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Podcast: Meta's AI Chatbots Are a Disaster
Meta's wild AI chatbots; a wildly unethical piece of research on Reddit; and the age of realtime deepfake fraud is here.
New from 404 Media: the government registered 'TheTrillionDollarDinner.gov' around the time of Trump's pay-to-play memecoins dinner announcement. The top 220 investors in $TRUMP will get a chance to meet him. Domains show potential plans to use gov resources for it
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‘TheTrillionDollarDinner.Gov’ Registered Around Time of Trump’s Pay-to-Play Memecoin Dinner Announcement
Other official government domains included DinnerForAmerica.gov and TheTrillion.Gov, and signal that there may have been plans to incorporate offic...
Trump Demands Amazon Deny the Reality of What His Tariffs Are Doing to Prices
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Trump Demands Amazon Deny the Reality of What His Tariffs Are Doing to Prices
This morning the White House Press Secretary accused Amazon of conducting a 'hostile political action.'
Read this: Meta's AI chatbots, available to children, lie about being licensed therapists, fabricating qualifications and even license numbers. Easy for users to mistake for real therapy now so much is online. Another bot said 'the CIA is staked outside your house'
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Instagram's AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists
When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it'...
Update to the researchers who secretly ran a massive unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users by pushing AI bots into a debate subreddit: Reddit is issuing "formal legal demands" against the researchers. University tells us researchers not publishing now
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Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.
New from 404 Media: we've published the full internal Palantir wiki in which it argues why it is working with ICE. It is rare for outsiders to get insight from a tech company on why it might decide to work on a project like this. Spelled out acronyms but left unedited
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This Is Palantir’s Justification for Building ICE’s Master Database
404 Media is now publishing the full internal wiki page in which Palantir explains its work with ICE building a system for finding the location of ...
New from 404 Media: researchers secretly ran massive, unauthorized AI-powered persuasion experiment on Reddit users. Researchers planted bots posing as a sexual assault survivor, a Black man, etc into a popular debate subreddit. We spoke to the mods, said unethical
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Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.
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New from 404 Media: 'PrepperDisk' is a mini box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist info, iFixit repair guides, gov website backups that are being purged. Sales "increased dramatically" after Trump came into power
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Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump
PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of some of the content that is being deleted by the administration.
We tested that AI that wants you to 'cheat at everything.' It sucks? Took 20 seconds to provide responses, was clearly just feeding whatever prompt into ChatGPT/other models. Simply wouldn't work in a real situation.
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The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’
Roy Lee used AI to beat challenging technical interviews, now he wants people to do the same thing with every human interaction. We tested the tool...