Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public

This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
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Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public

This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist
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Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist

"What if I could create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial as if it were physically created by hand? Not actually, of course."
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
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Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
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Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin

AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.
GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking
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GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enterprise to begin with.
Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles
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Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles

Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creators.
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
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ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”
The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making
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The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.
Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’
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Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’

‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks.’
Podcast: Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI
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Podcast: Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI

Meta tells its metaverse workers to push harder with AI; the massive Discord breach; and what happened when AI came for craft beer.
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
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ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck the bot.