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Everyone Everywhere Hated Meta’s New AI Training Terms. Now, They’re On Pause
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Everyone Everywhere Hated Meta’s New AI Training Terms. Now, They’re On Pause

Back to the drawing board!
The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin
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The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin

Yuriy Nazarenko created ‘OnlyFake’, a site that let anyone churn out realistic fake IDs with AI. Then the North Koreans came knocking.
World of Warcraft: Forever Is Already Overrun with AI Slop
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World of Warcraft: Forever Is Already Overrun with AI Slop

The vibe-coded addon problem is getting so bad that Warcraft Logs is changing its API and developers are dealing with theft of their work.
Voting in 2026 Is Getting an AI Slop 'I Voted' Sticker
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Voting in 2026 Is Getting an AI Slop 'I Voted' Sticker

My polling place was handing out AI slop to midterm voters.
ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
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ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.
‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI
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‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI

Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.
Police Say Scammers Used AI to Clone a Sheriff’s Voice
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Police Say Scammers Used AI to Clone a Sheriff’s Voice

The scammers used the voice of a specific sheriff to impersonate him.
Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator
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Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator

Christopher Thomas Mertens, a high school maintenance worker, was arrested after attempting to meet up with an AI persona that he thought was a 15 year old boy.
Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
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Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month

Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
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Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy

"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it.
AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
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AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo

Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.
Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."