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Bandcamp’s Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
Songtradr, which has acquired Bandcamp from Epic Games, said it did not have union membership information, but Songtradr’s CEO invited the bargaining team to a meeting last week.
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Marc Andreessen Manifesto Says AI Regulation “Is a Form of Murder”
Marc Andreesen’s latest a16z post makes a list of AI “enemies.”
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AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a “second level of disinformation.”
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Counter-Strike 2 Is ‘Garbage,’ Say Players Who Played Counter-Strike for 3,000 Hours
Valve’s erasure of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stirs the narcissism of small differences.
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‘Dream’ AI Girlfriend Randomly Turns Into Nude Jennifer Lopez, Has Four Legs
A nightmare scenario previously only imagined by AI researchers, where AI image generators accidentally spit out non-consensual pornography of real people, is now reality.
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4chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images
A coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images is using Bing and DALL-E 3’s text-to-image AI tool.
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People Exploited YouTube Bug to Upload “Undeletable” Porn Videos
Communities of YouTube hackers and YouTube porn searchers discovered a bug that broke the platform's interface and kept hardcore porn on the site for weeks.
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I Joined an Exclusive Club of YouTube Porn Hunters
Porn is hiding on YouTube in plain sight. You just have to know how to search for it.
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$260 Million AI Company Releases Undeletable Chatbot That Gives Detailed Instructions on Murder, Ethnic Cleansing
Mistral, an AI company founded by former Google and Meta alums pushed an “unmoderated” model into the world that will readily tell users how to kill their wives or restore Jim Crow-style discrimination.
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How the “Surveillance AI Pipeline” Literally Objectifies Human Beings
A preprint study covering 20,000 computer vision papers and patents over three decades shows “The Surveillance AI Pipeline,” and why the field needs more interdisciplinary studies.
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Kick Revisits Moderation Policy After CEO Laughs at Sex Worker ‘Prank’ Stream
Twitch’s competitor, known for its loose moderation policy, is reconsidering its choices after Ice Poseidon streamed a sex worker cornered in a hotel room.
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Deepfaked Drake Sings Transphobic Lyrics in Trump Rapper’s Music Video
The world of AI-generated music is getting increasingly weird.