Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Media

Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk's crosshairs (arstechnica.com)
Big brands are allocating small amounts of their advertising budget to Elon Musk’s X, seeking to avoid being seen as boycotting the social media platform and triggering a public fallout with its billionaire owner.

Advertising, Social Media, Elon Musk, Business

6 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | 2 comments

2.8B Twitter IDs Leaked (forbes.com)
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is no stranger to the news. What with the reported purchase of X by xAI for $33 billion, attackers claiming responsibility for platform outages, and X password scams targeting users. Now, another shock awaits the users of what used to be Twitter: a self-proclaimed data enthusiast has just given away what is claimed to be a database containing details of some 200 million X user records. Here’s what we know so far.

Data Breaches, Social Media, Security, Privacy, Elon Musk

8 points by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3 hours ago | 6 comments

Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down (futurism.com)
Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator.

Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Social Media, Chatbots

10 points by Anon84 5 hours ago | 2 comments

Breach of X allegedly leaks over 200M users' email addresses (mashable.com)
An alleged X data breach has leaked the email addresses of more than 200 million users.

Data Breaches, Security, Social Media, Privacy

15 points by tantalor 9 hours ago | 0 comments

Everything is Ghibli (carly.substack.com)
OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed was drowning in Studio Ghibli-style portraits. (Linkedin, check back next week.) What happened—and why—is another signal of where AI, art, and our attention are headed.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Art, Social Media

177 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 289 comments

Apple Intelligence denies rewriting a sentence that contain "protests in Turkey" (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Apple, Social Media, Censorship, Turkey, Protests

7 points by utku1337 1 day ago | 0 comments

GPT-4o helped me re-create classic cartoons with myself as a character (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Generative AI, AI Art, Humor, Social Media

12 points by ykhli 1 day ago | 0 comments

Sam Altman: we added one million users in the last hour (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Social Media, User Growth, Technology

4 points by s-macke 1 day ago | 0 comments

Bluesky isn't just another Twitter/X competitor. It fixes social media (crazystupidtech.com)
I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023. Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There weren’t enough users. I stopped using it.

Social Media, Twitter, Bluesky

21 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 11 comments

Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk's crosshairs (arstechnica.com)
Big brands are allocating small amounts of their advertising budget to Elon Musk’s X, seeking to avoid being seen as boycotting the social media platform and triggering a public fallout with its billionaire owner.

Advertising, Social Media, Elon Musk, Business

17 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 5 comments

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances (fokus.cool)
Due to an implementation mistake, Pixelfed ignores this and allows anyone to follow even private accounts on other servers. When a legitimate user from a Pixelfed instance follows you on your locked fediverse account, anyone on that Pixelfed instance can read your private posts. You don’t need to be a Pixelfed user to be affected.

Privacy, Security, Social Media, Open Source, Fediverse

50 points by pierremenard 2 days ago | 25 comments

Brands spend nominal sums on X ads to keep Elon Musk happy (ft.com)

Advertising, Social Media, Elon Musk, Business

13 points by 01-_- 3 days ago | 2 comments

The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account (theatlantic.com)
On March 18, the official White House account on X posted two photographs of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a woman who was arrested earlier this month by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The post described her as a “previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking,” and celebrated her capture as a win for the administration. In one photograph, Basora-Gonzalez is shown handcuffed and weeping in a public parking lot.

Politics, Social Media, Immigration, Law Enforcement

10 points by zfg 3 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk Merges AI with X: Implications (katherinewrites.com)
Elon Musk has announced today that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acquired X (formerly Twitter) in an all-stock transaction valued at $33 billion, with xAI's valuation reaching $80 billion (xAI was valued at around $50 billion in a financing round last year and according to Bloomberg, last month the company was in talks to raise funds at a $75 billion valuation).

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Business, Acquisitions

8 points by slothsinc 3 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk makes request to Reddit CEO to take down posts he didn't like (mashable.com)
Elon Musk personally reached out to the CEO of Reddit to complain about content on the platform.

Elon Musk, Reddit, Social Media, Censorship, Free Speech

23 points by DocFeind 3 days ago | 1 comments

Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job (hackread.com)
A data leak involving a whopping 2.87 billion Twitter (X) users has surfaced on the infamous Breach Forums.

Data Breaches, Social Media, Security, Twitter

112 points by CHEF-KOCH 3 days ago | 15 comments

Pinterest, but for Links – Saveku (saveku.com)
Saveku is a FREE ultimate bookmark manager specialized in links and simplicity.

Bookmarks, Web Browsing, Social Media, Productivity

12 points by roywj 4 days ago | 5 comments

Elon Musk's xAI firm buys social media platform X for $33B (theguardian.com)
Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence firm has acquired Musk’s X – the social media platform formerly known as Twitter – for $33bn, marking the latest twist in the billionaire’s rapid consolidation of power.

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Business, Elon Musk

9 points by n1b0m 4 days ago | 5 comments

Elon Musk's X has a new owner–Elon Musk's xAI (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk today said he has merged X and xAI in a deal that values the social network formerly known as Twitter at $33 billion.

Elon Musk, Twitter, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

5 points by travisgriggs 4 days ago | 2 comments

Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33B in all-stock deal (apnews.com)
Elon Musk has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33 billion all-stock deal, the billionaire announced on Friday.

Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Acquisitions, Social Media

6 points by achristmascarl 4 days ago | 4 comments

Dupe: Elon Musk's XAI Acquires X, Because of Course (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the company at $33 billion, including $12 billion worth of debt, the centibillionaire announced Friday.

Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, Social Media, Elon Musk

4 points by nickthegreek 4 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk's AI Company Acquires X in $45B Deal (hollywoodreporter.com)
Elon Musk said Friday that xAI, his artificial intelligence company, had acquired X in an all-stock transaction that values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45 billion, his original take-private price, minus $12 billion in debt).

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Acquisitions, Social Media, Elon Musk

10 points by stephenheron 4 days ago | 1 comments

XAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33B (cnbc.com)

Acquisitions, Social Media, Technology, Business

13 points by jbredeche 4 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk's xAI buys Elon Musk's X for $33B on paper (theverge.com)
A couple of years after buying Twitter, Elon Musk announced that his AI business xAI has acquired the social media platform that’s now known as X.

Elon Musk, Social Media, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence

20 points by amrrs 4 days ago | 3 comments

Elon Musk says xAI acquired X (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, he announced in a post on X Friday.

Elon Musk, AI, Social Media, Acquisitions

12 points by coloneltcb 4 days ago | 1 comments

GitHub has gone – long live Forgejo (mastodon.social)

GitHub, Open Source, Software Development, Social Media

12 points by Helithumper 4 days ago | 2 comments

Trump's Truth: A Public Archive of Donald Trump's Communications on Truth Social (trumpstruth.org)
Trump's Truth is a public archive of Donald Trump's communications on TRUTH Social. We believe this is an essential part of the historical record, and that it must be preserved for its educational, journalistic and research value.

Politics, Social Media, Archives, History

7 points by stefankuehnel 4 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Musk Gets Reddit CEO to Censor Critical Comments (thedailypoliticususa.com)
The power of the broligarchy grows as new reporting comes out that Elon Musk, who runs a government department called DOGE and thus can be seen arguably as the government when he speaks, pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on content moderation.

Elon Musk, Reddit, Content Moderation, Social Media, Censorship

16 points by Jacquie11 4 days ago | 1 comments

'An Insult to Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki's AI Criticism Resurfaces (animehunch.com)
OpenAI’s latest image-generation update has taken social media by storm, as users are flooding X, Instagram, and Reddit with Studio Ghibli-style images generated by AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Anime, Social Media, Creative Projects, Controversy

31 points by bauta-steen 4 days ago | 9 comments

Nobody should be a "content creator" (christianheilmann.com)
As part of my job, I have to keep up with the social media space and I’m worried, bored and annoyed in equal measures. There is not much social about it any longer. Instead it’s become a race to the bottom of lowest common denominator content. And interaction bait. Or rage bait. Or just obvious spam disguised in seemingly sophisticated sound bites generated by AI.

Social Media, Content Creation, AI, Technology, Criticism

70 points by mfld 5 days ago | 44 comments