OpenAI
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
News
Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts
Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are vandalizing the map with fake data in order to cheat in the game.
AI
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
AI
Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.
columbia
Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
Columbia University allowed police to storm campus Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner accused student protestors of using an "industrial" chain to barricade doors.
ChatGPT
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT
The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.
Podcast
Podcast: A Lost Media Mystery
The source of a long mysterious 17-second snippet of music; a service that scraped and sold Discord server messages; and influencers using fake, AI-powered livestream apps.
AI
Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders
Facebook's recommendation engine, which is core to the company's business model, is injecting grotesque images of AI-generated child gore into people's feeds.
AI
Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women
"I downloaded this app called Parallel Live which makes it look like you have tens of thousands of people watching. Instantly, I became the life of the party."
Lost Media
Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno
The search is over for 'Everyone Knows That,' also known as 'Ulterior Motives' by Christopher Saint Booth, when it was found in the pornographic film "Angels of Passion."
Wikipedia
Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original
Ruviki is intended to be a more “trustworthy” source of information for Russians by editing out anything that makes the Russian government look bad.
News
Tech Companies Promise to Try to Do Something About All the AI CSAM They’re Enabling
The biggest tech companies in the world pledge to do something about the harmful AI images they are actively enabling.
age verification
Chaturbate Will Pay Texas $675,000 for Violating New Porn Age Verification Law
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the popular porn webcam site in March.