“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.

The former Prime Minister presented research claiming AI could reduce the public sector workforce. It’s largely based on a ChatGPT-4 output.

“While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

Columbia University allowed police to storm campus Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner accused student protestors of using an "industrial" chain to barricade doors.

"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."

“It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims,” one Redditor wrote.

They are joining a recent boom of publications owned and operated by the reporters and editors themselves.

A market for manipulating Reddit using AI have emerged.

404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck...

Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.

“We're just the largest database of repair information in the world, no big deal if they take it all without asking and swamp our servers in the process.”

After 404 Media reported on the service last week, Discord has now shut down a mass of scraping accounts and says it is considering legal action.

r/MonsterGirl members are tired of AI-generated slop in its subreddit.

Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.

Team Fortress 2’s botting problem has escalated to doxing, swatting, and defaming people who call attention to it.

"Looking at it now, this looks like a bad schoolyard video game urban legend. But it is real."

The conservative outlet's bankruptcy filings show a company with lots of revenue and few expenses.

As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.

An extension for a popular Stable Diffusion graphical user interface on Github appears to have been stealing users’ login credentials.

An internal Google database obtained by 404 Media shows Google recording childrens' voices, saving license plates from Street View, and many other self-reported incidents, large and small.

Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”

After years of searching, a team of researchers have solved a 4chan mystery.

In the last year, the number of websites specifically restricting OpenAI and other AI scraper bots has gone through the roof.

A proposed exemption to the DMCA would give researchers permission to break terms of service on AI tools to expose bias, training data, and potentially harmful outputs.

The ability to produce infinite images powered by datasets containing millions of photographs of real people, including children, and real images of real CSAM, perpetuates abuse in a way that was...

Microsoft's Bing Image Creator lets beloved characters fly planes toward tall buildings, illustrating the struggles of generative AI models have with copyright and filtering.

At the Aria, Bellagio, and MGM Grand, evidence of the massive ransomware hack is everywhere, if you're looking for it.

A leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows company-wide effort collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated content for training data.

Organizations are now openly broadcasting the once dirty secret of the location data industry: it can be used to track specific people.

Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at...

Luma Labs’ Dream Machine, an AI video generator that’s on the market before OpenAI’s Sora, can be tricked to generate explicit videos.

Entropic Engineering, the small company that helped manufacture this year’s DEF CON badge, claims the conference organizers failed to pay for completed work. DEF CON says the company went well over...

Bitcoin, Telegram, and Instagram. All were involved in a recent murder-for-hire and extortion plot in New York City.

Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.

Google Search is providing promoted links to nonconsensual AI “undress” apps.

“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”

K-pop group NewJeans is attempting to sue the anonymous user of a YouTube account for defamation, but cannot proceed without obtaining their identity.

Documentary filmmakers were publishing guidelines on how to ethically use generative AI right as Netflix’s true crime doc was adding fake images to the historical record.

Internal emails, Slack conversations and documents obtained by 404 Media show how Nvidia created a yet-to-be-released video foundational model.

The researchers claim they could see “all Rabbit R1 responses ever given."

The tool relies on Telegram's opt-in "Find People Nearby" feature, but allows searches for Telegram users globally.

Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure.

NYPD was able to spin out a hype video in less than 24 hours, which is notable because New York City has been horrendously slow to producing public records they are obligated by law to provide to the...

The Marubo people written about by the New York Times have been using the internet—and grappling with its implications—long before Starlink came to their village.

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The Humane Ai Pin joins a rich tradition of terrible tech products that includes the Juicero, Coolest Cooler, and Magic Leap that we must remember forever.

The record industry has filed a list of thousands of songs it believes have been scraped without permission, and has recreated versions of famous songs using Udio and Suno.

"NEO carries an onboard computer and antenna array that will allow officers the ability to create a ‘denial-of-service’ event to disable ‘Internet of Things’ devices that could potentially cause harm...

Hundreds of sites have put old Anthropic scrapers on their blocklist, while leaving a new one unblocked.

The problem with profit and engagement driven misinformation from pseudo-OSINT accounts during the Israel-Palestine conflict is "unprecedented." One expert said after Musk's recent changes "all hell...

"Actually, I’m pulling into my doctor’s office, actually, so, just give me one second. I’m parking right now," the defendant said.

"Amazon shifted gears so that it now litters its storefront with pay-to-play advertisements. In addition to overcharging its customers, Amazon is degrading the services it provides them."

The leak made its way to Reddit, which teased the release of a new Yoshi game in 2017.

Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

For $50 a prescription, a freelancer overseas will call pharmacies in your area to find Adderall and weight loss drugs like Mounjaro or WeGovy.

“Obviously this is a great fit for abusers,” an expert on domestic violence and cybersecurity said.

“The Company remains unable to access the 98f Wallet. The investigation continues.”

The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.

The contract requires repair shops to "immediately disassemble" devices that have parts "not purchased from Samsung."

“Ultimately it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to hit a deadline,” Figma’s CEO said.

Conservatives have spent months championing Telegram as an app that more closely aligns with their values than Signal.

The newly-fabricated dispatcher, named Wayne, represents every manager who assigns incompletable routes and package loads. But he’s based in reality.

"In the DeepMind paper there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical."

The search is over for 'Everyone Knows That,' also known as 'Ulterior Motives' by Christopher Saint Booth, when it was found in the pornographic film "Angels of Passion."

As lawmakers propose federal laws about preventing or regulating nonconsensual AI generated images, they can't forget that there are at least two people in every deepfake.

The bill previously unanimously passed the state Senate, meaning right to repair is very close to passing in America's most populous state.

The latest dump includes ticket data, which means fans' tickets can be stolen if Ticketmaster doesn't reissue them. "This is really really really really bad," one broker told 404 Media.

AI-generated images of Katy Perry and Rihanna show them in beautiful gowns at the Gala, which they both did not attend.

In 15 years of new iPhone announcements, Apple had never talked about repairability, until now.

The company denied making "major changes," but users report noticeable differences in the quality of their chatbot conversations.

Salad, a company that pays gamers in Fortnite skins for their idle PCs, also generates AI porn.

The cord is detected as a "computer" and tracks “favorite videos, videos watched, and bookmarks,” as well as “Location Data, Sensor Data, Tracking Cookies Data, and Installed Apps Data.”

It’s much easier to produce AI-generated disinformation than it is to fact check it.

“To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win.’”

The LA Police Foundation claims to own the acronym "LAPD."

A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-Meter—and lots of other electronics, too.

Cici AI, an AI assistant quietly launched by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, has paused image generation after 404 Media reached out for comment.

John Binns, who was previously arrested in Turkey, is linked to the newly announced breach of AT&T which impacted “nearly all” of the company’s customers, multiple sources told 404 Media.

Science has found that writing down your feelings and performatively disposing of them can make you less angry.

After suing 27 women and multiple platforms because people he'd dated warned others not to date him, he filed a class action lawsuit against them. Now, he's headed to federal prison.

Musk’s demo of Tesla’s FSD lasted almost 20 minutes before he had to intervene to stop an accident.

A wave of robberies and other violent acts has swept across the nebulous crime culture known as Com. I watched it all unfold in real time.

A hacker claims to have also stolen source code from the call center, which they say is an antivirus scam.

AI maxers coming out in support of Vance and Trump more than they already have is not surprising given their libertarian bent.

The leaked April 2024 documents, obtained and verified by 404 Media, show Cellebrite could not unlock a large chunk of modern iPhones.

The complaint claims that Babeland and Good Vibrations websites uses Microsoft's Clarity tracking software to see what visitors searched for and bought.

A new survey attempts to quantify just how common it is for minors to AI-generate nudes of other minors.

A racist 'Zoom Bombing' group was made up of American teenagers collaborating on a Roblox-owned chat with foreign nationals, according to a criminal complaint.

"It is not about getting naked. It’s about experiencing different kind of sauna," LinkedIn's new 'saunaman' wrote.

A viral account is using off-the-shelf facial recognition tech to dox random people on the internet for the amusement of millions of viewers. One victim said they “felt a bit violated really.”