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Mo Meta, Mo Problems: Could Facebook be broken up?

From Radio New Zealand’s “Nine To Noon“: Meta – the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and much more besides – finds itself fighting for its life against a suit from the US Federal Trade Commission, charging abuse of monopoly power – because they acquired Instagram and WhatsApp in order to neutralise up-and-coming competitors. Even in Trump’s America, that could result in the break-up of the trillion-dollar social media giant. Plus: are you up for a Day of Unplugging? No devices, no screens, for 24 hours? How about giving it a go – tomorrow? Would that excite or terrify you?

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Should we give up copyright to beat China in the race for AI?

In conversation with Radio New Zealand’s Nine To Noon host Kathryn Ryan: Christie’s held its first auction of AI-generated art, earning a million dollars. Those AI artworks had been ‘trained’ from countless images, owned by other people. Is that legal? OpenAI and Google claim that unless they have free right to use – well, basically everything everywhere ever created by humanity – to train their AI models, the Chinese will win the AI race. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s A-listers called for protection of artists and their works against what they see as copyright theft. Plus: A Clockwork Orange comes to life for prisoners in solitary confinement – and is your chatbot flattering you?