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Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

Futurism

as an arms-length testing groundwhere it could quietly research the impact of human-like companion bots on the public, kids included. The teen at the heart of the Florida case, Sewell Setzer III, was just 14 years old when, in February 2024, he died of suicideafter developing an intense obsession with Character.AI Despite shoveling $2.7

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Facebook says Instagram is not ‘toxic for teens,’ despite damning WSJ report

The Verge

On September 14 The Wall Street Journa l published a story to The Facebook Files, which is a series of stories based around an enormous cache of internal Facebook documents leaked to the newspaper. Raychoudhury ignores many of the issues raised in the WSJ piece, including that teens claimed they felt addicted to Instagram.

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Roblox goes public so that it can build a bigger metaverse

The Verge

The company behind the hit kids game Roblox is going public after soaring use during the pandemic. Roblox has been around since 2004, but the game nearly doubled its daily users over the last nine months as it’s provided a social space where its users — mostly kids and teens — can hang out while stuck inside. Image: Roblox.

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

Oyo is ready to explore the public markets. The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 SoftBank plans to sell stakes worth over $175 million, Oyo said in the filing.

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This is Facebook’s internal research on the mental health effects of Instagram

The Verge

The Wall Street Journal reported that the files showed Instagram knew the social media network has a negative affect on teens’ mental health. Facebook has pushed back on the WSJ’s characterizations of its research, saying that “it is simply not accurate that this research demonstrates Instagram is ‘toxic’ for teen girls.”.

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Why Facebook should release the Facebook Files

The Verge

The company’s least-bad option might also do a lot of good The fallout from The Wall Street Journal ’s Facebook Files series continues. For others, the Facebook Files have been a welcome opportunity to discuss their greatest fear. In the internal divisions over the Facebook Files, though, I find another echo of Cambridge Analytica.

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Cinematic Insights: The Art of Movie Analytics

Tableau

View Zach’s data viz portfolio on Tableau Public—including several visualizations on movies. My first Tableau Public viz was film-centric. I used the dataset in Tableau to generate a JSON file that described the relationships between these groups of actors and their various films.

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