Thanks a lot for the interview @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social! While AI has its place for specialized tools, this will be a breath of fresh air for an overwhelmed community! And my biggest hope: "Empowering communities on other platforms to decide whether AI should be welcome. On their own terms."

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Also on today's podcast, @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social goes in on Zuckerberg's failed Metaverse and its comparisons to AI. Yes, AI may stick around but it's probably not going to take all our jobs, kill the artists, and be used for reasons Big Tech wants us to believe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SI...

the more you know www.404media.co/why-its-good...

So how did people find out their Zoom calls were being secretly recorded and uploaded to WebinarTV? Well, many got an email from a "Sarah Blair"—the supposed VP of communications at the company whose profile looks AI generated. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. www.404media.co/this-company...

careful out there AI grinder geniuses www.404media.co/a-top-google...

This company is scraping your Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without permission. Extremely wild and weird www.404media.co/this-company...

this is a wild wild tale about a millionaire that seemingly got into smuggling cocaine for the thrill of it www.404media.co/an-adrenalin...

I have literally watched something like 5 hours of this DOGE bro testimony. I'm completely obsessed, it's weirdly captivating. The circular arguments, the disdain from everyone involved, a true pleasure to watch Follow 404 Media on Instagram (www.instagram.com/404mediaco/) for more like this

these kids are making Ferrari money telling people to use their app in order to stop watching porn, but they exposed their most intimate data and then lied to me about it www.404media.co/viral-quittr...

Sat down with @cecianasta.bsky.social, one of the best in the biz, to talk about Roblox's many controversies www.404media.co/understandin...

this is something we deal with on a daily basis now as reporters. unfortunately I think more and more people are going to find themselves struggling with a friend or family member who is going through "ai psychosis" www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

Thanks for the interview! My biggest worry wrt the current situation is that our remedies mostly focus on the exploited "freelancers" themselves, and we've had little luck regulating the broader structural issue. For me, the organization bears the most responsibility, not the individual translators.

low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations www.404media.co/ai-translati...

New from 404 Media: the FBI is using AI to hack targets. FBI official was talking about "remote access operations," FBI's term for hacking. FBI said it's a "game changer". The comments were unusually candid about FBI's very secretive hacking operations. www.404media.co/the-fbi-is-u...

prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible: www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

America is out of ideas. A demented president is trying to tie up all the loose boomer plot threads before he dies. fuck it bet it all on black www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

You can pay this company to scrub negative posts about you on the Tea app. The guy behind the company told me his employees, all men, have tea accounts, which is allegedly for women only www.404media.co/company-help...

the Islamic State is still around and is mostly interested in posting. It's using AI to kirkify dead leaders, trying to recruit in Roblox, and talking about Epstein to build clout so ... Daesh is just like everyone else online

New: the government just made it harder to see what spy tech it buys. This includes ICE, the FBI, essentially any agency. Why? Because they decided to retire the perfectly good system for searching contracts and replaced it with one that fucking sucks www.404media.co/the-governme...

i am actually glad david foster wallace is dead so he doesn't have to see this www.a16z.news/p/infinite-j...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Imagine a world where you can DM loved ones who have passed away over Facebook or IG using a LLM that emulates their chatting behaviors? Meta's patent is giving these researchers concern. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social www.404media.co/metas-ai-pat...

talked to a researcher studying "AI resurrections" about Meta's patent to make dead users post www.404media.co/metas-ai-pat...

New from 404 Media: how ICE and CBP are using the free walkie-talkie app Zello to coordinate their operations. We've linked multiple Zello accounts to ICE, found group chats with names referencing immigration. App previously criticized for allowing far right channels www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...

not inspiring a lot of confidence www.404media.co/meta-directo...

please don't talk to me about "maxxing" anything www.404media.co/we-have-lear...

There's an italian saying: "a pensare male si fa peccato, ma spesso si indovina," which roughly translates to: "to think badly would be to sin, but very often one gets it right." Perfect example. It's amazing how quickly Ring admitted this. And it's great to have evidence.

Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...

This is something I thought about a lot while writing this story and I hope we talk about it on the podcast today. A lot of parents need different education for their kids. Alpha School students do test well. I totally get the appeal but AI is not ready www.404media.co/students-are...

Alpha School, an "AI-powered" private school that costs as much as $65k a year, is generating faulty lesson plans and stealing content from textbooks for training data www.404media.co/students-are...

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

the future of labor is armies of gig workers babysitting robots? www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

This tech is pretty common now but I don't think people fully understand what it means that anyone including police can use it www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

had a great time talking with @patrickklepek.bsky.social about parenting, screen time, roblox, and more. Please listen so I can do more mommy blogging on 404 Media www.404media.co/the-screen-t...

what we loved about Dan McQuade defector.com/what-we-love...

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

The FBI can’t get into a Washington Post reporter’s phone, in part because it was set to Lockdown Mode. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

we're releasing a PDF of our zine about ICE's tech for free. we also translated it to Spanish. Please share far and wide! www.404media.co/icezine/

c o o l www.404media.co/musk-to-epst...

this gets an lol from me: www.404media.co/erotic-parod...

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

One of the most popular AI chatbot apps in the app stores exposes millions and millions of user conversations: www.404media.co/massive-ai-c...

Jon is joined by @josephcox.bsky.social and @radleybalko.bsky.social to discuss Palantir's advanced targeting technology and how federal agencies like ICE are using it.

we get into it on this week's (not three hours long) 404 Media podcast: youtu.be/EFv0rD9F9es?...

it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...

Jon, @radleybalko.bsky.social, and @josephcox.bsky.social are discussing the latest news from Minnesota and who’s really to blame for ICE policy on an all-new podcast, out tomorrow.

Thank you @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and @samleecole.bsky.social for speaking with adult creators like myself who are concerned about the way things are going on ManyVids

"unexplained pauses" are making dozens of critical CDC databases go dark under RFK www.404media.co/dozens-of-cd...

the meta for AI-generated influencers is getting very weird and dark www.404media.co/two-heads-th...