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You're Invited: 404 Media's First Anniversary Party
We're throwing a party and you're invited!
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AI Maxers Thrilled with Trump’s Vice President Pick JD Vance
AI maxers coming out in support of Vance and Trump more than they already have is not surprising given their libertarian bent.
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4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn
Cici AI, an AI assistant quietly launched by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, has paused image generation after 404 Media reached out for comment.
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AI Finds That AI Is Great In New Garbage Research From Tony Blair Institute
The former Prime Minister presented research claiming AI could reduce the public sector workforce. It’s largely based on a ChatGPT-4 output.
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Players Celebrate Mod That Deletes Homeless People in Cities: Skylines II
“Bye Bye Homeless” fixes a bug in the city building game by deleting homeless people that players couldn’t evict or find new housing for.
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Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
“While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”
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Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
“Ultimately it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to hit a deadline,” Figma’s CEO said.
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Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Tool
Dozens of Fiverr sellers are advertising access to TLOxp, a potent data surveillance tool sold by credit bureau TransUnion.
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Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever
Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable Diffusion community doesn’t need the company that brought it to the world.
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Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts
CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.
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I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.
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Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn
Luma Labs’ Dream Machine, an AI video generator that’s on the market before OpenAI’s Sora, can be tricked to generate explicit videos.