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Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump
Some Facebook users were shocked to see Trump in their feeds yesterday, but that’s likely because they were already following official administration accounts.
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Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.
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Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic
A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.
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CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
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Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.
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‘Minion Gore’ Videos Use AI to Post Murder to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
People are using AI video generator Runway to post extremely violent Minionfied videos to social media.
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We Don’t Want Your Password
Some people don't love our magic link logins. But the best way for us to protect your password is to never ask for it.
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APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI
Anthropic created an AI jailbreaking algorithm that keeps tweaking prompts until it gets a harmful response.
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YouTube “Enhances” Comment Section With AI-Generated Nonsense
YouTube’s rollout of AI tools shows nonsensical AI-generated audience engagement and AI slop thumbnails.
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Congress Pushes Apple to Remove Deepfake Apps After 404 Media Investigation
Congress is asking Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other big tech companies why they can’t get their deepfake problem under control.
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404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting
404 Media's reporting on an internal Google privacy violation database has been subpoenaed by the State of Texas. We are fighting it.
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The Unauthorized Effort to Archive Netflix’s Disappeared Interactive Shows
A group of fans are reverse engineering Netflix and creating unauthorized archives of interactive shows like Battle Kitty and Minecraft: Story Mode