Google and Amazon's AIs say that Hitler's Mein Kampf is a "true work of art"
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Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.
New from 404 Media: powerful Chinese AI video generators have unleashed a new flood of nonconsensual porn. All it takes is one image of someone to create an entire porn video. This isn't deepfakes, we're far beyond that. These systems lack the most basic guardrails
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Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn
A new crop of AI video generators is producing an endless stream of nonconsensual AI generated porn.
New from 404 Media: buying this $250 ID from the tropical nation of Palau allows you to bypass U.S. crypto laws. The law blocks certain exchanges and limits trades. I bought the ID, verified it works for making accounts on crypto exchanges. Traders are doing this.
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Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws
U.S. traders are buying 'digital residency' in Palau to skirt restrictions on the amount of cryptocurrency they can withdraw and the exchanges they...
I wrote about the UK's backdoor demand to Apple, and the (I think wrong) takes that Apple should have just pulled out of the UK entirely. I think Apple did the best option available to it from a series of bad choices, and ultimately protected its worldwide users
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Behind the Blog: Stunt Blogging and the 'Fuck It' Paradigm
This week, we discuss stunt blogging, Signal pains, and murderous Reels.
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New from 404 Media: a widespread error on Instagram suddenly turned peoples' Reels feeds into a never-ending stream of horrific violence, animal abuse, murders, dead bodies, and other gore. Users wondering what the hell is going on. Some examples [warning]:
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Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence
“Today’s algorithm showed me around 70 murders, 100+ accidents, and around 115 violence videos, is anyone on Instagram noticing it?”
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New: Bluesky deleted the AI protest video of Trump sucking Musk's toes, calling it 'non-consensual explicit material'. Now after we published, Bluesky has put it back. "re-evaluating the newsworthy context, the moderation team is reinstating those posts."
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Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material'
Bluesky has deleted the most viral post reporting on an internal government protest agains the President of the United States and the world's riche...
Y Combinator is supporting an AI startup that is dehumanizing factory workers. In a video for the startup called Optifye[.]ai, a boss yells at a worker calling him just a number. Y Combinator has deleted its recent LinkedIn and X posts congratulating the company
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Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
Optifye.ai's pitch includes a video where a "boss" yells at a "worker" by calling him a number, and sarcastically saying he's having a bad month.
In what might be the perfect 404 Media story of AI, politics, hacking, and feet: AI video of Trump sucking Musk's toes was blasted on government office TVs today
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AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs
“LONG LIVE THE REAL KING," said the video showing an AI-generated Musk getting his feet sucked by Trump.
New from 404 Media: all 50 states have introduced right to repair legislation. Not all have passed, but it's just a massive milestone for the right to repair movement that just a few years ago was demonized by big tech
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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the...
New from 404 Media: source familiar with engineers spending days of their time scanning .gov sites for "transgender" and other terms. "It is not efficient to take engineers off their work to scan old content for any keywords this new administration hates."
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'The Bigotry Is Astounding:' Engineers Waste Time and Money Scanning .Gov Sites for 'Transgender' and Other Terms
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is wasting workers’ time and taxpayer dollars.
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