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Apple Opens iPad to Alternative App Stores and Meta Resurfaces AI Training Plans: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Apple must allow alternative app stores on the iPad, thanks to the European Union’s (EU) Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA, alongside the Digital Services Act (DSA), is part of a raft of measures designed to ensure greater transparency and choice for consumers in an age of increasingly powerful tech behemoths. One of the key aims is to stop those who own large platforms from leveraging that platform to sell only their own products at the expense of others.

September 17, 2024
Dan Holloway
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Self-Publishing News: Meta Pauses Use of Posts for AI Training in EU and UK

It feels as though this week starts with some little victories, and those are always good things to share. I’ll start with one of the stories I featured very recently: the move by Meta to use people’s posts across its various platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, for AI training. If you recall, users of those platforms had to jump through considerable hoops—from finding the notification in the first place to composing an essay explaining why they didn’t want their creative output to train AI—to withdraw from the scheme.

Self-Publishing News: Meta Considered Buying Simon & Schuster to Train AI

The New York Times received leaks from a former employee at Facebook’s parent Meta that show the company were spending a lot of time at the start of 2023 discussing the possibility of buying Simon & Schuster. The purpose of the acquiring Simon & Schuster would have been to acquire the rights to the catalogue so as to use it for AI training.