Los Angeles | Mark Zuckerberg told a jury on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) that he overruled concerns about teen wellbeing from staff and 18 experts to lift a ban on Instagram beauty filters because he was concerned about “free expression”.
The billionaire social media boss faced a grilling in a Los Angeles court as he battles a landmark legal claim that social media is addictive for children.
Instagram temporarily suspended beauty filters – which digitally alter people’s appearance – to conduct a review of the features in 2019. All of the 18 experts Meta hired concluded they presented a wellbeing issue.
Zuckerberg told the court there was a “high bar” for demonstrating harm, calling the restrictions “paternalistic” and “overbearing”, adding he “wanted to err on the side of people being able to express themselves” in making the decision.
This blood-curdling film warns us about the future of mankind. Ignore it at your peril
A time-traveller from 50 years hence tries to prevent an AI apocalypse in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
It’s enormously satisfying that a film about a crazed prophecy sent back to us from humankind’s nightmarish future should itself look, sound and behave so much like one. Watch out, because into the February box-office lull blusters this riotous and blood-curdlingly timely science fiction satire about homo sapiens’ last stand against imminent AI dominion.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is the first film from Gore Verbinski since his handsome, sprawling, frustrating gothic horror A Cure for Wellness in 2016, and the original Pirates of the Caribbean director has clearly spent the intervening decade sharpening his cutlass.
Its hero, of sorts, is a nameless time-traveller, played by Sam Rockwell, who lands in the present from around half a century hence. He bears a dire warning for, well, us: the algorithmic and generative artificial intelligence that’s keeping us glued to our devices is about to advance to a level that sets a sort of content-led apocalypse in motion, unless its powers can be curbed that very night.
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