Jason Koebler

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co

honestly, not a serious technology www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why 404media.co

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media…

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co

New: Internal Microsoft planning documents say the company's goal is to "make people addicted" to its new Scout AI assistant www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal 404media.co

Absolutely crazy: Researchers wanted to put cameras on teachers to observe the behaviors of preschool students and use the footage to train AI www.404media.co/researchers-...

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI 404media.co

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case 404media.co

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search 404media.co

A company called BusPatrol is trying to turn school buses into roving surveillance cameras: www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access 404media.co

A guy made an app that analyzes pictures of its users' poop ostensibly for health reasons. He is then turning those photos into a tagged database for AI training that he has been advertising for sale on Reddit: www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops 404media.co

Microsoft shut down a bunch of its own code repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from Claude Code or Gemini. Really wild: www.404media.co/microsoft-ha...

Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users 404media.co

Amazon employees are mocking the company's AI with memes on Slack, suggesting they're making/enabling slop: www.404media.co/sloppenheime...

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack 404media.co

Amazon's internal AI leaderboard shut down after employees cheated on it: www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...

Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated 404media.co

google has injected its gemini AI bullshit into our google docs and i just highlighted an article i wrote and told it to "refine" to see what it would do and it deleted the entire thing

our ai will let hackers steal your account, but also, on the other hand, we are using it to make useless slop

the Google Cloud AI baseball commercial is excellent because it’s about how you can use AI to make completely useless inferences about random things and ascribe false meaning to them

you should be shot into the sun if you AI generate your forum posts