The well-funded and Samsung-backed AI image generator Leonardo is being used to make deepfakes of celebrities by the same people who spammed Taylor Swift deepfakes on X. Not responding to media requests etc. good stuff

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Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn

Leonardo AI, which recently raised $31 million and is one of the most popular AI image generators online, can easily be used to produce nonconsensu...

Things continue to go very well on Facebook. There are now pages that post AI-generated breastfeeding mothers so they can technically comply with FB's moderation policies. But the babies and the moms are often horrifically zombified

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Horrific AI-Generated Breastfeeding Images Bypass Facebook’s Moderation

A page called Mom Daily is using AI-generated images of mothers and babies to bypass Facebook’s rules on nudity, with some really terrifying resu...

Pornhub has just blocked itself in the state of Texas:

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Pornhub Pulls Out of Texas

All of the sites in Aylo's network, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and Brazzers, are blocked in Texas, their homepages replaced with a message about t...

my posting experience on threads is about as bad as twitter was at its worst (for me). understand my experience is different & more privileged than many but half of what i post there is flooded by humorless tech employees and fanboys spamming me with pedantry and ACTUALLYS and weird linkedin maxxers. i am having less than zero fun there. mastodon remains my only good social media experience of the last few years

BREAKING: Google formally endorses right to repair and is set to lobby to pass a strong right to repair law in Oregon. Says parts pairing (done by Apple) should be illegal

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Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws

Google says repair should be easy and "parts pairing" should be illegal.

this is a highly specific ask: I just learned that some cities have programs where they give gift cards to unhoused people, people on welfare, etc. Does anyone know any experts in this space? Anyone who would know anything more about these types of programs, who lobbies for them, whether they’re effective, etc? Working on a story and could use some help understanding the docs I’m looking at

i've been using vanilla facebook a lot for a story i'm working on and it really feels like using an ancient, unsupported technology. its UX is *horrible* and things like messenger etc load incredibly slow. astoundingly bad

Ubiquiti users saying that when they tried to log onto their own networks, they are being fed access to random users' accounts. One guy in Germany is getting security camera access /alerts from a complete stranger's cameras

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Ubiquiti Users Somehow Being Fed Access to Strangers' Security Cameras

"This is not expected behavior," Ubiquiti said on Reddit.

this by @npub1w9ay...04m0 is really good - I have been pleasantly surprised and heartened by how supportive and kind the overwhelming majority of people on Mastodon have been so far ... and then there are also the people who say we are unethical monsters for doing like, bare minimum stuff to make our website solvent, like asking for email addresses

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

Yeah, Mastodon’s Got A Reply Guy Problem

The “reply guy,” the internet-native take on Florida Man, has started to cause problems in the fediverse, and it comes down to ideology.