It’s like they know that I need to wrap up my annual Internet Law casebook revisions in the next few weeks. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
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James Grimmelmann
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I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | OpenAI openai.com
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images 404media.co
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ 404media.co
Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist 404media.co
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com
AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever 404media.co
Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class nytimes.com
Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA 404media.co
Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits nytimes.com
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These are the days of miracle and wonder. openai.com/index/model-...
Bad content drives out good. www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
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That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...
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- Google launched an AI image feature in Google Earth on Thursday and pulled it within a day after 404 Media showed fabricated scenes.
- The tool used Nano Banana 2 to render text prompts onto real satellite data, generating fake bomb craters, nuclear sites, and protests.
- Named experts including Henk Van Ess and Ross Burley warned the launch could erode decades of built-up trust in Google Earth imagery.
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Bad content drives out good. www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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- 404 Media's Jason Koebler documents ChatGPT-designed flyers for surf lessons, skate shop closeouts, drug deliveries, World Cup parties, junk hauling and fundraisers.
- The shared look — bright text on dark backgrounds, generic icon boxes, decorative lines, arrows and checkmarks — has become so recognizable it reads as a template.
- A viral Threads post asking 'ain't nobody gonna address this ChatGPT flyer pandemic' has spread to Instagram and Facebook among designers, musicians and bar owners.
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Bad content drives out good. www.404media.co/scammers-sel...
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- Sellers on eBay, Amazon and Etsy are listing seeds for plants that do not exist, advertised with AI-generated images of impossible flowers.
- Before one eBay seller was banned, rainbow-colored rose seeds sold 37,271 times; fake teddy bear sunflower seeds sold 1,301 times.
- eBay said it has policies and controls and uses AI-supported monitoring; Amazon and Etsy did not respond to 404 Media's request for comment.
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Bad content drives out good. www.wired.com/story/future...
Bad content drives out good. www.404media.co/ai-made-clon...
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- Freya Holmér posted a 50-second rotating Tetris demo to Bluesky in March 2026 and saw up to four AI-generated mobile clones within days.
- A former Midnight Works employee told 404 Media that generative AI now accelerates the studio's cloning pipeline 'at every step,' from banners to 3D models.
- Nintendo now ranks its eShop Best Sellers by revenue rather than downloads, blunting the visibility of $2-or-less clones that game download-based charts.
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The chef’s kiss in this essay about how ambition is destroying education at Stanford is the note at the end, where we learn that the author, a Stanford senior, has a forthcoming book on the subject. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
Bad content drives out good. www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...
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- 404 Media traced a TikTok Shop cottage industry generating fake AI doctors with Google Veo 3, ElevenLabs and CapCut to sell supplements.
- Rosabella, whose products drew an FDA recall for drug-resistant salmonella in moringa powder, told creators it paid them over $400,000 in one month.
- Rival Humann sued Rosabella's parent Ambrosia Brands in February, alleging Ambrosia directed hundreds of AI-doctor TikTok Shop videos and ads.
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Bad content drives out good. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...
Bad content drives out good. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
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The Anthropic export ban is brought to you by the same people responsible for the TikTok import ban, the U.S. government Anthropic use ban, and dialing pre-release review of A.I. models from 60 days down to 30. There is no coherent underlying theory of AI regulation.
Everyone who says that you need to learn and use AI heavily right now to avoid being permanently left behind is telling you that they believe the future will feature profound and inescapable inequality and they’re okay with that.
My best guess is that the government quickly "clarifies" its position on what counts as an export or negotiates a compromise with Anthropic that defines the safeguards around acess to Fable/Mythos, so that they will continue to be available with some access controls, even if they're somewhat leaky.
Anthropic: we can control how people use Claude, so the government shouldn't stop us from letting foreigners use it Also Anthropic: oh no, foreigners misused Claude in ways we couldn't control, the government should stop them for us
There’s never any trouble in AI bubbleland, AI bubbleland, AI bubbleland …
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