In a deepfake nightmare, an alleged stalker is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searched for "undress" apps and "ai porn."
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A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families
An Ohio man is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searche...
New from 404 Media: Flock has cut off cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia from national lookups after our investigations and others based on our reporting. Comes after we revealed cops doing lookups for ICE and an abortion case. Massive changes to this tech
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Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reachin...
Turns out all the major LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama 3) struggle to understand Gen Alpha phrases, like "let him cook", "ate that up", "got ratioed", "secure the bag" etc. Research paper written by a soon-to-be 9th grader
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AI Models And Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’
LLMs are not familiar with “ate that up,” “secure the bag,” and “sigma,” showing that training data is not yet updated to Gen Alpha ter...
Echoing everything Seamus says here. He spends massive amount of time digging through court records to find interesting ones. He shares with us. Other outlets then don't credit. They include referral links, showing they ripped us off. You think we won't notice? 🤡
Court Watch
Shaming the Internet
We’re not mad, just disappointed. But also, mad.
New from 404 Media: A judge ruled Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset and "forever" library, but training its AI on those books without authors' permission constitutes fair use under copyright law
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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the f...
Massive creator platform Fansly just banned furries
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Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries
Blaming payment processor restrictions, Fansly—a platform creators flocked to after OnlyFans announced it'd ban sex—announced it's changing the...
New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
Recently Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta was building an AI data center so large its size would be equivalent to a significant part of Manhattan. What Zuckerberg did not mention was the constructions of 3 new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants
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'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
Lots of 404 Media on John Oliver last night. We have been covering AI slop like no one else, including how people make money doing it and platforms like Meta are paying people to produce this crap:
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Here is the video for our latest FOIA Forum, where we explained in detail how we got records from police departments—this time about a company selling AI personas posing as protesters to cops. There is something in here for people new to FOIA or veterans
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Here's the Video for Our Sixth FOIA Forum: Massive Blue
Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we explained how we got records about Massive Blue, a company selling AI personas to cops.