VR Fail? Meta Will Lay Off Employees In Metaverse Unit On Wednesday There was a time during the Covid pandemic when Mark Zuckerberg''s metaverse was supposed to change everything. But with workers returning to the office and the pandemic over, the metaverse has become an epic failure. Meta''s Reality Labs division, working on its virtual reality tech, laid off workers and reduced spending earlier this year in what Zuckerberg has called the "year of efficiency." Reuters reports, citing multiple sources, that Reality Labs'' division focused on creating high-tech chips for virtual reality devices will slash its workforce on Wednesday. Employees found out about the layoffs in an internal work chat on Tuesday. The message said Meta would notify workers about their job status early Wednesday morning, according to the source. Reuters could not determine the number of layoffs in the Facebook Agile Silicon Team, or FAST, unit, which has 600 employees developing custom chips to equip Meta''s VR devices.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge While the AI industry has focused on making its algorithms less biased based on the lightness or darkness of people’s skin tones, new research from Sony is calling for red and yellow skin hues to also be taken into account. In a paper published last month , authors William Thong and Alice Xiang from Sony AI, as well as Przemyslaw Joniak from the University of Tokyo, put forward a more “multidimensional” measurement of skin color in the hope that it might lead to more diverse and representative AI systems. Researchers have been drawing attention to skin color biases in AI systems for years, including in an important 2018 study from Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru that found AI was more prone to inaccuracies when used on darker-skinned females. In response, companies have stepped up efforts to test how accurately their systems work with a diverse range of skin tones. Google, for example, promoted the introduction of the Monk Skin Tone Scale last year, which uses a 10-point scale to measure a diverse array of skin tones ranging from dark to light.

Mark Zuckerberg ''s AI vision for Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META ) has a brewing problem – Facebook Messenger ''s AI stickers feature has no filter and is allowing users to generate stickers with questionable inputs and results. What Happened: Facebook Messenger now has AI stickers, allowing users to create personal stickers using prompts. However, this feature does not seem to have any filter and can be used to generate problematic stickers. See Also: Is MrBeast Really Giving Away 10,000 iPhone 15 Pros On TikTok? Here''s What You Need To Know An independent game developer posted several examples of Messenger AI accepting prompts like "Waluigi rifle," “child soldier,” “Trudeau buttocks” and "Pope rifle" to generate them without any filter. Ideally, Messenger should not accept prompts like these which can be misused … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Following the accelerating trend to charge users for ad-free versions of digital services, Meta is reportedly preparing to charge users in the European Union a US$14 a month fee if they do not agree to allow the tech giant to use their data to deliver targeted advertising. In plans first reported by the Wall Street […]

Meta is considering charging European users for versions of its Instagram and Facebook apps, which are currently free, to comply with European Union regulations. The technology company has proposed charging Instagram and Facebook users in Europe about $13 a month to avoid seeing ads, a source told CBS MoneyWatch. That’s roughly what competitors such as … The post Meta proposes charging monthly fee for ad-free Instagram and Facebook in Europe appeared first on Best News .

Meta plans to give European Facebook and Instagram users the option of paying for ad-free versions as a way to comply with new EU data privacy rules.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News Meta Platforms (META) is reportedly getting ready to lay off employees in the silicon unit of its Reality Labs division,…

Meta said it may offer a paid-subscription service to comply with European Union privacy rules restricting personalized ads.

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Meta and Apple have zeroed in on mixed reality headsets and augments as their next frontier. But allowing wearables to collect data about their surroundings is going to cause problems.