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Economic Times
4 hours ago
- Economic Times
How a three-second Instagram clip featuring dogs sparked trouble for a business owner
Synopsis Rochelle Marinato, an Australian business owner, faced account suspension on Instagram. Meta flagged her personal and business accounts for violating community guidelines related to child exploitation. Despite multiple appeals, her business account was permanently disabled, leading to a significant revenue drop until Meta restored it after an investigation. Marinato said that she received an email to her business account where she promotes her products. TIL Creatives An AI moderator seemed to have detected an issue with the image and mistaken it for an image of children.. An adorable video featuring three dogs looking outside a window invited trouble for an Australian business owner from Meta. The business owner in question here is Rochelle Marinato, who owns a Pilates equipment supplier. She posted the video on her personal Instagram account and said she received an email from the social media giant that her account had been suspended for "breaching community guidelines around child sexual exploitation, abuse, and nudity."The matter surfaced when an AI moderator seemed to have detected an issue with the image and mistaken it for an image of children. Speaking to Nine's 2GB radio, Marinato said that she received an email to her business account where she promotes her products. She was advised that account had been suspended as further stated that she was told it was associated with an account that breached community guidelines. She appealed the decision multiple times and sent more than 22 emails to Meta, but she had no help. "I had no idea that by putting up this little three-second video of the dogs," she said."Even when I received the original email from Meta saying my account was suspended, I thought, 'This will be fine; I'll get it back shortly.' But then I received the email about my business account, and I was a little more worried, but it does give you an option to appeal at first, so I appealed. Immediately, my appeal was also assessed by AI, and it was denied, so from then on, my business account was permanently disabled," she further stated. A Meta spokesperson said Marinato's case was investigated by the company and restored following an appeal. "We take action on accounts that violate our policies, and people can appeal if they think we've made a mistake," the spokesperson said, as quoted by 9News. Prior to the restoration of her account, Marinato said she went through the process of paying a third party. "This is someone my kids actually found on TikTok, and their account doesn't exist anymore," she said. "This seems to be what they business owner has been researching for the past three weeks how to recover her account. "The problem is so widespread, and I'd heard of people paying to get their accounts back." "Our revenue dropped by 75 percent," she said."With losing that account, all of my Instagram advertising was gone as well, because I advertise quite heavily on Meta. It had a really significant impact on the business because we rely so heavily on social media, especially in the fitness space. We lost everything," she continued.
NDTV
4 hours ago
- NDTV
"This Will Sell': Elon Musk's Grok Introduces AI Companions Featuring A Goth Anime Girl
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has introduced a new feature called AI companions, in which users have access to customisable 3D animated characters, including a goth anime girl. The other character is a furry red panda named Bad Rudy that has a mean, sarcastic personality and a vulgar streak. "This is pretty cool," Musk wrote in one of his recent posts on X, sharing an image of the anime companion Ani, who is a blonde, pigtailed character wearing a black corset, short dress, and thigh-high fishnets. Musk confirmed that the AI companion feature is currently in a soft launch and will be easier to activate for Super AI subscribers in a few days. The companions seem to be the latest in a series of features aimed at boosting user engagement and offering greater personalisation for paid users. See the post here: Update your app to try out @Grok companions! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2025 It remains unclear if these AI companions are meant to role-play as romantic interests or serve as different skins for users on the app. Some users have pointed out that the feature is similar to where users are able to talk to chatbots based on real-life and fictional characters. Social media reacts As the news of the new feature went viral, social media users joked that Mr Musk may have found a way to turn the AI business profitable. "I mean, that sh*t is probably going to sell, especially with more characters, with different personalities," said one user while another joked: " is shaking in their boots lol another wrapper gone." A third commented: "Can I customise it to look like Karl Marx and read the news with an anti-capitalist bias to propagandise my friends in the bar? That's all I want!" A fourth said: "There's a lot of data to indicate huge amounts of loneliness in the modern world and perhaps an AI 'companion' can help to off-set this. There isn't any real reason to prevent people from using AI in this way." What is Grok? Grok is Mr Musk's answer to his rivals, such as Google and Meta, who have come up with their respective chatbots to take a lead in the AI race. xAI launched Grok 4 last week, with the billionaire touting it one of the most advanced chatbots capable of solving almost any query. "With respect to academic questions, Grok 4 is better than PhD level in every subject, no exceptions," said Mr Musk during the launch. "At times, it may lack common sense, and it has not yet invented new technologies or discovered new physics, but that is just a matter of time." It was in April 2024 that Mr Musk and the xAI team decided that to develop the most advanced AI, they needed to build their own data centre. With a strict deadline, the team managed to get the first 100,000 GPUs operational in just 122 days, calling it a "monumental effort." This massive computing power has continuously improved Grok, allowing it to function in three modes: DeepSearch, Think, and Big Mind.
Time of India
5 hours ago
- Time of India
How a three-second Instagram clip featuring dogs sparked trouble for a business owner
An adorable video featuring three dogs looking outside a window invited trouble for an Australian business owner from Meta . The business owner in question here is Rochelle Marinato, who owns a Pilates equipment supplier. She posted the video on her personal Instagram account and said she received an email from the social media giant that her account had been suspended for "breaching community guidelines around child sexual exploitation, abuse, and nudity." The matter surfaced when an AI moderator seemed to have detected an issue with the image and mistaken it for an image of children. Speaking to Nine's 2GB radio, Marinato said that she received an email to her business account where she promotes her products. She was advised that account had been suspended as well. She further stated that she was told it was associated with an account that breached community guidelines. She appealed the decision multiple times and sent more than 22 emails to Meta, but she had no help. "I had no idea that by putting up this little three-second video of the dogs," she said. "Even when I received the original email from Meta saying my account was suspended, I thought, 'This will be fine; I'll get it back shortly.' But then I received the email about my business account, and I was a little more worried, but it does give you an option to appeal at first, so I appealed. Immediately, my appeal was also assessed by AI, and it was denied, so from then on, my business account was permanently disabled," she further stated. Meta Responds Live Events A Meta spokesperson said Marinato's case was investigated by the company and restored following an appeal. "We take action on accounts that violate our policies, and people can appeal if they think we've made a mistake," the spokesperson said, as quoted by 9News. How was Marinato's account restored Prior to the restoration of her account, Marinato said she went through the process of paying a third party. "This is someone my kids actually found on TikTok, and their account doesn't exist anymore," she said. "This seems to be what they do. The business owner has been researching for the past three weeks how to recover her account. "The problem is so widespread, and I'd heard of people paying to get their accounts back." "Our revenue dropped by 75 percent," she said. "With losing that account, all of my Instagram advertising was gone as well, because I advertise quite heavily on Meta. It had a really significant impact on the business because we rely so heavily on social media, especially in the fitness space. We lost everything," she continued. Economic Times WhatsApp channel )
