Social Media’s “Big Tobacco” Moment?

The big ruling from that big social media trial is in and it could have big implications for big tech going forward. Wikipedia bans the use of AI for creating Wikipedia entries. GitHub is about to train AI on what you do on GitHub. And the idea of lossless compression might sound like a Silicon Valley joke, but it could be a big deal.

• Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial (CNBC)
• Do Back-to-Back Courtroom Losses Herald Meta’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment? (WSJ)
• Nintendo confirms its US Switch 2 games will soon cost more as physical versions (VGC)
• Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles (The Verge)
• GitHub’s Copilot will use you as AI training data, but you can opt out (How-To Geek)
• Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’ (TechCrunch)

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