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Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation
Hoopla has emailed librarians saying it’s removing AI-generated books from the platform people use to borrow ebooks from public libraries.
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Trump Admin Adds Note Rejecting ‘Gender Ideology’ on Sites Court Ordered Them to Restore
FDA and HHS sites now note that “The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children.”
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AI Slop of Musk and Trump on TikTok Racks Up 700 Million Views
Motivational videos on TikTok using AI-generated voices of Trump, Musk, and other celebrities are racking up millions of views.
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Senator Pushes Zuckerberg on "Perverse Abuse" of Nudify Ads After 404 Media Report
Senator Dick Durbin presses Meta to explain why it can’t stop sending traffic to nonconsensual AI image generators that violate its policy.
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”
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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
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Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
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Anthropic CEO Says Limiting China’s Access to AI Chips Is 'Existentially Important'
Dario Amodei argues we must limit China’s access to AI chips so we can live under all powerful American-owned AI as opposed to all powerful Chinese-owned AI.
LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs
An AI LinkedIn profile was "open to work," boasting it’s a better worker than a human.
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DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core
Why a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model has turned the AI industry on its head.
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Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump
Some Facebook users were shocked to see Trump in their feeds yesterday, but that’s likely because they were already following official administration accounts.