In the News (#1656)

This technology is a free, easily accessible weapon put into the hands of the worst people in the world. – “Jane Doe 4” Shame, Shame (#1504) It’s only a year since Zuckerberg was forced by public outcry to cancel this: [Facebook has] launched its inaugural [CGI] model…in…[an] effort to compete with the likes of…GPT Images…and Google’s [moronically-named] Nano Banana 2 in the [slop] race [to the bottom]. The new model, called Muse Image, [has been embedded like a tick] into the Instagram app…public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being [slop] fodder for [strangers. In a typical display of cluelessness, Zuckerberg is trying to sell this as a good thing]…If you want to avoid [your personal pictures being turned into creepy cartoon porn], you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings… Facebook has already backed down (again) after being threatened with lawsuits from celebrities’ agents. Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#1550) Blaming bad behavior on an imaginary…