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404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed
We paid for the development of full text RSS feeds for Ghost-based publishers. Now we can offer them to our paid subscribers, and other Ghost sites can use the service too.
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Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn
Leonardo AI, which recently raised $31 million and is one of the most popular AI image generators online, can easily be used to produce nonconsensual porn.
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Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet
Invasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a driver's license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Discriminates Against Short Kings, Gamers Lose Their Minds
A 690 posts-long Steam discussion accuses players of pedophilia and “woke subversion.”
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Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text
The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.
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Horrific AI-Generated Breastfeeding Images Bypass Facebook’s Moderation
A page called Mom Daily is using AI-generated images of mothers and babies to bypass Facebook’s rules on nudity, with some really terrifying results.
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Why Is 404 Media Included in a Fake Netflix Trailer Made by Russia?
A sprawling disinformation campaign is targeting journalists and making 404 Media part of the story.
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ElevenLabs Block on Cloning Biden's Voice Easily Bypassed
Hyped AI startup ElevenLabs introduced a 'no-go voices' policy after its tools were used as part of a robocall impersonating Biden. But those protections are easily circumvented, 404 Media has found in its own tests.
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Google’s Gemini AI Doesn’t Want to Talk About Palestine
Google’s supposedly “woke” AI will also not say where Gaza is, but will locate Israel and Tel Aviv.
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A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree
Verbal Verdict is the best use of generative AI I’ve seen.
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Israeli Soldiers Are Posting Tinder Profile Pictures From Gaza
“This is contributing to the whole normalizing of anti-Palestinian racism, and downgrading of Palestinians as if they are not human beings.”
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Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money
“Our labor is what makes AI work, and it could not function without us. We are the data that makes the machine work.”