*surprised Pikachu face*
｢ Yann LeCun, Meta's outgoing chief AI scientist and one of the pioneers credited with laying the groundwork for modern AI, has acknowledged that the company's Llama 4 language model had its benchmark results manipulated before its April 2025 release. In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun said the "results were fudged a little bit" and that the team "used different models for different benchmarks to give better results." ｣

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1449227/results-were-fudged-departing-meta-ai-chief-confirms-llama-4-benchmark-manipulation

#meta

*surprised Pikachu face*
｢ Yann LeCun, Meta's outgoing chief AI scientist and one of the pioneers credited with laying the groundwork for modern AI, has acknowledged that the company's Llama 4 language model had its benchmark results manipulated before its April 2025 release. In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun said the "results were fudged a little bit" and that the team "used different models for different benchmarks to give better results." ｣

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1449227/results-were-fudged-departing-meta-ai-chief-confirms-llama-4-benchmark-manipulation

#meta

U.S. Virgin Islands sues Meta over child exploitation and scam ads

https://www.ms.now/opinion/u-s-virgin-islands-sues-meta-over-child-exploitation-and-scam-ads

The U.S. Virgin Islands’ attorney general says Meta allowed its platforms to “become breeding grounds for predators who groom, solicit, and sexually exploit children.”

#Meta #children #VirginIslands #press

U.S. Virgin Islands sues Meta over child exploitation and scam ads

https://www.ms.now/opinion/u-s-virgin-islands-sues-meta-over-child-exploitation-and-scam-ads

The U.S. Virgin Islands’ attorney general says Meta allowed its platforms to “become breeding grounds for predators who groom, solicit, and sexually exploit children.”

#Meta #children #VirginIslands #press

If you're reading this, my cobbled together code is working. "Put it there!" gives me a UI to create posts on weblog.lol with optional Mastodon cross-posting.

It's a mess and just for me right now, but I will put it on source.tube at some point. I just needed an image to test with and decided to create a logo, then a full announcement poster/image thing.

#meta #omglol #tools #selfhosted

If you're reading this, my cobbled together code is working. "Put it there!" gives me a UI to create posts on weblog.lol with optional Mastodon cross-posting.

It's a mess and just for me right now, but I will put it on source.tube at some point. I just needed an image to test with and decided to create a logo, then a full announcement poster/image thing.

#meta #omglol #tools #selfhosted

⚠️ Meta on the news again for another Dieselgate scandal, Zuck will never learn.

｢ Reuters reported in November that scam ads Meta considers “high risk” generate as much as $7 billion in revenue for the company each year. This month, the news agency found that Meta tolerates rampant fraud from advertisers in China ｣

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/

#meta #cybersecurity #regulation

Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them

https://sherwood.news/tech/rather-than-fully-cracking-down-on-scam-ads-meta-worked-to-make-them-harder/

#HackerNews #Meta #Scam #Ads #Fraud #Prevention #Online #Safety #Tech #News

And it's done! #WhatsApp account deleted and the app uninstalled 🥳
I promised I would do it by the end of 2025, and I'm a man of my word. I've been prepping friends and family for 6 months.

2026 will be 100% #Meta free for me!!! woo-hoo!

You can do the same, just follow the steps of the #BigTechWalkout2025 at https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/

#bigtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #ethicaltech

Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/

#HackerNews #Meta #Scammers #Playbook #Pressure #SocialMedia #Safety

And it's done! #WhatsApp account deleted and the app uninstalled 🥳
I promised I would do it by the end of 2025, and I'm a man of my word. I've been prepping friends and family for 6 months.

2026 will be 100% #Meta free for me!!! woo-hoo!

You can do the same, just follow the steps of the #BigTechWalkout2025 at https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/

#bigtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #ethicaltech

cool thingy to share off-fedi!!!

https://allpunkspleaseleavemeta.com

#punk #PunkRock #meta #threads #FediPact

A friend grabbed this video off of Instagram, because they made this video impossible to see without logging in. I wonder why? 🙄

We are #antifa

#ResINT #ArtFED #Antifascist #meta #instagram #technofascist #USA

ManusAI Joins Meta

https://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation

#HackerNews #ManusAI #Meta #Innovation #Partnership #Technology #News

Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-generating-bizarre-ads-advantage-plus-2025-10

#HackerNews #Meta #Ads #AI #Generated #Ads #Advertising #Technology #Digital #Marketing

RE: https://mainz.social/@feuerwehr_mainz_bot/115803947221446423

„Betrieben werden offizielle Auftritte auf Facebook und Instagram unter dem Accountnamen @feuerwehr.mainz. Ergänzend wird ein WhatsApp Kanal für die Krisenkommunikation eingerichtet“

Also Kriseninformationen wieder nur über Social Media Plattformen von Meta 🙄

#Mainz #FeuerwehrMainz #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp

A friend grabbed this video off of Instagram, because they made this video impossible to see without logging in. I wonder why? 🙄

We are #antifa

#ResINT #ArtFED #Antifascist #meta #instagram #technofascist #USA

A remarkably prophetic 1923 cartoon depicting how a creative process would be automated in 2023.

#cartoon #tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude