"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.

iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.

The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.

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After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.

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An a16z article argues that enshittification isn’t real and that people actually love social media.

How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.

Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.

An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.

Nonconsensual AI images are getting much harder to spot.

“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”

The past, present, and future of deepfakes, as seen by the world’s leading expert on synthetic media.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company.

Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.

“I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.”

As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.

Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.

Join us for our latest FOIA Forum where we teach you how to pry records from the government.

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.

”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.

Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.

My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.

Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.

The leaderboard, sorted by executive and the teams underneath them, has a feature that shows users which employees have not earned the badges. “click to see who 👀,” the leaderboard says.

The judge found that Meta’s attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees “strains credulity.”

A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.

Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

Emanuel talks to Devindra Hardawar about AI in Hollywood and the state of the movie industry.

Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.

Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.