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YouTube oh, it's tech news again. You wrote the script. Well, yeah, it's just I thought, you know, I don't know, maybe the computer would do something to it or, you know, like how computers like change things sometimes. Like there's a. It's like a glitch or oh, ate my homework file or, you know, like what? YouTube started rolling out that July 15th update that everyone thought was about demonetizing all AI content or reaction channels or. But no, that's all still fair game. The update was actually about better identifying mass produced and repetitious content, which, as pointed out by Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick, very often means AI slop. Like the videos posted by this account, which includes multiple reposts of AI baby videos which are reposted from another AI Slop account. I don't know, maybe the person who runs that channel actually had their baby accidentally launched into space and this is their way of processing the trauma. Who can say? But that account is gaining hundreds, thousands of subscribers every day, so it's a good thing YouTube is stepping in. The platform is making a minor update to their repetitious content policy to make it clear that when they say repetitious content, that means content that is repetitive or mass produced. You see now, when they said repetitious, they meant repetitive. Why do we have both of those words? And to make it extra clear that we're talking about repetitious content, they're renaming the policy from the repetitious policy to the inauthentic content policy. I think an AI wrote this. Great news, guys. Another company is jumping on the anti spam bandwagon too. And hilariously, it's meta. They gave an update on their efforts to combat spam, which they originally announced in April. Since then, they've taken action on around 500,000 spammy accounts and took down around 10 million profiles impersonating notable people and brands, which is impressive because Facebook doesn't seem to have gotten better at all. Xai says that Grok won't do that whole Mecha Hitler thing anymore. Or check to see what Elon said before giving its opinion on controversial topics, following some tweaks to the chatbot system prompt. And that's good, because Grok has got a prestigious new government job now in the form of a $200 million XAI contract with the Pentagon. We need like a modern Ernest Joins the Military, but it's Grok. Please blow up the comments if you get that reference, so I don't feel 103 years old. Xai also released a new Companions feature for Grok, which lets you interact with 3D avatars, including an anime girl with a not safe for work mode. Grok's Twitter account advertised how that avatar Annie can speak Japanese, leading at least one person to ask the important question of how this will help Japan have more children, something that's very important to Elon. Or it used to be. As Grok admits, this might even exacerbate the issue, but at least we're all done with the Hitler thing so Valve has delisted hundreds of adult only games from Steam after updating its developer rules to include a ban on content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam's payment processors, which traditionally do not have genitals. So it makes sense. Payment processor seems like games that are about sibling connections and non consensual stuff is the main target of the ban wave. But overall the rules here are unclear, this being the first major restriction of adult content on Steam since fully uncensored games were first allowed on the platform back in 2018. Now it's not necessarily related, but another big factor contributing to content gating like this is the UK's Online Safety act going into effect earlier this year, which has led Reddit to announce it will now verify the age of its UK users and has forced other platforms into putting age checks in place by the end of this month. Reddit insists it will only verify users agency, not identity, although it does involve sending a picture of your government ID or a selfie to the third party age verification provider Pandora. But Reddit won't see it. Pandora will hold it safely in a box that I'm sure no one will be incredibly tempted to open. But beware the temptation of our sponsor MSI and their MPG491CQPX QD OLED monitor, a twisted arcane melding of stunning image quality and fast response time. I don't know what dark arts were required to merge a 5120x1440 resolution 240Hz refresh rate panel with an industry leading GTG response time of 0.03 milliseconds and frankly, I don't want to know for the sake of my immortal soul. All I know is that the result is incredible HDR visuals that burst with color and are less likely to burn in thanks to MSI's OLED Care 2.0 technology. But just in case, they got a 3 year burn in warranty too.
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