News
Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government
“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”
News
Pornhub's Biggest Star Is Promoting an AI Nonconsensual 'Nudify' App
Sweetie Fox, Pornhub’s top adult content creator, made a sponsored video for a well-known nonconsensual “nudify” app.
News
Google Updates Ad Policy to Ban All AI-Generated Porn
Google will now ban all ads for “synthetic sexually explicit content,” even if the ad itself is not explicit.
News
Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts
Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are vandalizing the map with fake data in order to cheat in the game.
News
Tech Companies Promise to Try to Do Something About All the AI CSAM They’re Enabling
The biggest tech companies in the world pledge to do something about the harmful AI images they are actively enabling.
News
Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.
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Microsoft Deleted Its LLM Because It Didn’t Get a Safety Test, But Now It’s Everywhere
Microsoft deleted its WizardLM 2 LLM because it didn’t go through “toxicity testing,” but it’s already all over the internet.
AI
Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps
Some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies.
News
Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record
Documentary filmmakers were publishing guidelines on how to ethically use generative AI right as Netflix’s true crime doc was adding fake images to the historical record.
News
Gamers Are Renting Their Idle GPUs to Generate AI Porn
Salad, a company that pays gamers in Fortnite skins for their idle PCs, also generates AI porn.
News
Institute That Pioneered AI ‘Existential Risk’ Research Shuts Down
The Future of Humanity Institute, which along with philosopher Nick Bostrom taught the world to fear existential AI risks, is finished.
Announcements
Introducing the First 404 Media Fellow: Jules Roscoe
Jules will be covering labor and automation and helping our stories show up on all platforms as our first 404 Media fellow.
