The Who's Who of AI

“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404m…”

“Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or no…”

“Make real how much labour is stolen and hidden with it too.”

“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...”

“OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI. www.404media.co/people-train...”

“At least we get plenty of irony these days. #AIEthics Very revealing quote: “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” www.404media.co/people-train...”

“In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media has learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...”

“New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a…”

““AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”

“Stop getting your AI agent to email us. It's not impressive, it's lame as fuck, and you look like an idiot doing it. Our inboxes are full of this crap. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”

“Bad content drives out good. futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“We received a tip about the connection between Brown and Maxwell after publishing our original story on BBM's amazingly vast (and successful) AI slop network: futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“mere moments ago the nytimes published this article which heavily features Muse's ability to make calls, lol: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...”

“Perhaps the greatest understatement in the history of understatements. Brilliant parody, or misplaced earnestness? I have no idea, but it’s amazing! “Agents require a level of trust that many people may be uncomfortable with, especially with a company, like…”

“iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.”

“world's worst door to door salesmen www.404media.co/ai-agent-pla...”

“Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting. Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co…”

“Also recommend this, by @ernie.tedium.co: tedium.co/2026/09/11/i...”

“Yeah Ernie did a good write up a few days ago at tedium.co/2026/09/11/i...”

“Is AI going to kill us all in 10 years? Discussions of AI doom or existential risk are complicated because they often serve as marketing or excuses for regulatory capture for the biggest AI companies. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch more: …”

“emanuel and i attempted to talk about how we talk about and report on AI. we included this in our subscriber NL this week it's an informal convo we had bc we've been slacking about how and if to cover the Anthropic stuff, as well as changing capabilities of…”

“just saw this from a few months ago and, lol, they're all dogshit john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/a...”

“Good article mirroring my own experience. Most people make slop posters because they just don’t even try with a design style. I’ve also tried the “that’s an example of what not to do” trick and it works very well ukslim.github.io/2026/06/07/a...”