Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs (www.404media.co)
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)
‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
Most Popular Reddit User of All Time Posts Hundreds of Lewd Waifus Per Day (www.404media.co)
Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text (www.404media.co)
The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.
Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)
An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.
How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall (www.404media.co)
Hackers and fraudsters are gaining access to sensitive drug ordering tools and then advertising some of the most tightly controlled drugs in the country, including fentanyl....
Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money (www.404media.co)
AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon (www.404media.co)
Why Read Swisher’s Burn Book when you can read KARA SWISHER : The Heroic Biography of a defining force in Tech Journalism (The Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech journalist).
Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books (www.404media.co)
Etsy sellers are turning free fanfiction into printed and bound physical books, and listing them for sale on online marketplaces for more than $100 per book. It’s a problem that’s rattling the authors of those fanfics, as well as their fans and readers....
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to OpenAI to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to OpenAI to Train AI Tools::Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals....
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender (www.404media.co)
Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That...
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded (www.404media.co)
An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time (www.404media.co)
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair (www.404media.co)
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Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (www.404media.co)
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Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.