Emanuel Maiberg

Emanuel Maiberg

Emanuel Maiberg is interested in little known communities and processes that shape technology, troublemakers, and petty beefs. Email him at emanuel@404media.co
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
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‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government

404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library

Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
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Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek

According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
Anthropic CEO Says Limiting China’s Access to AI Chips Is 'Existentially Important'
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Anthropic CEO Says Limiting China’s Access to AI Chips Is 'Existentially Important'

Dario Amodei argues we must limit China’s access to AI chips so we can live under all powerful American-owned AI as opposed to all powerful Chinese-owned AI.
LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs
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LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs

An AI LinkedIn profile was "open to work," boasting it’s a better worker than a human.
DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core
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DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core

Why a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model has turned the AI industry on its head.
Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump
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Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump

Some Facebook users were shocked to see Trump in their feeds yesterday, but that’s likely because they were already following official administration accounts.
Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
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Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub

Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.
Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic
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Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic

A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.
CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
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CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music

"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
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Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.