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404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Data shows that the vast majority of images on Civitai were pornographic, and that the site hosted more than 50,000 AI models designed to recreate the likeness of real people.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai.
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• Matthew Gault
“All of the knowledge to generate the exploit already exists on the internet. AI could even build it for you,” the researcher told 404 Media.
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• Matthew Gault
Sweden's Moderate party allowed users to make the PM hold a sign bearing any name they wanted. You know what happened next.
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• Jason Koebler
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
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• Rosie Thomas
People are uploading videos of their post-deportation life to TikTok and other platforms.
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• Becky Ferreira
Scientists warn that “the cuts would prevent the US from training and preparing the next generation of the scientific and technical workforce.”
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Creators of AI image models for porn and celebrities are running out of easy hosting options as Civitai and Tensor.Art change their policies under pressure.
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• Joseph Cox
This week, we discuss choosing what to cover, fishing expeditions, and the library.
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• Becky Ferreira
“If such a force is observed, it would be an incredible breakthrough in physics,” said one researcher.
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• Matthew Gault
The AIs are designed to teach people about atrocities in Sudan.
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• Joseph Cox
I didn’t sign up for the Trump Mobile cellphone plan. I still haven’t received my gold plated Trump phone. But the company just charged my credit card again.
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• Joseph Cox
The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
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• Joseph Cox
The rise of Anubis; ICE's new facial recognition app; and a bunch of articles about LLMs.
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• Samantha Cole
Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear.
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• Matthew Gault
LLMs don’t read the danger in requests if you use enough big words.
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• Matthew Gault
More than $160 million in crypto is riding on the definition of 'suit.'
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
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• Jason Koebler
Jason speaks to Casey Johnston, author of A Physical Education, about TK TK.
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• Jason Koebler
404 Media is closed this week. School's out.
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• Becky Ferreira
It’s the first observed instance of a marine mammal manufacturing tools.
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• Joseph Cox
This week, we discuss wrestling over a good headline, what to read this summer, and Super 8 film.
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• Rosie Thomas
Researchers took inspiration from r/AmITheAsshole to find out if chatbots are likely to demonstrate an exaggerated version of human beings’ “bias for inaction.”
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• Becky Ferreira
An unprecedented study reveals maternal lineages, female-centered practices, and a “surprising shift” in a 9,000-year-old settlement associated with a goddess cult.
404 Media
• Ella Chakarian
People are self treating themselves and other community members in subreddits like character_ai_recovery, ChatBotAddiction, and AIAddiction.
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• Joseph Cox
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.
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• Joseph Cox
It’s a legal requirement for data brokers to register in the state of California. ARC, the airlines-owned data broker that has been selling your flight information to the government for years, only just registered after being contacted by the office of Senator Ron Wyden.
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• Samantha Cole
404 Media spoke to Dave McNamee, the original creator of the babyface Vance meme, about free speech, our rights, and how it feels to see the thing you created being blamed for someone's denial of entry to the U.S.
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• Samantha Cole
An Ohio man is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searched for "undress" apps and "ai porn."
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• Joseph Cox
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
