dull pull downwards of a smartphone scroll. The βfive more minutesβ just before bed. The sleep still there after waking. The edges of your calm slowly fraying.
After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be β¦ not so great. Obviously, the effects of this are compounded by the fact that the internet that was built after the invention of the smartphone is a very different internet than the one beforeβsupercharged with algorithms that get you to click more, watch more, buy more, and rest so much less.
But for one group, in particular, across the world, the impact of smartphones and constant social media may be causing an unprecedented mental health crisis: Young people.
According to the American College Health Association, the percentage of undergraduates in the USβso, mainly young adults in collegeβwho were diagnosed with anxiety increased 134% since 2010. In the same time period for the same group, there was in increase in diagnoses of depression by 106%, ADHD by 72%, bipolar by 57%, and anorexia by 100%.
Thatβs not all. According to a US National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the prevalence of anxiety in America increased for every age group except those over 50, again, since 2010. Those aged 35 β 49 experienced a 52% increase, those aged 26 β 34 experienced a 103% increase, and those aged 18 β 25 experienced a 139% increase.
This data, and much more, was cited by the social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt, in debuting his latest book, βThe Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.β In the book, Haidt examines what he believes is a mental health crisis unique amongst todayβs youth, and he proposes that much of the crisis has been brought about by a change in childhoodβaway from a βplay-basedβ childhood and into a βphone-basedβ one.
This shift, Haidt argues, is largely to blame for the increased rates of anxiety, depression, suicidality, and more.
And rather than just naming the problem, Haidt also proposes five solutions to turn things around:
- Give children far more time playing with other children.Β
- Look for more ways to embed children in stable real-world communities.Β Β
- Donβt give a smartphone as the first phone.
- Donβt give a smartphone until high school.Β Β
- Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least).
But while Haidtβs proposals may feel rightβhis book has spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller listβsome psychologists disagree.
Writing for the outlet Platformer, reporter Zoe Schiffer spoke with multiple behavioral psychologists who alleged that Haidtβs book cherry-picks survey data, ignores mental health crises amongst adults, and over-simplifies a complex problem with a blunt solution.Β Β
Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with Dr. Jean Twenge to get more clarity on the situation: Is there a mental health crisis amongst todayβs teens? Is it unique to their generation? And can it really be traced to the use of smartphones and social media?
According to Dr. Twenge, the answer to all those questions is, pretty much, βYes.β But, she said, thereβs still some hope to be found.
βThis is where the argument around smartphones and social media being behind the adolescent mental health crisis actually has, kind of paradoxically, some optimism to it. Because if thatβs the cause, that means we can do something about it.β
Tune in today to listen to the full conversation.
Show notes and credits:
Intro Music: βSpellboundβ by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Outro Music: βGood Godβ by Wowa (unminus.com)
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