NEW: ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

Mayo Clinic is using AI to listen to emergency room visits. Spoke to someone who recently took their elderly parent to hospital. Only later saw the disclosure on the wall: everything recorded so AI could take notes. It's opt-out, not opt-in, if you even see the notice www.404media.co/mayo-clinic-...

ICYMI: @kyle-rempfer.bsky.social FOIA'd the Air Force's report on Aaron Bushnell, the airman who set himself on fire in protest of the war in Gaza. There is a ton of previously unreported info here, including his work for the NSA and several details of his life. taskandpurpose.com/news/airman-...

A guy made an app that analyzes pictures of its users' poop ostensibly for health reasons. He is then turning those photos into a tagged database for AI training that he has been advertising for sale on Reddit: www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

bradish back btw

All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...

O’s are gonna put up like 8 runs today

wrote about my new favorite topic: extremely bad billionaire vanity podcasts www.404media.co/washington-p...

my new cope is that heston kjerstad and jackson holliday, who is 0-10 on his rehab assignment, are going to save the season

i find the fiber optic drone stuff to be wildly fascinating www.404media.co/war-and-data...

software developers say being forced to vibe code at their jobs is making them forget how to actually code www.404media.co/software-dev...

Google, Microsoft, and Meta brag about how most of their code is AI-generated now. The developers generating that code say it sucks and that it's making the stupid www.404media.co/software-dev...

"It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.” www.404media.co/software-dev...

side note: at least WaPo didn’t buy views, which is what all the venture capital firm vanity podcasts do to not embarrass themselves

Taylor Ward fouling off 400 fastballs down the middle in order to strike out looking on a fastball down the middle

this is actually (actually!) far and away one of their most popular episodes:

why are kale stems so sharp

getting emails like this multiple times a day at this point

the daily is trash, I avoid it like the plague. I have like a visceral negative physical reaction to hearing the daily

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

me when im not fine

the vibe shift needed is for the orioles to coremaxx or die. bring back holliday this weekend, play colton in CF, beavers in RF everyday. let mayo strikeout 500 times. this team is not doing anything with weston wilson and leody taveras and jeremiah jackson getting this many ABs. trust your players

wow you were all so rude to our king

how to beat the orioles: be left handed throw sweepers at their ankles

I'm such a huge fan of Natasha Schull's work and I had such a good time talking to her for the pod! www.404media.co/how-the-worl...

checking in on SNARF www.buzzfeed.com/jonah/the-an...

I just clicked through some of these YouTube videos and they’re as if you took people who didn’t know how to speak or where they are and airdropped them into a nondescript conference room with the video production and editing capabilities of your average local city council

What so many have experienced personally has been confirmed by a new study: AI has been a disaster for working artists.

extreme lol: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

read the room! www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

This Keegan Akin hype video is the best TikTok I’ve seen in a long time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkvPK1oE/

what on earth is this white sox logo I legit did not know what team this was

Basallo walkoff

I prefer good kyle Bradish big fan

900k of revenue is an astounding number

they’re discriminating against the data centers www.404media.co/university-c...

The Canvas hack is truly terrifying and could have all kinds of knock-on effects. Student messages to professors can be particularly sensitive. @linkletter.org helps contextualize this: www.404media.co/the-biggest-...

my elderly dog appears to have zero interest in being alive but his preferred method of death is trying to attack Rottweilers and other such animals that are 3x his size and half his age

well... well... WELL www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

this is why cowser should be playing p much every day—he made that look easy but it was not easy. he will maybe one day learn how to hit an offspeed pitch

how big is this fuckin stadium

tired complaint but mlb app / mlb tv this year is sooooooo buggy and bad. noticeably worse. i'm stopping and restarting my streams multiple times an inning, sometimes multiple times an out at this point

Forearm discomfort seeya in 2028 Cade

The most dangerous kind of gambling is buying an early season watermelon

Recently I opened up Microsoft Teams and was greeted with a deepfaked version of my own face. Here's how we got the Chinese-language software being marketed to scammers, and which can be used on WhatsApp, Zoom, other platforms. This is where fraud is right now More: www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to develop its own smart glasses to "supplement" its facial recognition app, according to a DHS official told about the plans in a meeting. A second person who attended a conference this week heard a senior ICE official discuss the plans www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

LOS ANGELES: Excited that we are partnering w LA Public Library to throw an event about how AI & slop is threatening the future of the internet, media, Hollywood Please RSVP - May 31 with @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social @dexdigi.bsky.social @samleecole.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/la-made-x-...