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Discord bans Spy Pet-affiliated accounts, which were scraping 12K+ Discord servers to archive and sell user data, and says it is considering legal action (www.404media.co)
2 days ago

Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media probe found the apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images (www.404media.co)
2 days ago AI Apple

Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed “toxicity testing”, but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face (www.404media.co)
5 days ago Microsoft GitHub

A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (www.404media.co)
10 days ago AI

A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating (www.404media.co)
11 days ago

Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoMe discovered (www.404media.co)
17 days ago AI

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use (www.404media.co)
24 days ago Google AI

A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices (www.404media.co)
24 days ago AI

Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor (www.404media.co)
24 days ago

Texas Sues xHamster and Chaturbate (www.404media.co)
2024-3-22 Texas

Facebook's Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms (www.404media.co)
2024-3-20 Facebook AI Algorithm

Searches for “As of my last knowledge update”, a phrase often used by ChatGPT, return 115 results on Google Scholar, suggesting the use of AI tools in papers (www.404media.co)
2024-3-19 Google AI

Unionized YouTube music workers learn they were laid off at a meeting where Austin city council was considering calling on Google to bargain with their union (www.404media.co)
2024-3-2 Google YouTube

Internal docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools (www.404media.co)
2024-2-28

At a legislative hearing in Oregon, an Apple executive opposed a strong right-to-repair bill, despite Apple's support for a similar but weaker law in California (www.404media.co)
2024-2-10 Apple California

A look at OnlyFake, an underground site that claims to use “neural networks” to make highly convincing fake IDs for just $15; one ID passed verification on OKX (www.404media.co)
2024-2-6

Binance left a cache of code, infrastructure diagrams, passwords, and more on a public GitHub repository for months; GitHub removed after Binance's request (www.404media.co)
2024-2-1 GitHub

After fake AI images of Taylor Swift went viral, Microsoft adds safeguards to its AI text-to-image tool Designer; Microsoft couldn't verify if Designer was used (www.404media.co)
2024-1-30 Microsoft AI

An investigation details a spy tool called Patternz, which can track billions of phone profiles via ads in hundreds of thousands of apps, including 9gag and Kik (www.404media.co)
2024-1-25

These Are the Notorious NSA Furby Documents Showing Spy Agency Freaking Out About Embedded AI in Children's Toy (www.404media.co)
2024-1-24 AI

Google News is boosting sites that use AI to rip off other outlets and churn out content; Google says News doesn't focus on whether articles are by humans or AI (www.404media.co)
2024-1-19 Google AI

Pornhub changes its performer verification policy, requiring performers to upload proof of consent from scene partners, in addition to IDs, starting January 23 (www.404media.co)
2024-1-19

Google News surfaces sites that use AI to rip-off other outlets and churn out content; Google says it doesn't focus on whether articles are by humans or AI (www.404media.co)
2024-1-19 Google AI

Researchers studying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search results over a year: search engines are losing the cat and mouse game of SEO spam, likely boosted by AI (www.404media.co)
2024-1-17 Google AI

Is Your Local Police Department Using Fusus AI-Enabled Cameras? Find Out Here (www.404media.co)
2024-1-17 AI

Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple (www.404media.co)
2024-1-12 Google Apple Ban

An investigation finds over 1,600 YouTube videos featuring celebrity deepfakes promoting Medicaid and Medicare scams; the videos have over 195M views in total (www.404media.co)
2024-1-10 YouTube Medicare

Pornhub blocks access in two more states, Montana and North Carolina, in protest of the states' age verification laws (www.404media.co)
2024-1-3

Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life' (www.404media.co)
2023-12-25

Cox Media Group claims it can listen to conversations of consumers through microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices and use it to target ads (www.404media.co)
2023-12-15

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