Massive creator platform Fansly just banned furries
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Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries
Blaming payment processor restrictions, Fansly—a platform creators flocked to after OnlyFans announced it'd ban sex—announced it's changing the...
New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
Recently Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta was building an AI data center so large its size would be equivalent to a significant part of Manhattan. What Zuckerberg did not mention was the constructions of 3 new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants
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'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
Lots of 404 Media on John Oliver last night. We have been covering AI slop like no one else, including how people make money doing it and platforms like Meta are paying people to produce this crap:
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Here is the video for our latest FOIA Forum, where we explained in detail how we got records from police departments—this time about a company selling AI personas posing as protesters to cops. There is something in here for people new to FOIA or veterans
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Here's the Video for Our Sixth FOIA Forum: Massive Blue
Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we explained how we got records about Massive Blue, a company selling AI personas to cops.
In 15 mins we're doing a FOIA FORUM about how we reported a story about cops using AI-powered sockpuppet bots on social media. This is for subscribers only, we'll be taking questions about FOIA, showing examples of our requests. Link is here:
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Our New FOIA Forum! 6/18, 1PM ET
Come learn how we got records all about an AI company working with cops.
At 1PM ET today is 404 Media's latest FOIA Forum! Live-streamed event where we'll show paid subscribers how to pry records from the government, and specifically our story on the company selling AI personas to cops. Answers your Qs too. Get the link here:
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Our New FOIA Forum! 6/18, 1PM ET
Come learn how we got records all about an AI company working with cops.
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - how the airlines sold your data to DHS—and covered it up - AI scrapers hammering museum archives, taking them offline - subscribers-only: the casual surveillance relationship between ICE and local cops Apple/Spotify/YouTube:
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Podcast: Airlines Sold Your Flight Data to DHS—And Covered It Up
Airlines selling detailed flight data to DHS; how AI scrapers are hammering open archives; and the casual surveillance relationship between ICE and...
Meta invented a whole new way to humiliate its users with a feed of people's chats with AI
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Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI
In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse pr...
New from 404 Media: cops in California investigated what they called an "immigration protest" with AI-powered cameras, according to new data we obtained. Data also shows local cops around the country tapping into California cameras on behalf of ICE. This is illegal
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California Cops Investigate ‘Immigration Protest’ With AI-Camera System
New data obtained by 404 Media also shows California cops are illegally sharing Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data with other agencie...