'Darth Vader' Wants Flock in San Diego
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole17h ago
During the public comment portion of a recent San Diego city council meeting, the council called for the next comment to take the podium: "Darth Vader?"
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57%plop scoreSubtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X
404 Mediaby Emanuel Maiberg21h ago
I can clearly remember the first time I saw a deepfake. I was waiting for the train on my way to the Vice office in 2017 when I got a Twitter DM from someone who saw it posted to Reddit.
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62%plop scoreTownship Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault21h ago
Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” on Tuesday night.
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50%plop score'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler1d ago
Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set...
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54%plop scoreAnthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler2d ago
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that future versions of Claude will generate text that includes watermarks showing it was AI-generated.
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58%plop scoreX's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault2d ago
X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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57%plop scoreThe National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox2d ago
The National Park Service (NPS), the agency tasked with managing the U.S. national parks and monuments, has purchased Flock cameras and had them installed at parks including in Yosemite.
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56%plop scorePornhub's Parent Company to Pay $120 Million to Settle Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole3d ago
Pornhub's parent company will pay $120 million to settle claims that its platforms violated federal sex trafficking and child sexual abuse imagery laws.
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53%plop score‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler3d ago
An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
404 Mediaby Emanuel Maiberg3d ago
Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.
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Behind the Blog: Endless Scam Parade
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler6d ago
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together.
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