Prevalence of AI Slop on TikTok

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You can preorder a pair of specs now at specs. com with a two hundred dollars refundable deposit And Snap says they're expected to ship this fall in the US UK and France. This is a big moment for Snap. The company made a big entry into smmart gllasses with its original spectacles in twenty sixteen, and the company has been toiling away on Non public AR versions of spectacles over the past few years. CEO Evan Spiegel promised the company would launch consumer AR glasses in twenty twenty six and even turned its smart gllasses team into a separate business The company says that specs are fully standalone with no puck and no tether, which is perhaps a jab at Apple's Vision Pro, which is tethered to a separate battery pack They'll be offered in two sizes, a forty seven millimeter model weighing one hundred and thirty two grams and a fifty two millimeter model weighing one hundred and thirty six grams, and will have removable inserts that Snap says will support a wide range of prescriptions You probably won't mistake specs with their wide bold frames for any of Meta Smart glasses. Snap clearly picked a design that it wants to stand out They're not my style. I don't think I can pull off the snow goggles, but fashionable look, though maybe Johnny Ive might like them They have visible light and infrared cameras, and while the specs are recording, a little LED bar will glow in the middle of the glasses Both of the lenses will be able to show you content, and Snap says that its display system is powered by a proprietary liquid crystal on silicon technology that offers a fifty one degree field of view and can show sixteen million colors The lenses can also go from clear to tinted in ten seconds, Snap says. The specs have two Snapdragon processors on board, and while Snap isn't specifying exactly which ones they are, the company says that one is focused on computer vision whileile the other is focused on running AR lenses. Together, they enable fast hand tracking, low latency, and responsive interactions that help digital content feel anchored in the real world, Snap says You can also expect up to four hours of battery life on a charge, which Snap says accounts for things like audio and video playback, AI assistance, Bluetooth notifications, and more. The specs come with a charging case that Snap says will offer four more charges for a total of twenty hours of battery During his keynote at the AWE twenty twenty six conference, CEO Evan Spiegel noted that you can charge the specs with a cable that snaps magnetically to the side of the glasses. And if you plug in the other side of that cable to something like a phone, computer, or gaming device, you can stream content from those devices and display it in your specs. Specs could be interesting, but we haven't tried them ourselves yet, so we can't vouch for what it's like to actually use them day to day. And we don't know how specs actually hold up as a product that sits in between something like Meta's Rayand smart glasses, which have been a hit and the Vision Pro, which has not, end quote Google has launched Android seventeen and WareOS seven available first on Pixel devices with support for the latest AI models Bubble bar UI and live updates on WareOS Coting tech wrench. In today's Pixel Drop Android Quickhares file sharing feature will become compatible with Apple's Airdrop. pixel, eight A and nine A devices. Plus, Gemini Omni will let you edit videos in a conversation while Lya three lets users create music tracks with text prompts and or images in the Gemini app. Pixel ten A devices will also get better speech to speech translation tools with Audio LM. Other phone features are arriving too, such as the ability to record a personalized outgoing audio message for callers when you can't answer. Plus the take a message feature will arrive in more global markets The pixel drop brings emergency detection features to the Google Pixel watchatch as well, meaning that if the watch detects a car crash, fall, or lack of pulse, it will automatically contact emergency services and your selected emergency contacts Beyond AI, Android seventeen's larger update allows users to take advantage of features like a bubble bar which is a new user interface element that lets you organize, move, and then quickly access recent apps that appear as bubbles at the bottom of your screen The feature is designed to help speed up app interactions and aid in multi app workflows. Social media users may like Android seventeen's new feature that lets them record themselves with the selfie camera and phone screens simultaneously for screen reaction videos that can be shared on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and others. Meanwhile, watch owners can now receive live updates from phone apps that mirror to the Pixel watch. Smart watchatches will also work better with Google's upcoming AI glasses and other hardware such as headphones. This summer, WOS will introduce more Gemini intelligence features like tools for making personalized widgets just by describing them, and it will be able to offer personal intelligence by connecting your Google apps and chat history with Gemini and quote. According to Semaphore, Trump officials have discussed how to structure government equity stakes in AI companies again Two top cabinet members had discussed different ideas. peopleople familiar with the talks told Semaphore Treasury Secretary Sct Besscentt favored using equity in AI firms to cede Trump accounts Well Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnk's preference, was that any equity be directed to a type of sovereign wealth fund? The talks about possible AI stakes ceded to the government are still in the early stages with no decision made yet. And a meeting with industry CEOs that President Donald Trump previewed earlier this month has yet to emerge. Given that, it's still unclear where the Trump administration could ultimately land on an idea that remains an extremely tough sell for most of the industry beyond Op AI, which first pitched it last year. Executives at firms like Microsoft and Meta have turned a cold shoulder in the last week alone Both Secretary's preferences have also been floated at various times by openAye and anthropic. Sam Altman initially envisioned funneling AI returns to Americans via a hybrid of the Alaska Permanent fund and Trump accounts, a person familiar with the talks told Semaphore, An anthropic flicked at sovereign wealth funds and pre distributive capital accounts like Trump accounts in a new policy framework released last week Yet any AI seed Soign Weealth fund would require significant work to flesh out given that administration officials abandoned the broader concept last year amid concerns over the national debt Lutnik, who's since negotiated other government stakes in companies in a coordinated effort to secure critical mineral supply chains, has also discussed a national and economic security fund Housing investments made by Japan and South Korea as part of trade deals with the US While firms like Intel have accepted grants from the US government in exchange for stakes, experts question whether a similar arrangement could fly in the AI industry. Its higher valuations mean the government would have to spend more to make an equity stake a potential play The American Enterprise Institute's Will Reinhard said, an alternative, like a one time tax would need to be enacted by a largely skeptical Congress. There's also the question of how the firms, many of which spend their profits rather than pay them to shareholders would even be able to pay returns to Americans via a government stake My expectation is that we're not going to have dividends in any normal sense for a very long time, Reinhart said. So if you're Taking some sort of equity share, what does that even mean? end quote You know how after a meeting you end up spending too much time trying to piece everything together, going back through notes, trying to remember what was actually said? It adds up fast, but that's where Plaod Note Pro comes in. 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The devices should help provide a tailwind to the company during its first full year under Chief Executive Officer John Ternus, who takes the reins september first All three products reached advanced stages of development in recent months Bloomberg News reported in May that work on the new airPods had accelerated with prototypes now featuring near final hardware and software The new AirPods are designed to be Apple's first AI focus wearable product. The device's computer vision cameras won't be intended to capture photos and video. inststead, they'll act as sensors that feed visual context into Siri The goal is to let users ask seri questions about objects and the surrounding environment Someone looking at a collection of ingredients, for example, could ask what to make for dinner The airPods codenamed B seven hundred ninety eight were originally slated for release in twenty twenty six, according to the people. The deadline slipped in part because of Apple's prolonged struggles with artificial intelligence software The company also had to develop visual AI models capable of identifying objects in a user's surroundings The camera AirPods will help solidify Apple's push into what it calls visual intelligence, technology that can analyze images and provide instant context. The company has already made Visual intelligence a focal point of its new Siri and IOS twenty seven, bringing the function into its camera app The new earbuds will closely resemble current AirPods proro models apart from the cameras embedded in the STEMs. There are also external lights to indicate to people around the wearer when data is being sent from the earbuds to the cloud for processing Apple has also explored using the cameras to provide contextual reminders and improve navigation during turn by turn walking directions The AirPods are part of a broader push into AI devices with Apple planning to release its first smart glasses as early as the tail end of next year That product, codenamed N fifty, is designed to rival offerings from Meta and will include more advanced cameras that can take photos and video. Work on the AirPods remains further along though. The company is also considering making an AI focus pendant with a camera that can be worn on clothes or as a necklace Apple's push into foldable phones, meanwhile, will kick off in September with its first model in that market. Bloomberg News has reported, and quote According to a Wd press survey, sixty percent of U.S. consumers say AI in a brand's messaging is a turnoff. eighty six percent of Americans or I guess, consumers, Always or sometimes check the original source after seeing an AI summary Coting teech Wrench P the report, sixty percent of consumers in the US. say that brands that use AI and their messaging are a turnoff and eighty six percent don't fully trust AI and still want to explore original sources. Notably, forty two percent of consumers said that AI generated answers without clear attribution are trusted less than Airline fees, confusing privacy policies or medical bills. Nearly three in four respondents said the internet feels less human than it did ten years ago. Together, the findings paint a picture of a rapidly evolving digital landscape where brands are trying to adapt to a world beyond Google search and traditional SEO while also balancing the need to appear human authored or risk losing their audience. As companies invest more in making their brand visible to AI search engines, consumers are placing greater value on transparency and attribution People used to build websites for other people, said Brian Alvi, CTO of WordPress VIP, in a statement shared alongside the new report. Now you have to build websites for AI agents acting on behalf of those people. If your site's content isn't legible to AI, you are invisible to a growing share of how people search. You don't exist. And if your content doesn't feel human and trustworthy for the tiny percentage of people who actually click past the AI answer engines They won't come back a second time The report is based on a survey of two thousand respondents conducted in April, comprising eight hundred enterprise decision makers and CMOs and twelve hundred US adults. Despite consumers wariness about AI, the report also found that AI referrals to sites were growing. sixty percent of enterprise respondents said that traffic from AI search engines and answer platforms increased over the past year, and seventy four percent of enterprise decision makers AI discoverability and attribution are a main or significant priority. WordPress VIP says the findings point to a future where brands will have to navigate both AI visibility and human trust simultaneously The report found that thirty three percent of consumers said clicking through to see an original source is still their top trust signal, and eighty percent said information on the web should remain openly accessible rather than controlled by a small number of large organizations. end quote And fininally today, a bit of a shot and chaser with that last segment and this one What if there is three times more AI slap on TikTok as there is on, say, YouTube Coding search engine journal About fifty nine percent of TikTok videos served to a new accounts for you feed. are now AI slap according to a report from Capwing, the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Capwing found on YouTube The company manually reviewed over ten thousand TikTok videos across twenty categories and ran a separate fresh account test counting AI generated content in the first five hundred for you videos Cap Wing ran the same fresh account tests on YouTube and found that only one hundred and four of the first five hundred shorts are only twenty one percent where AI slap there on TikTok two hundred and ninety four of the five hundred for you videos hit that threshold Of the two thousand videos Capwing reviewed in TikTok's kids category, fifty seven percent were AI slap. That was the highest rate of any category in the analysis. The highest rate tag was cartoon kids where ninety seven of one hundred featured videos that were AI generated. Tags like hashtag cartoons or hashtag Baby Song both reached eighty three percent and hashtag four kids came in at seventy nine percent After kids, the highest AI slap rates were in science and education, at thirty five percent, health, at thirty three percent and history, at thirty three percent. All three are categories where visual illustration and voiceover narration make up much of the content On the other end, categories where on camera presence or physical demonstration are central had the lowest rates. Fashion came in at a mere one point three percent, music at one point five percent, and fitness at one point six percent. TikTok has added user controls for AI content, but data suggests that what new users see by default still leans heavily toward AI generated videos, end quote I was in the city last evening and I kept running into Scotland fans wearing the kit, wearing their kilts. It was great. I kept asking the least inebrated ones of them for pictures. It was fun stuff. talk to you tomorrow