And more crucially, it was opt-out, instead of opt-in. Meaning if you wanted to make sure your child wasn't being recorded and processed by AI, you needed to take your own steps. www.404media.co/researchers-...
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Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI 404media.co
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Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops 404media.co
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop 404media.co
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Mayo Clinic is Using AI to Listen to Emergency Room Visits 404media.co
Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats 404media.co
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain 404media.co
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ 404media.co
Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI 404media.co
How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart 404media.co
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BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the school buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data—turning the buses into roaming surveillance vehicles. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/buspa…
Into the mess that is the app PoopCheck, that asks users to share their stool photos to be analyzed by AI. Also, they're selling the database of photos. www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...
“It's making me dumber for sure.” www.404media.co/software-dev...
ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...
Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse.
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Character.AI's PipSqueak model now prioritizes safety over creative depth, reversing the capabilities that built its user base.
- Following the 'Moderatedpocalypse,' users report constant memory resets and broad blocks on roleplay scenarios that previously functioned normally.
- Character.AI has not publicly explained the PipSqueak capability trade-offs, and affected users are migrating to open-source forks and competitors.
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Mayo Clinic has been using Ambient Listening for a couple years at this point, but not all patients may be aware the recording is ongoing. www.404media.co/mayo-clinic-...
“It’s horrible. I can’t do it anymore,” Zink continued. “I have two boys. I don’t need to deal with this. I have my personal stuff at home to deal with. I don’t need […] my life threatened or to be told ‘I hope you die a premature death.’ www.404media.co/township-lea...
"What’s driving me crazy is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...
"AI SUCKS!" www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
The guy who sued 27 women after users in a Facebook group called him “clingy” and “psycho” had his case against Meta dismissed after a judge suggested that his attorney filed AI-generated errors and non-existent citations. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404medi…
After five teen girls were targeted by AI-generated child sexual abuse material, this US high school has become a case study in how schools and police around the country grapple with CSAM deepfakes. www.404media.co/radnor-high-...