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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AI Finds That AI Is Great In New Garbage Research From Tony Blair Institute
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AI Finds That AI Is Great In New Garbage Research From Tony Blair Institute

The former Prime Minister presented research claiming AI could reduce the public sector workforce. It’s largely based on a ChatGPT-4 output.
Players Celebrate Mod That Deletes Homeless People in Cities: Skylines II
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Players Celebrate Mod That Deletes Homeless People in Cities: Skylines II

“Bye Bye Homeless” fixes a bug in the city building game by deleting homeless people that players couldn’t evict or find new housing for.
Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
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Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug

“While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”
Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
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Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App

“Ultimately it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to hit a deadline,” Figma’s CEO said.
Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Tool
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Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Tool

Dozens of Fiverr sellers are advertising access to TLOxp, a potent data surveillance tool sold by credit bureau TransUnion.
Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever
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Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever

Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable Diffusion community doesn’t need the company that brought it to the world.
Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts
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Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts

CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.
I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
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I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI

Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.
Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn
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Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn

Luma Labs’ Dream Machine, an AI video generator that’s on the market before OpenAI’s Sora, can be tricked to generate explicit videos.
AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
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AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell

Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on GitHub to Protest 'Art Theft'
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Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on GitHub to Protest 'Art Theft'

An extension for a popular Stable Diffusion graphical user interface on Github appears to have been stealing users’ login credentials.
Americans Are Hiring People in the Philippines to Help Them Find Adderall
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Americans Are Hiring People in the Philippines to Help Them Find Adderall

For $50 a prescription, a freelancer overseas will call pharmacies in your area to find Adderall and weight loss drugs like Mounjaro or WeGovy.