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Snoop Dogg has hilariously responded to a diss track by Drake, who used the AI voices of the legendary rapper and Tupac Shakur against artist Kendrick Lamar.
Less than a week after “Push Ups” leaked online, Drake amped up his feud with Lamar by dropping yet another diss with the help of artificial intelligence. “Taylor Made Freestyle,” the AI version of Snoop used by Drake, heckled Lamar about responding to Drake’s “Push Ups.”
“But still, you gotta show this f***ing owl who’s boss on the West/Now’s a time to really make a power move,” he rapped on the song. “‘Cause right now it’s looking like you writing out the game plan on how to lose/How to bark up the wrong tree and then get your head popped in a crowded room.”

Taylor Made Freestyle pic.twitter.com/OrcdsIb8Wf
— Drizzy (@Drake) April 20, 2024

Fake Snoop added, “World is watching this chess game, but are you out of moves?/Dot, you know that the D-O-G never f***ing doubted you/But right now it seem like you posted up without a clue of what the f*** you ’bout to do.”
Drake steps in for the final verse. “High up in the sky like I’m Howard Hughes/The first one really only took me an hour or two/The next one is really ’bout to bring out the coward in you,” he raps.
The Canadian rapper has acknowledged Taylor Swift’s major album release, “The Tortured Poets Department,” noting that she appears to be another “boss” similar to how Kendrick’s former label, Top Dawg Entertainment, controlled his moves. “But now we gotta wait a f***king week ’cause Taylor Swift is your new Top/And if you ’bout to drop, she gotta approve/This girl really ’bout to make you act like you not in a feud.” He adds: “Yeah, shoutout to Taylor Swift/Biggest gangster in the music game right now.”
Snoop Dogg responds to Drake’s AI track along with others
Just hours after the track dropped, the Dogg Father reacted in an Instagram post. “They did what? When? How? Are you sure? Y’all have a good night,” Snoop began. Before signing off he continued, “Why everybody calling my phone, blowing me up? What the f***? What happened? What’s going on? I’m going back to bed. Good night.”

Snoop dogg reacts to AI Snoop being used on Drake second diss at Kendrick pic.twitter.com/ZFmMuVCoj2
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) April 20, 2024

The star seemed rather unfazed by being featured on the track, however, whether he changes his mind remains to be seen.
Drake’s usage of AI has sparked mixed reactions on social media with some people finding it creative while others didn’t like that he used a deceased rapper to go at K-Dot. WWE champion and DJ Peter Rosenberg said: “who was the person who said “yeah man — def use AI 2pac (Tupac)” .. that person is not a real friend.” Popular hip hop YouTubers The Akademy called it “next level”. DJ Jazzy Jeff, known from the popular comedy Fresh Prince of Bel Air, sent several laughing emojis.

who was the person who said “yeah man — def use AI 2pac” .. that person is not a real friend https://t.co/4ZyieyJtiB
— Peter Rosenberg (@Rosenbergradio) April 21, 2024

Ps. I heard Drake wrote the AI verses for AI Tupac and AI Snoop Dogg. this next level. his Verse is clearly real and him tho. He wrote all 3 lmao.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) April 20, 2024

“I can’t believe yall ok with the Canadian rapper using an AI Tupac. Manipulating the deceased voice with your own words for beef is the corniest s**t I have ever seen,” wrote one person on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Ngl Tupac would have hated Drake.”
There are number of music generators making waves including Suno AI, Stability AI, and Udio’s new tool which is backed by will.i.am.
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Recent analysis has revealed a noticeable decline in user engagement for the 25 most-cited news organizations in the United States across Meta platforms.
Washington Post reported a 75% drop on Facebook and a 58% decrease on Instagram from the first quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2024. Particularly affected were right-leaning outlets such as Newsmax, the Daily Wire, Fox News, and Breitbart, which experienced more severe declines on Instagram compared to their mainstream counterparts. However, this partisan disparity was not observed on Facebook.
The slump is said to be due to a strategic pivot by Meta, which has been distancing itself from political content across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The company introduced measures to reduce the visibility of political posts and has implemented stringent rules for political advertisers, drastically changing the targeting mechanisms previously used by political campaigns.
This shift follows extensive layoffs within Meta, significantly impacting the team that liaised with political figures and their campaigns. The company has reportedly tasked an advertising sales team, which worked closely with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, with taking over many of these responsibilities a source familiar with the company’s internal changes told the publication.
The ramifications of these changes are already evident in political circles. A review by The Washington Post noted a 60% drop in engagement per post for both the Biden and Trump campaigns compared to March 2020 figures, with similar trends on Instagram. The Trump campaign has criticized Meta’s actions as biased, whereas the Biden campaign has redirected its efforts towards leveraging influencers and volunteers to disseminate its message in less public online spaces.
Why Meta is moving away from politics
Meta spokesperson Dani Lever explained that the adjustments are in direct response to user preferences. “These changes are intended to impact what people see because that is what they told us they wanted — to see less political content and have more controls,” Lever stated. “This approach builds on years of work and is being applied to everyone.”
The company’s move away from political content also comes after severe criticism over the role social media played in events like the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Shortly after the Capitol attack, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to investors, “People don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services.”
Meta then declared in February that it would cease recommending political content from unfamiliar accounts on Instagram and Threads. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri stated last year that Threads would steer clear of politics and hard news to avoid undue scrutiny.
The social media giant is still susceptible to attacks from political figures, however. Facebook’s stock dropped significantly following critical remarks from Trump, who accused Facebook of being an “enemy of the people”.
Meta also removed the Facebook News tab for U.S. and Australian users, which led the Australian government to threaten action against the California-based social media company after it announced it would stop paying local media companies this year for using their content.
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OpenAI has stated that Elon Musk’s claim that the company violated its contractual commitments to create an open-source, nonprofit entity is “revisionist” and is an attempt to promote his own competing AI firm.
The Tesla CEO, who helped to found the company in 2015, sued the company and its chief executive Sam Altman in March, contending that the Microsoft-backed company’s shift towards profit-oriented objectives goes against the original agreement.
“Years ago, plaintiff Elon Musk abandoned OpenAI when his bid to dominate the venture failed,” OpenAI’s lawyers stated in a court filing, seeking dismissal of the lawsuit. “Now that he has launched a competing artificial intelligence firm, Musk seeks to leverage the success OpenAI has achieved and to direct OpenAI’s affairs for his own commercial benefit.”
OpenAI’s lawyers also deny Musk’s accusation that the company pledged not to monetize its technology, asserting that the billionaire owner of the social media platform X has not provided any contractual evidence to support his claim. “Musk cannot bring suit on an agreement that he cannot even plead into existence,” according to the state court filing in San Francisco.
What were OpenAI’s claims against Musk?
In a demurrer and motion to strike filed on March 27, OpenAI claimed that Musk’s argument contained a critical error and that the alleged Founding Agreement was “make-believe.” In simpler terms, such an agreement never existed, and Musk had failed to demonstrate the existence of any contract—whether written, oral, or implied—that substantiated his claim. The company added, “Musk cannot bring suit on an agreement that he cannot even plead into existence.”
A demurrer is a legal objection that questions the sufficiency of a plaintiff’s complaint. It essentially requests the court to determine that even if all the plaintiff’s statements are proven true at trial, they still would not constitute a sufficient basis for a judgment in the plaintiff’s favor. This mechanism allows the court to eliminate, at the outset of litigation, cases where the facts—as presented by the plaintiff—do not constitute a legitimate legal claim.
Alongside the demurrer, OpenAI submitted a motion to strike sections of Musk’s complaint. These sections requested the court to assess the development status of OpenAI’s technology and based on those assessments, “to enter an exorbitant and impractical order of specific performance.” Specific performance is a legal remedy that compels a party to fulfil the terms of a contract exactly as agreed.
Lawyers representing Musk had said that “Mr. Altman approached Mr. Musk with a proposal: that they join forces to form a non-profit AI lab that would try to catch up to Google in the race for AGI, but it would be the opposite of Google.”
Together with Brockman, the lawsuit added that they reached a consensus on the foundational ethos of the new AI lab. According to this agreement, OpenAI “would be a nonprofit developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for a for-profit company seeking to maximize shareholder profits; and (b) would be open-source, balancing only countervailing safety considerations, and would not keep its technology closed and secret for proprietary commercial reasons.”
A hearing on the demurrer and motion to strike is set for April 24.
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Venturing out into the world in Fallout 4 is a seminal moment in video gaming and it is very cool that so many people are experiencing it for the first time, having come to the game wanting a little more Fallout in their lives after the success of the excellent TV show.
Fallout 4 has been available all these years but you haven’t looked at it because you had so many games on your backlog, but now, here you are experiencing its wonders for the very first time. Well done you.
Of course, that also means there is a world of things to discover, puzzles to solve, bugs to transverse, and just some obtuse stuff that might not be obvious. Like this one.
Can you have two companions in Fallout 4?
You can only have one permanent companion in Fallout 4, let’s get that out of the way right at the beginning. There are around 13 options for permocomps (only I call them that, but you should too) but you can mod the game (see below) to make this more flexible for you should that be what you want.
Otherwise, unmodded you can have the one with you be it human, dog, or mutant.
Best Fallout 4 companion mods
The glory of Fallout 4 being a relatively old game is that it has already had the bejesus modded out of it. It has a whole section of mods to bend your companion wishes to your desires. In fact there are 73 pages of companion mods on Nexus – yes you read that correctly, including mods for brand-new pals, full-voiced companions, and also mods that let you bring more along for the ride as you play.
We advise maybe getting used to the base game first before modding it, although if you have modded any Bethesda game before such as Skyrim or Starfield, this is a piece of cake and you make your game look tons better in the process.
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The US House has voted 360-58 in support of a bill that would ban the video-sharing app TikTok if Chinese owners ByteDance fail to sell within 270 days.
The bill, part of a larger foreign aid bill that includes aid for Ukraine, also includes the option to extend the timeframe by 90 days if a deal is in progress. US officials allege that ByteDance is subservient to the Chinese Communist Party and as a result, the app poses a threat to US security.
The next step for the controversial bill is to be approved by the Senate, which will return from recess on April 29. From there, President Joe Biden has expressed his support for the bill.
TikTok has called this “unfortunate” and says that it is “trampling the free speech rights of 170 million Americans.” In a previous statement to Forbes, TikTok stated that forcing ByteDance to divest would not solve the problem, and “a change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access.”

It is unfortunate that the House of Representatives is using the cover of important foreign and humanitarian assistance to once again jam through a ban bill that would trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans, devastate 7 million businesses, and shutter a platform…
— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy) April 18, 2024

Notable opposition to a TikTok ban
In 2020, former President Donald Trump came close to banning the popular app but held off under pressure from a series of legal challenges. Speaking to CNBC last week, however, he has reversed his stance and now opposes a TikTok ban.
He stated that a ban on TikTok would “make Facebook bigger and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people.” Trump was banned from Facebook in 2021 and has been a vocal opponent of them ever since.
His reversal of position comes during a period of reconciliation between Trump and Jeff Yass, a GOP donor who has a financial stake in TikTok.
Another prominent person who opposes the ban is Elon Musk, owner of X and Tesla. He said in a post on X “In my opinion, TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the 𝕏 platform. Doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression. It is not what America stands for.”
We will know more about the chance of the bill passing the Senate when it reconvenes later this month, but for now, TikTok could still be banned in the USA.
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Fallout 4 has gotten so many new players who have binge-watched the excellent TV show and thought, I want me some more Fallout. This brings the game into a rather unique position where lots of you are having problems and getting stuck on the game for the first time, so some of its annoying quirks that caught so many out originally are resurfacing and causing headaches for a whole new generation of players.
One of the bigger annoyances in Fallout 4 can come early on in the character creation section. You really would have thought this would have been fixed by now, but, well Bethesda.
How to fix Fallout 4’s stuck mirror bug
As handsome as you are there is considerably more to Fallout 4 than just staring at your stuck face in a mirror – this isn’t Mirror Simulator after all (that game doesn’t exist but it should, call me).
There are a couple of versions of the mirror bug and if you are lucky you will manage to swerve all of them and get into the game proper, but if not there are some partial workarounds.
The game seems to get stuck in some kind of coding loop where the character creation HUD never pops up so our tactic to try and break the loop seems legit. If you are stuck staring at yourself, pause the game, wait a few seconds and unpause it.
What we are looking for is the dialogue of your character kicking in, if that happens the HUD should follow soon after. If nothing happens, repeat the process and try again, chances are within the first few attempts you will have forced the game to do what it is actually supposed to do and let you shape your character.
Another bug variant may see nothing at all appear in the mirror, like some kind of post-apocalyptic vampire (that game doesn’t exist, call me) you will have no reflection staring back at you. It is unlikely the pause/unpause trick will work here and your only course of action will be to try and restart the game.
Annoying but do bear in mind this game comes from a simpler time 10 years ago where bugs were merely features.
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