Policymakers take on AI, deepfakes and Meta’s effects on kids
Marketplace All-in-One
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This week, Marketplace Tech is introducing a new regular Friday segment called Bytes: a week in review, where we’ll dive into the major news stories of the week, giving you the context and information you need. And what a week it’s been in the tech industry! Disarray in Congress disrupts plans to deal with deepfakes ahead of the 2024 election. Also, the White House prepares an executive order on artificial intelligence, set for release as soon as next week. But the biggest tech headline of the week? Dozens of states are suing Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta for allegedly harming the mental health of its young users with “addictive” features aiming at keeping kids on their various social media sites at the risk of their well-being. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios for her take on those stories.
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| 0:00.0 | This week we're introducing a new regular Friday segment, a week in review that we're calling |
| 0:26.1 | Marketplace Tech Bites, and it has been a week for the tech sector. The White House is preparing |
| 0:32.2 | an executive order on artificial intelligence set for release as early as Monday. This, as |
| 0:38.1 | disarray in Congress, has disrupted plans to deal with deep fakes in the 2024 election. |
| 0:44.0 | And, dozens of states are suing Facebook and Instagram's parent Metta, alleging the company |
| 0:49.9 | is harming the mental health of young users. Those are the stories we're discussing today on Marketplace |
| 0:55.6 | Tech Bites Weekend Review. Of course, I can't do this by myself, so we'd call that Maria Curie, |
| 1:01.6 | Tech Policy Reporter at Axios for her take on those stories. She started by explaining some of |
| 1:07.3 | the social media features called out in the federal complaint against Metta. |
| 1:12.1 | These are essentially psychologically manipulative features. So, for example, when you're scrolling |
| 1:18.1 | through your Instagram or Facebook, you notice that it's an endless scroll. There's no bottom |
| 1:22.9 | to that. So, that is something that could keep you on that platform for a really long time. |
| 1:27.7 | There's also, and this I definitely can attest to as I think all of us could, is just the constant |
| 1:33.3 | alerts and the notifications, and picking and choosing which ones we want to get can get confusing. |
| 1:39.2 | So, for the most part, you are just getting a lot of alerts and notifications throughout the day. |
| 1:43.9 | And then, the last feature that is kind of seen as psychologically manipulative are the way |
| 1:49.7 | these algorithms can push consumers into rabbit holes of certain content that can be toxic. |
| 1:57.2 | So, for young users, that could mean things that encourage body dysmorphia and body image issues. |
| 2:03.6 | And then, when you think about a platform like Instagram, you're kind of inherently comparing yourself |
| 2:10.0 | to other people on the platform, which is something that especially young people can be more prone to. |
| 2:15.6 | And you have tools like filters or likes that could also add to those body image issues. |
| 2:21.9 | Right, these visual filter features in the spotlight here. The issue of intent seems pretty |
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