New from 404 Media: researchers planned to stick cameras on preschool teachers to then train AI models. Cameras would capture everything the teacher saw, including, obviously, the children. Here's the document given to parents, left many questions, like how to opt out www.404m…
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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
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
Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI 404media.co
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NEW: 'BusPatrol' put AI cameras in tens of thousands of school buses to catch people who overtake parked buses. Now, according to leaked documents, BusPatrol plans to scan all license plates buses pass and give that data to law enforcement. Think, Flock on wheels www.404media.…
An app that uses AI to analyze photos of your poop and give a "daily gut health score" is now trying to sell that dataset of annotated photos of peoples' poop. Highlights the underground sale of highly sensitive, app-collected user data for AI training www.404media.co/ai-poop-…
ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. 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. This is what the future of AI actually looks like www.404media.co/lobotomized-...
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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 is using AI to listen to emergency room visits. Spoke to someone who recently took their elderly parent to hospital. Only later saw the disclosure on the wall: everything recorded so AI could take notes. It's opt-out, not opt-in, if you even see the notice www.404m…
“I’m submitting my resignation effective May 29th. I can’t take it anymore. The threats. The ‘I’m gonna tar and feather you.’ I hope you get bit by ah […] it’s so disgusting,” treasurer Jennifer Zink said between sobs at the end of a two hour township meeting. www.404media.co/…
The guy who sued 27 women, one man, and several platforms 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 👍 www.404media.co/are-w…
People are winning the fight against AI data centers Watch, subscribe here for more conversation like this every single week www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twr...
The owner of an app that uses AI to scan peoples' poop is now trying to sell the database of peoples' poop Watch, subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...
Here's how a company plans to turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles, constantly scanning the license plates of all vehicles they pass and make that searchable data available to law enforcement Watch the full conversation and subscribe here: youtu.be/5bWevtJjlkc?...