Flock left a bunch of its AI cameras exposed on the internet. We used them to track Jason www.404media.co/flock-expose...

This was such a fun pod to do!!!! Come for the aliens, stay for...Maimonides? www.404media.co/why-are-we-o...

ICE's deportation operation has a contract with a company that makes AI agents for bounty hunters www.404media.co/ice-contract...

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

this is like Neo waking up in the pod

a16z gave a million dollars to a phone farm that's flooding TikTok with AI-generated influencers. A hacker contacted 404 Media to reveal what these accounts are and what products they're promoting www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

a very revealing story about how the execs at these AI companies think about their products, and their users www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

openai has just been marked for death bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-08/disney-said-to-double-investment-in-vice-media-to-400-million

nightmare: Developer downloads reputable AI training data which no one knew contained CSAM. He uploads it to Google Drive, tripping an alarm, and his Google accounts are banned. He does everything right but was banned for months until I reached out for comment www.404media.co/a-developer-...

Updated this post with comment from Meta, which confirmed it recently started using AI recently started using AI to generate these headlines. As some readers have noted, LinkedIn and TikTok have also been doing this.

Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...

Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...

Border patrol agents are clearly recording raids with Meta glasses www.404media.co/border-patro...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

How to make "monetized USA Accounts" and how to populate them with content is an incredibly popular global YouTube side hustle type of content. Look at this:

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this: www.404media.co/americas-pol...

For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it. www.404media.co/ice-defense-...

I'm looking to talk to Tea users who were impacted by the hack we covered a few months ago. If you're one of those people please email me at [email protected] or hit me up on signal at @emanuel.404 www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Russia once hyped the Kinzhal as an invincible superweapon. Now Ukraine is downing them by blasting it with music and making it think it's in Peru

the CEO of OnlyFans posted earlier this month on LinkedIn that the platform is partnering with Checkr to check criminal records of new creators, as part of the onboarding process www.404media.co/onlyfans-bac...

we're doing an additional interview podcast every week now. For my first, I talked to @jasonschreier.bsky.social about how and why the video game business has changed so much in recent years www.404media.co/the-video-ga...

This was a really great conversation between 404 Media's @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and Bloomberg's @jasonschreier.bsky.social about the existential crisis facing the video game industry, and especially what is happening with Microsoft/Xbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ydF...

New: this app lets ICE track vehicles and owners across the country. ICE uses phone to scan license plates, add to a database of billions of records. Thomson Reuters then enriches that with marriage, voter, other info. Can predict where a car will be in the future www.404media.co/this-app-let...

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

OpenAI's "guardrails" for copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book. OpenAI will never stop Sora from doing copyright infringement because the AI generator was built with stolen content. www.404media.co/openai-cant-...

Here are some more examples. These whistles come with an immigrant rights hotline, instructions on how to warn people. 3D printing is “a way to show a little extra solidarity, because it's being made for a specific purpose.” www.404media.co/the-latest-d...

as part of the @datarescueproject.org & @SafeguardingResearch, the project has collected more than 10k signs and counting "The administration was asking for the public to weigh in. Okay then... We the people of America are going to say we think this is important." www.404media.co/podcast-a-ma...

New from 404 Media: a small town is fighting a $1.2 billion AI datacenter for America's nuclear weapon scientists. It is fighting the construction of a "high-performance computing facility" that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away. www.404media.co/a-small-town...

today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...

is a hot dog a sandwich? is cereal soup? is ravioli, dumplings? are glasses iphones????

Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest www.404media.co/the-future-o...

Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

imagine being in charge of the deadliest weapons ever know to the world, not getting paid, and finding out from social media that you're gonna have to resume testing said weapons

despite the shutdown, the Secretary of Energy said he was able to find SOMETHING to pay contractors .... just not federal employees.

"There is no upside" - @mattkorda.bsky.social

several people have emailed us to say that the sudden shut down of a giant book distributor is making public libraries scramble for books www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

could not agree more

“pure dystopian creep.” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...

the 2025 cohort of a16z-backed AI startups is a forecast for all the ways AI is going to ruin your life in the near future www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

grokipedia is not going to make it because it lacks everything that made wikipedia useful and popular www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

On Friday a Goodreads mod went rogue and called the site out for censoring reviews of Eric Trump's new book

this convinced me to watch it www.404media.co/house-of-dyn...

new pfp for @mjgault.bsky.social imo www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

thank you @mjgault.bsky.social for doing some fashion blogging for us www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

Another case of a widely used dataset for AI training containing child sexual abuse material www.404media.co/ai-dataset-f...