Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Brainrot and Brain Power Hours
This week, we discuss the death of Mr. Deepfakes, introducing kids to the Manosphere, and working on big, difficult, high-brain-power scoops.
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Dora the Explorer Teaches About ‘Sigma,’ an Extremely Toxic Male Aspiration
Nickelodeon’s cartoon character tells kids why it’s cool to be a kind of toxic male that comes from the darkest corners of the manosphere.
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.
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100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone
An open AI video generation model that was released last month is now being used by thousands of people to generate nonconsensual sexual videos of real people.
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Mr. Deepfakes, the Biggest Deepfake Porn Site on the Internet, Says It’s Shutting Down for Good
The biggest site for nonconsensual deepfake porn on the internet says it’s shutting down and not coming back.
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Behind the Blog: The News Hits Different
This week, we discuss eyebrow-raising apps, more media mess, and lovingly gazing at AI slop.
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Polygon Acquired by Porn Mogul Who Co-Founded Brazzers
Before he founded Valnet, Hassan Youssef started one of the biggest porn sites on the internet.
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Researchers Say the Most Popular Tool for Grading AIs Unfairly Favors Meta, Google, OpenAI
Chatbot Arena is the most popular AI benchmarking tool, but new research says its scores are misleading and benefit a handful of the biggest companies.
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Kickstarter Introduces ‘Tariff Manager Tool’ to Add Charges to Already Fully Funded Projects
Kickstarter projects have the option of asking backers for more money in order to manage the costs of Trump’s tariffs.
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Behind the Blog: Feeling Smart Along the Way
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. This week, we discuss cheating in job interviews, "scary good" surveillance tech, and prudes in payment processing.
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Payment Processors Force AI Site Civitai to Remove Incest and Diapers
Civitai is also demonetizing content featuring the likeness of real people and making it harder to find.
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Hackers are Injecting Mass Shooting Videos Into Random StarCraft 2 Matches
Players are reporting seeing graphic videos and hate symbols hacked into the game.