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Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts
CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.
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I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.
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Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn
Luma Labs’ Dream Machine, an AI video generator that’s on the market before OpenAI’s Sora, can be tricked to generate explicit videos.
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AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.
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Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on GitHub to Protest 'Art Theft'
An extension for a popular Stable Diffusion graphical user interface on Github appears to have been stealing users’ login credentials.
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Americans Are Hiring People in the Philippines to Help Them Find Adderall
For $50 a prescription, a freelancer overseas will call pharmacies in your area to find Adderall and weight loss drugs like Mounjaro or WeGovy.
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'Team Fortress 2' Botters Use AI Voice to Defame Critic
Team Fortress 2’s botting problem has escalated to doxing, swatting, and defaming people who call attention to it.
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Why Do These Instagram Electricians Want to 'Deep Throat' You?
A convoluted web of referral schemes results in Instagram ads for roofers who want to have sex with you.
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Amazon Sold Fake Copies of Hotly Anticipated UFO Book
UFO enthusiasts admit they bought scam copies of Luis Elizondo’s upcoming “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs.”
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Would You Waste Less of Your Life Online If You Got Daily ‘Attention Receipts’?
The experiment found that "the materiality of the receipt improves reflection and therefore influences the quality and quantity of time spent on YouTube."
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What It’s Like Finding Your Nonconsensual AI Clone Online
Ali Diamond captured the exact moment she found out someone had posted an AI model of her to Civitai without her consent.
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AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Is Not a ‘Victimless Crime’
The ability to produce infinite images powered by datasets containing millions of photographs of real people, including children, and real images of real CSAM, perpetuates abuse in a way that was previously impossible.
