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Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams
Facebook

Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams

Here is how I found hardcore porn, pirated content, malware, and endless scams on Facebook: I typed “Katy Perry” into the search bar.
Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds
Amazon

Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds

The report finds that Amazon workers in robotic warehouses feel more isolated at work, which makes it difficult to unionize.
Laws About Deepfakes Can’t Leave Sex Workers Behind
Deepfakes

Laws About Deepfakes Can’t Leave Sex Workers Behind

As lawmakers propose federal laws about preventing or regulating nonconsensual AI generated images, they can't forget that there are at least two people in every deepfake.
Viral ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ Image Came From Facebook Group to Make ‘AI Industry Prosper’
All Eyes on Rafah

Viral ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ Image Came From Facebook Group to Make ‘AI Industry Prosper’

The version that went viral on Instagram had a watermark that said it was AI-generated removed.
All Eyes on Rafah’s Virality Creates Market for AI Spam About Palestine
Rafah

All Eyes on Rafah’s Virality Creates Market for AI Spam About Palestine

AI images and AI spam variations of 'All Eyes on Rafah' are now flooding Facebook and Instagram.
AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Is Not a ‘Victimless Crime’
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AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Is Not a ‘Victimless Crime’

The ability to produce infinite images powered by datasets containing millions of photographs of real people, including children, and real images of real CSAM, perpetuates abuse in a way that was previously impossible. 
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
Google

Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."
University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make
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University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make

Emory University gave students a $10,000 entrepreneurial prize for their AI startup, then suspended them and accused them of cheating when they built it.
FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
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FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

He allegedly used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative AI model, to create “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors,” prosecutors said.
AI Chatbot Credited With Preventing Suicide. Should It Be?
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AI Chatbot Credited With Preventing Suicide. Should It Be?

A recent Stanford study found that some people credit Replika for saving their lives. But chatbots can be unpredictable, and users have also blamed the chatbot app for throwing them into mental crises.
AI Generated Hentai Is Viral All Over Facebook
AI

AI Generated Hentai Is Viral All Over Facebook

While reporting this story, a 404 Media article *about* AI-generated porn was deleted by Facebook.
OpenAI’s GPT-4o Isn’t ‘Her,’ It’s ‘Metropolis’
OpenAI

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Isn’t ‘Her,’ It’s ‘Metropolis’

With OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4 Omni, all anyone can talk about is how AI girlfriends are going to end the world. But they've been seen as a harbinger of chaos for a long, long time.