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404 Media

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it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
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Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. www.404media.co/inside-proje...

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats 404media.co
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  • OpenAI's internal program codenamed Project Lily pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT prompts and grade the chatbot's replies.
  • Reviewers rate four ChatGPT responses on a one-to-seven scale and can see a 'user memories summary' that may reveal past use and rough location.
  • OpenAI's Privacy Filter model tries to redact personal information before prompts reach reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 132 ↻ 67 ↩ 10 · 17 from the directory shared this · 29d ago

“Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
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  • ISBNdb is brokering bulk purchases of printed books published before 2022, pitching them as training data structurally guaranteed to be free of AI-generated slop.
  • The service advertises strict NDAs on every engagement, conceding that 'AI company destroys two million books' is not a sympathetic headline.
  • Judge William Alsup already ruled that Anthropic's practice of buying, scanning, and destroying print books was 'clearly transformative' fair use.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 194 ↻ 94 ↩ 8 · 14 from the directory shared this · 85d ago

Looking at what’s happened to Character.ai is useful insofar as it shows the type of enshittification that is increasingly coming to AI tools across the entire sector and the associated user backlash. www.404media.co/lobotomized-...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 73 ↻ 21 ↩ 4 · 9 from the directory shared this · 143d ago

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 278 ↻ 122 ↩ 7 · 14 from the directory shared this · 43d ago

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified 404media.co
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  • Human contractors grading Microsoft Copilot image edits report being flooded with upskirt photos, sexualized edits of real women, and pro-anorexia content.
  • Reviewers see a user's original prompt, the uploaded photo, and two AI-generated edits, then pick the better one on gut feel.
  • Microsoft cites its terms of use for reusing customer data; Prolific, identified as one hiring firm, did not respond to 404 Media.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 339 ↻ 136 ↩ 17 · 10 from the directory shared this · 8d ago

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-lo…

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft 404media.co
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 497 ↻ 223 ↩ 17 · 11 from the directory shared this · 22d ago

Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool. www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius 404media.co
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  • Leaked logs quantify scraping per platform: 2M+ YouTube clips, 62,117 Pond5 hours, 12,287 Deezer hours, 17,615 Genius hours, and roughly 1M podcast hours.
  • Suno publicly called the breach 'limited' and 'quickly contained' while withholding notification from customers whose emails, phone numbers, and Stripe records were exposed.
  • TechCrunch flags a distinct DMCA angle: deliberately circumventing YouTube's anti-scraping protections is a separate violation from copyright infringement in the underlying suits.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 240 ↻ 107 ↩ 6 · 10 from the directory shared this · 85d ago
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So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:

View on Bluesky · ♥ 471 ↻ 152 ↩ 50 · 20d ago

Quick tutorial on how to opt out of Meta's new feature which allows anyone to tag your Instagram handle to generate AI images of you. @evystadium.bsky.social on Muse Image in 40 seconds:

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A Canadian lawmaker is facing backlash online after delivering a speech in New Brunswick's Legislative Assembly that seemingly included an AI prompt. "I'm Ron Burgundy?" some commenters reacted on Reddit.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 206 ↻ 68 ↩ 7 · 87d ago
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