Samantha Cole

Samantha Cole

Sam Cole is writing from the far reaches of the internet, about sexuality, the adult industry, online culture, and AI. She's the author of How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex.
358 posts
Behind the Blog: Making Things for Humans
Behind The Blog

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.
New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines
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New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines

An analysis of how tools to make non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes spread online, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shows X and search engines surface these sites easily.
OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny
OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Just two months ago, Sam Altman acknowledged that putting a “sex bot avatar” in ChatGPT would be a move to “juice growth.” Something the company had been tempted to do, he said, but had resisted. 
News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
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News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America

Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.
Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public

This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking
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GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enterprise to begin with.
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
ChatGPT

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck the bot. 
Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
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Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions. 
‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.
Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures
Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures

This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
OpenAI

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation error.
Behind the Blog: Open-Source Drama and Saudi-Approved Humor
Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Open-Source Drama and Saudi-Approved Humor

This week, we discuss characters in open source, that Saudi comedy festival, and asking ourselves if we're haters.