Open-Source App Pixelfed Aims to Recapture What Made Instagram Fun

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]

Tired of Your Instagram Feed? ‘Recommendations Reset’ Will Make the Algo Start Fresh

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]

Mark Zuckerberg Showed New Tech That Uses AI to Fully Recreate People

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]

Instagram is Changing How It Labels AI Content, Again

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.

Instagram Changes ‘Made with AI’ Label to ‘AI Info’ After Widespread Backlash

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]

Instagram is Testing Unskippable Ads

In a move almost certain to anger users, Instagram is reportedly testing a feature that makes ads "unskippable."

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