Social media companies have a bad week--especially Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. Last Wednesday, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and YouTube liable for harming a young user with features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. The verdict followed a ruling by a New Mexico jury in another case brought by the state attorney general there, which found Meta liable … Read the full Story >>
YouTube is expanding its likeness detection technology, which identifies AI-generated deepfakes, to a pilot group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists. The technology itself launched last year to roughly 4 million YouTube creators in the YouTube Partner Program, reports TechCrunch. Members of the pilot group will gain access to a tool that detects unauthorized AI-generated content and lets them request its removal if they believe it violates YouTube policy. Read the full Story >>
The 20th-century photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore never achieved artistic fame and are still under-recognized. But these two visionary, gender non-conforming artists left behind creative legacies that are still startlingly radical, notes Artnet, which spotlights the exhibition “And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth” at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis (through August 9). Cahun and Moore embraced expanded views of gender and identity in a deeply personal artistic collaboration, while defying Nazis. Read the full Story >>
The city of Louisville, KY, has agreed to pay $800,000 to cover attorney fees for a Louisville photographer who successfully challenged the city’s LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination law, reports the Louisville Courier Journal. The Christian nonprofit legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented photographer Chelsey Nelson in the case, announced the settlement on March 24. The settlement marks the end of a years-long case that began after Nelson claimed Louisville's Fairness Ordinance infringed on her constitutional rights as a Christian. Read the full Story >>
