An Australian cryptoinfluencer promised to repay investors after being accused of losing millions trading other people's money on now-bankrupt exchange FTX
Australia's privacy watchdog won't investigate TikTok after failing to find evidence showing a "clear and obvious" breach of the Privacy Act, adding the law "urgently" needs reform.
The privacy commissioner also seems to suggest TikTok's tracking isn't out of line with other social media platforms
can't make it up: a plan to push up the minimum age of social media to 16 gets immediate support from political leaders. meanwhile a long-running campaign to increase the age of criminality to 16 has stalled.
imagine believing that children are too young for Facebook but old enough to go to jail
There's a lot to say about News Corp's new campaign but at a top level it's hard to divorce their decision to suddenly advocate for tech policy from their fury at Meta refusing to pay them and other news publishers any more. (Also remember this next time their editorials slam 'activist journalists')
The fourth most popular Facebook post by an Australian-run account in the last week is this AI generated image with 200,000+ likes, reacts and comments, according to CrowdTangle
The account has grown to 58,000 followers in a few months by posting dozens of these images a day.
this is hilarious. OpenAI, whose GPT model was trained on news publisher's data without permission, is now offering those same publishers to link back to their reporting in exchange for legal access to their back catalogue.
It's like stealing the Coca-Cola recipe, producing your own rip-off version, then offering to credit Coke in your ingredient's section on the can as long as they get access to all the company's other drink recipes too. Geez, thanks!
The Facebook post with the most interactions from Australian users in the last week is a AI generated image of children wearing vegetables shared by a WA-based antiques Facebook page (1450,000 likes, 54,000 shares). Seems like most commenters think it's real
INTERNET ETIQUETTE QUESTION: Is it cringe to crosspost? I feel like posting to multiple platforms has a bad reputation but with the splintering of Twitter's audience to Threads/Mastodon/BlueSky/LinkedIn/Twitter survivors etc. has this changed?
@camwilson I never like cross-posting. Social media is all about engagement, and cross-posting makes it very clear you're not present. There are some prominent cross-posters here that never ever respond to replies, and that makes me want to unfollow them.