AI
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
ICE
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
News
Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
Podcast
Podcast: Grokipedia is Cringe
Why Grokipedia won't beat Wikipedia; the Windows 10 update; and a16z's plan for a wholly AI-generated internet.
News
Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."
News
a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.
Grokipedia
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
News
Rogue Goodreads Librarian Edits Site to Expose 'Censorship in Favor of Trump Fascism’
“When we let powerful people’s books be protected from criticism, we give up the right to hold power accountable.”
ICE
ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.
News
Lawsuit Accuses a16z of Turning Roblox Into a School Shooter's Playground
The family of a dead teen girl said she'd still be alive if Roblox did a better job moderating its platform.
News
'House of Dynamite' Is About the Zoom Call that Ends the World
The general who advised Netflix’s nuclear Armageddon movie doesn’t believe in abolishing nuclear weapons.
ICE
Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data
Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data.
News
Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.