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Behind the Blog: Ray-Bans Are No Longer Cool or Timeless
This week, we discuss keeping FOIA reporting in front of a paywall, Ray-Bans, and what pregnate Schoolhouse Rock bills say about our current AI-driven hellscape.
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Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
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a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.
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AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset.
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
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Behind the Blog: Making Things for Humans
This week, we discuss Pavlovian Chartbeat response, when to say "cum," and the wave of making things for humans, by humans.
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Anthropic Promises Trump Admin Its AI Is Not Woke
After condemnation from Trump’s AI czar, Anthropic’s CEO promised its AI is not woke.
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Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.
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Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’
‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks.’
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Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures
This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.