Media Perception Of Social Workers

The alerts will start rolling out to Teen accounts with parental supervision protections next week. | Image: Meta / The Verge Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide. Meta says a similar alert system for its AI chatbots is coming later this year. The new Instagram feature sends parents an alert when their child "repeatedly tries to search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm within a short period of time." It's rolling out in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada starting next week, but it's only for parents and teens who opt in to supervision . It's expected to expand to other regions later this year. "The vast majority of teens do not try to search for suicide and … Read the full story at The Verge. * This article was originally published here

Progress towards reliable deepfake labelling tech is sluggish, despite all the “help” from AI providers. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. "Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible," Mosseri lamented . "Everything that made creators matter - the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn't be faked - is now accessible to anyone with the right tools." But people, Mosseri insisted, still wanted "content that feels real." His proposed solution was finding a way to label real media. "Camera manufacturers will cryptographically sign images at capture, creating a chain of custody," he said. The result would be a trustworthy system for determining what's not AI. The g … Read the full story at The Verge. * This article was originally published here