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Uber Shuffling is Taking Off; Facebook Patrolling the Web: Releasing New AI-Checker

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Joshua Packard
May 16, 2024

Uber Shuffling is Taking Off

Uber has officially announced the development of its own shuttle service. (Arguably) in order to compete with rival drive-for-hire companies, such as Lyft, Uber is beginning to expand its reach in capabilities and potentials to attract new users.

The first (and only announced) point of service (where the shuttle will take the passengers) will be Costco. 

Membership-owning Costco-goers will now have a chance to bring home, in bulk, supplies/goods they otherwise may have had to with a different car.

Uber stated that shuttle users can reserve up to five seats in buses operating in high-traffic areas like airports and sports events.

The company will be utilizing vehicles containing 14 to 55 seats each. Additionally, discounts will be offered to Uber One-subscribed students.

In the meantime, Lyft still has yet to provide a shuttling service, but its competition with Uber continues to grow.

Facebook Patrolling the Web: Releasing New AI-Checker

Recently, Facebook announced that, in lieu of solely “fact-checking” labels, it will begin utilizing “Made with AI” tags on posts it deems misleading towards reality.

This change will come in May and target any content generated by AI, whether it be video, audio, or pictographic.

Like the infamous “fact-checker” labels of the past Covid-era, these new tags may help protect the ethos and credibility of the upcoming presidential election, in an age where faking speeches and artificial voice-overs are gaining prominence. 

New Age of Watermarks

Additionally, Meta is taking further steps to prevent the spread of AI-assisted fabricated news/information, by eventually embedding and detecting invisible markers within images and videos.

A spokesman for Meta related that the labeling will also be used on Instagram and other thread services, along with Facebook.

They will be especially targeting “high risk” generative AI news/information and label them as such. It remains to be clarified what high risk means.

Curiously, Meta is jointly considering labeling non-AI content, as well, that may be fake but free of AI.

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