A new social media app called BeFake AI wants to take a legitimate approach to self-expression by using a phone’s cameras and photos to produce AI-assisted creative images. [Read More]
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A new photo app called "Firsties" is designed to help parents safely share their kids' photos amid rising child privacy concerns on social media. [Read More]
A new photo sharing app called Flashes is about to be rolled out and it is closely linked with the Twitter alternative Bluesky. [Read More]
Instagram alternative Pixelfed launched a mobile app last week on Android and landed on iOS today. The decentralized, ad-free, and open-source platform, which aims to offer "a fresh take on photo sharing," has surged in popularity and even run afoul of Meta moderation. [Read More]
Instagram will soon roll out a new feature globally that will allow everyone on Instagram to perform a "Recommendations reset," which makes the algorithm forget everything it thinks it knows about you and start from scratch. [Read More]
Today at Meta Connect, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person. [Read More]
Earlier this year, Meta -- parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- said it would be adding a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI.
After saying it was evaluating adjusting its policy last week, Meta today announced that it is making changes to how it handles what it calls "manipulated media" going forward, adjusting the "Made with AI" label that appears on Instagram to "AI Info" instead. [Read More]