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OpenAI
OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny
Just two months ago, Sam Altman acknowledged that putting a “sex bot avatar” in ChatGPT would be a move to “juice growth.” Something the company had been tempted to do, he said, but had resisted.
Trump
News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.
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How Artists Are Keeping 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs Alive
Watch 404 Media’s first short documentary, about an artist keeping real neon signs alive.
News
Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
The same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials now say they have the personal data of tens of thousands of officials from the NSA, Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and many other agencies.
The Abstract
Scientists Discover Rogue Star-Eating Black Hole Far From Home
A massive black hole feasting on a star outside of a galactic nucleus was observed in bright radio waves for the first time.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
News
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."
News
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.
News
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.”
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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.
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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.
News
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.