Starred Articles: Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves by The Verge - All Posts July 29, 2024 at 09:14PM

AI characters in Instagram. | Meta

Meta is opening up the ability for anyone in the US to create AI versions of themselves in Instagram or on the web, with a new tool called AI Studio.

The pitch is that creators and business owners will use these AI profiles to talk to their followers on their behalf. They’ll be able to talk directly with humans in chat threads and respond to comments on their author’s account. Meta says Instagram users in the US can get started with AI Studio via either its website or by starting a new “AI chat” directly in Instagram.

In a blog post on Monday, the company writes that “creators can customize their AI based on things like their Instagram content, topics to avoid and links they want it to share.” The post goes on to say that creators will…

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Starred Articles: In search of the perfect movie recommendation by The Verge - All Posts July 28, 2024 at 10:00AM

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It’s one of the most common low-stakes annoyances in modern life: you flop down on the couch at the end of the day, finally with a few minutes to watch one of the dozens of incredible shows or movies you have access to thanks to the peak TV era and the advent of streaming, and you start scrolling. Instead of actually watching anything, you spend an interminable evening opening apps, aimlessly scrolling through endless rows of same-looking tiles. You eventually give up and watch The Office again.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we look at why TV and movie recommendations are so complicated, and whether AI might be able to make them better. If Spotify can build infinite playlists of music you’ll like, and YouTube and TikTok always seem…

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Apparently getting polled requests correctly is a li’l bit tricky. I do a li’l bit of scraping from cron and I didn’t know any of this stuff 😰

It’s possible to get a variety of RSS feeds from Google News, and come from Google itself, so they don’t have to be generated with third-party tools like our Feed Creator.

In this post we’re going to show you how to include even more in your feeds, including item dates, images, and summaries.

In this tutorial we’ll use reader to download all the episodes of a podcast, and then each new episode as they come up.

A good list of Lemmy

“The RSS feed for GoToSocial profiles is turned off by default.”

Not super happy about that 💔

Sfeed is a simple RSS and Atom parser (and format programs to add reader functionality)