New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

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Hey, hi, teacher here, the fuck you mean “most”?

The most hostile user experience from Google is when you search YouTube and in the results they show you videos COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the words you typed. WTF. That's like distracting someone so they forget why they went into a room.

FUCK AI

New favourite website just dropped. That's the fun way to look at it. The not so fun way to look at is the massive sinkhole of resources that could have gone to curing cancer research, renewable energy implementation etc. and all the other things that the AI CEOs like to claim AI will solve. #NoAI

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When you're trying to fall asleep on Day 0 before a con but just closing your eyes does not equal rest lol

Good design and experiences are INTENTIONAL. There is no value-add to switching to 'AI' for a company that has been doing deliveries for nearly 70 years and got it figured out.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Meta is also logging its employees actions on their computers so they can use the behaviors in the data set for an AI. If you still work for a tech company with policies like this, you are digging your own grave.

I don't think we humiliated the glassholes enough.

Rep. Adam Smith getting Bellevue to make protest illegal.

Right here in our own backyard, someone signed off on this shitty research that would have teachers recording their preschool students for 'AI' models. The project was shelved thanks to backpack but JFC what other research is going on??

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL how did this happen a second time?? I would think if I were scheduled to make a commencement speech I would've heard that praising AI got boos 🤣

Pick on someone your own size.

Your regular reminder that right here in WA (and really several high schools around the nation), students are the victims of 'nudify' apps. But instead of going after the AI industry enabling what is essentially CSAM at scale, decision makers got phones banned.

Five publishers and an author filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and founder Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the tech giant violated copyright law by training its generative AI platform on millions of illegally pirated books and articles.

If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more

I never got into Spotify but I did stream on YouTube Music, but I quit that and that means there's hope you can too. Now I just buy mp3s/ogg/flac direct from artists or on Bandcamp and just play it through an mp3 player app. Try VLC.

The broligarchy needs to be locked up for violating privacy, allowing our personal data to leak, stealing images, text, audio, and video for their slop machine.

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

Not only should the US follow suit and tax the companies, but they should fine then a percentage of their revenue for all their privacy issues. As it stands, fines for companies allowing customer data to leak or for other privacy issues are so insignificant, companies just do whatever they want.

If you or someone you know are tired of Windows at this point and want an affordable Linux-based desktop to do basic things like web browsing and some word processing we've got a selection of Dell Optiplexes loaded and ready to go!

Gen 'AI' only exists to enable corporations to be more shitty.

You can't handle the truth.

Democrat leadership and mainstream media journalists bowing to the fascists.

My Pokopia villagers when I beat them at hide-and-seek without transforming.

So 75% of the code is *guaranteed* to break and need fixing... on top of code that already breaks lol Tech companies are prioritizing all the wrong metrics. It's like, before gen-AI, thinking more lines of code written means the code is better.

Private equity eventually kills everything it touches. That's what happened to JOANN's and Toys'r'Us, just to make a few.

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Happy Monday. Today we're making a few updates/announcements. First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web. etch-humanity.org ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity. ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.

Exciting and good news from the Glaze/Nightshade UChicago team! They are releasing a new non-profit, ETCH, whose mission is specifically to assist and prioritize humans in this GenAi era! One of the first public releases of ETCH is Quicksilver, an solid GenAi detector for music!

JFC what is there to gain by posting genAI slop of the crowd size? The No Kings Seattle march took about 2 hours from start until the last people arrived at Seattle Center. It was huge. If you could not attend for one reason or another, you are not entitled to use genAI to spread fake images.

The Hollywood executive dream that AI will revolutionize how movies are made or that they can lean on user generated AI slop to drive costs down is not going to work and is already a disaster www.404media.co/disneys-open...

FINALLY. ONE CLANKER DOWN.

It was so fun wearing Phos again and I love this shot from @mrdang.photos 🤩 everyone brought such neat lighting setups that we got to share and work with together! so wholesome!! ; w ; #phoscosplay #landofthelustrous #housekinokuni

The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder [...] that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

This is the peak method of playing Pokopía & you cannot convince me otherwise I am wearing laying-down glasses on top of my prescription glasses. Glasses here: amzn.to/4bgJR48 #gaming #pokopia

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"ok hear me out, what if we poured billions into this tech instead of education and we monetized 'intelligence' as a subscription instead?"

Remember how the FBI targeted MLK?

Find Glassholes in your area!

You never know when you can get on TV so have your sound bites ready lol

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Yeah so that Ring ad that aired at the Super Bowl about 'Search Party?" 404 Media now has proof that it won't just be used to locate dogs... www.404media.co/leaked-email...

People have been making games LONG before genAI slop. Yet these video game companies make excuses like they're gonna go bankrupt if they don't use 'AI' placeholder assets. Skill issue. Bookmark the hall of shame: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...