“I’m not a fan of AI,” Nebojša Vujinović Vujo says. The admission surprises me: He has built a bustling business by snapping up abandoned news outlets and other websites and stuffing them full of algorithmically generated articles. Although he accepts that his model rankles writers and readers alike, he says he’s simply embracing an unstoppable …
Listen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration. We live in the age of the short attention span. And yet: Finding a recipe in a blog post requires first scrolling past a novella detailing the chef’s personal experience with the dish. Streaming shows run long, dragging into feature-film …
YouTube videos that feature breastfeeding content can now earn money on the platform, so long as they meet a certain set of criteria. The website has updated its policy to allow monetization of breastfeeding videos that show the mother’s areola, as well as those wherein the person in the video is demonstrating how to use …
Meta Platforms on Wednesday said come 2024, advertisers will have to disclose when artificial intelligence (AI) or other digital methods are used to alter or create political, social or election related advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. Meta, the world’s second-biggest platform for digital ads, said in a blog post it would require advertisers to disclose if their altered or created ads portray real people as …
YouTube is cracking down on the use of ad blocking software by increasingly forcing users of the incredibly popular video website to allow ads to run or pay for its YouTube Premium service. Until recently, ad blocking tech had worked on the Google-owned YouTube, but now warning messages are appearing and stopping videos from playing …
YouTube is no longer preventing just a small subset of its userbase from accessing its videos if they have an ad blocker. The platform has gone all out in its fight against the use of add-ons, extensions and programs that prevent it from serving ads to viewers around the world, it confirmed to Engadget. “The …
Google has added a new feature to the Play Store that allows for ads and limited-time events to be displayed in the search bar. While the inclusion of search bar ads is not necessarily surprising given Google’s dependence on advertising, the disappointing aspect of this new feature is that the suggestions appear above your recent …