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TL;DR Snap stops recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, joining LinkedIn and YouTube in a wider crackdown on AI slop Snapchat will no longer recommend wholly AI-generated videos on its Spotlight feed. The change, effective this month, updates the platform’s recommendation systems to prioritise what the company calls “authentic, human-made content.” Users can still upload AI-generated videos, but those videos will no longer be surfaced to people who do not already follow the creator. The move is an escalation of a policy Snap outlined in April under the banner “Still Spotlight, But Still Real,” which signalled that the platform would begin favouring original content. The company says the number of unique Spotlight contributors globally has grown more than 120 percent compared to last year, a figure it is framing as evidence that human creators are already choosing the platform. Snap drew a deliberate line between AI as a replacement and AI as a tool. Content that has been enhanced or edited using Snapchat’s own AI creative features will remain eligible for recommendation, and those posts will carry transparency indicators showing that AI was involved. The distinction is between a video made entirely by a machine and one where a human

Social media has been hit hard by the AI slop boom. No matter what platform you use—X, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, or LinkedIn—it's hard to avoid. Now, Snapchat is banning videos that are wholly AI-generated from appearing as recommendations on its Spotlight tab. Spotlight shows the top short-form vertical video content from the entire Snapchat community, regardless of who you follow. This doesn't mean creators who are using AI as just one part of their creative process are banned from appearing in Spotlight entirely. Content that has been enhanced or edited using Snapchat's AI creative tools will remain eligible for recommendation; it's only wholly AI-made videos that will be banned. "As low-quality, repetitive, AI-generated content becomes increasingly common across the internet, we want Spotlight to remain a place where people can discover authentic creativity from real people," Snapchat says. Snapchat is by no means the only social media platform making these kinds of moves. Earlier this month, blogging platform Substack introduced an integration with AI writing detection tool Pangram to help users spot likely AI-generated text. They coined the term "claudefishing," a reference to Anthropic's chatbot Claude, in which writers try to pass off an LLM's work as their own.

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, said on Friday it will stop recommending wholly AI-generated videos in its Spotlight feed and will ...

5 hours ago Kali Hays Technology reporter Reuters Snapchat is trying to tamp down on AI-generated videos. Snapchat has joined the likes of YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in a growing effort to combat fake writing, images and videos that are entirely created by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Such content, commonly called "AI slop", has proliferated online as the tech industry has raced to create a greater number of easier to use generative AI tools that can create anything from essays to realistic videos. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, said on Friday that the platform would stop recommending "wholly AI-generated videos" in its popular Spotlight feed in favour of "authentic, human-made content." Over the past two weeks, YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack have unveiled similar strategies. Snap did not go so far as to try and prohibit all AI-generated content from Snapchat. The platform offers its own AI tools to alter content, and so AI "enhanced or edited" content will still be part of its recommendations to users. However, Snap acknowledged that entirely AI-generated content is typically "low-quality", "repetitive", and generally not what Snapchat users want to see. Recent research into the reception of AI-generated content shows that people tend to

There’s nothing more humbling than walking into a nightclub and realising that you are your friends are the oldest people in the crowd. It seems ridiculous to say it that at 22, but 18-year-olds genuinely view us as ancient monuments. They’ll say hurtful things like: “Wait…no way, you don’t look 22”, and smile like they’ve just made the OAP on the dancefloor feel better about herself. I get it, I used to look at people who had finished college as these fully formed beings, so mature and world-wise. I can confirm, being at this stage of life is not as glamorous as I had pictured it being, as a gentle teen. It’s less martinis and contributing to your pension, more struggling to keep tabs on which country each of your friends is moving to. I often think that I am no different than a teen, and then I talk to one and realise how desperately uncool I have become over the years. The disjunction is glaring when I walk into the wrong nightclub, yes. But nothing will make me feel my age as much as my relationship with social media. I am now at an age where it feels wrong

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A BC Supreme Court judge in Prince George has reserved decision about an application by the company behind Snapchat to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of a 12-year-old boy who died of suicide after using the app in 2023. “I'll provide written reasons in due course,” Justice Ronald Tindale said on Wednesday, July 29, after hearing arguments for a day and a half. Nicola Smith and Ryan Cleland sued Snap Inc. last October for negligence, failure to warn and negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation. Their son, Carson, took his own life on Oct. 12, 2023 after a sextortionist contacted him on the social media app. Their lawyer, Claire Hunter, said that, in the course of exchanges with the defendants since October, the plaintiffs have been “completely open with Snap about the information that they have.” “What is clear on the record, Snap has not done the same,” Hunter said. Hunter emphasized Snap’s lack of response to the notice of civil claim. Instead, it filed the application to strike the lawsuit entirely. The California company’s Toronto law firm, Torys LLP, argued it should be thrown out due to alleged gaps and flaws. In court on Wednesday, July 28, defence lawyer

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The lawyer for the parents of a Prince George boy who died of suicide after a 2023 sextortion said July 28 that the California company behind Snapchat is trying to escape accountability for failing to protect children from sexual predators. In BC Supreme Court in Prince George, Claire Hunter opposed the application by lawyers for Snap Inc. to dismiss Nicola Smith and Ryan Cleland’s lawsuit against the social media company. Smith and Cleland’s 12-year-old son, Carson, took his own life on Oct. 12, 2023 after falling prey to online sexual extortion. Last October’s notice of civil claim seeks damages for negligence, failure to warn and negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation. But Hunter said Snap, which reported US$5.9 billion revenue last year, wants to strike the claim and dismiss the action rather than file a statement of defence. “(Snap) has attempted to cut it off at the knees, at this early stage of the proceeding, by filing this motion, by declining to plead or to make discovery of what it knows about the circumstances leading to Carson's death,” Hunter told Justice Ronald Tindale. “Instead, pursuing this application, Snap seeks to deny these grieving parents access to the truth-seeking function of the trial

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