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Helldivers 2 Is So Popular Players Are Squatting Servers
I admit it: I'm logging in at 9am to just to secure a spot for later in the evening.
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‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded
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.
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Service Jobs Now Require Bizarre Personality Test From AI Company
Paradox.ai, which is used by some of the biggest employers in the country, requires applicants to respond to dozens of confusing slides featuring a blue alien named Ash.
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Microsoft’s AI Will Delete Its Own Answers Before Your Eyes
Copilot knows what a ‘badonkadonk’ is, but will delete its answer after telling you.
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AI-Generated Grandma Porn Is Flooding the Internet
Hundreds of AI GILF erotica are flooding Xvideos and Manyvids.
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‘DignifAI:’ 4chan Is Editing Pictures to Clothe Women
The inverse of "nudifying" apps, people are putting clothing on women they deem "undignified."
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Fake Bill Ackman and Jim Cramer Instagram Ads are Trying to Take My Money
Meta continues to profit by selling ads to scammers who are trying to fleece its users.
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The Taylor Swift Deepfakes Disaster Threatens to Change the Internet As We Know It
Deepfakes and AI-generated nonconsensual sexual imagery have been a problem for a long time. But with the resurgence of attention on them, we're facing a reckoning.
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Microsoft Closes Loophole That Created AI Porn of Taylor Swift
Following 404 Media’s reporting, Microsoft has made changes to a tool people were using to make AI nudes of celebrities.
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AI-Generated Taylor Swift Porn Went Viral on Twitter. Here's How It Got There
404 Media traced back the viral and abusive images of Taylor Swift to a specific Telegram community. That group sometimes uses Microsoft's AI tools.
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Founder of Neo-Nazi Group the Base Instructs Followers to Use 'Uncensored' AI
A large language model by the same company previously produced instructions on how to kill someone or carry out ethnic cleansing.