The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
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From Flock's nationwide surveillance to ICE tools, we are being watched. Is there anyway to go back now? A 404 Media guide to surveillance in 2026:
https://www.404media.co/flock-ice-surveillance-technology-reddit-ama/
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“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
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On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
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In one example about a documentary concerning Black civil rights, the DOGE bro said he agreed with ChatGPT’s assessment that this was DEI because it “focused on a singular race.” After a pause, he added: “it is not for the benefit of humankind."
https://www.404media.co/i-watched-6-hours-of-doge-bro-testimony-heres-what-they-had-to-say-for-themselves/
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The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.
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A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/
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Low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations.
https://404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
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A NASA spacecraft into a small asteroid in 2022 moved its orbit around the Sun, according to a study that presents the “first-ever measurement of human-caused change in the heliocentric orbit of a celestial body.”
https://www.404media.co/humanity-has-altered-an-asteroids-orbit-around-the-sun/
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A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
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A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
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AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
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An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/
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Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin all about how to find fake cell phone towers that can track your movements or intercept text messages.
https://www.404media.co/how-to-detect-phone-spying-tech-with-cooper-quintin/
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A new genetic analysis reveals that human females and Neanderthal males interbred far more than the reverse, for reasons that remain mysterious.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-reveal-the-surprising-sex-lives-of-neanderthals-and-early-humans/
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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works:
https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/
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Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.
https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/
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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/
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Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”
https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/
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404 Media found multiple users of Zello, an app previously used by January 6 insurrectionists, linked to ICE officials. An officer at the scene of an CBP official shooting a U.S. citizen also used the app.
https://www.404media.co/how-ice-and-cbp-use-free-walkie-talkie-app-zello-to-power-their-operations/
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The Conde Nast-owned tech publication Ars Technica has retracted an article that contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes, according to an editor’s note posted to its website.
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There is an inherent irony in Palantir listing the immigration crackdown that it is powering as being a potential risk for the company.
https://www.404media.co/palantir-which-is-powering-ice-says-immigration-crackdown-may-hurt-hiring/
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Yeah so that Ring ad that aired at the Super Bowl about 'Search Party?" 404 Media now has proof that it won't just be used to locate dogs...
https://www.404media.co/leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs/
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Don't do this at home. Please.
https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends-best-foods-to-insert-into-your-rectum/
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From earlier this month, the DOJ published unredacted nudes of women and girls in their latest Epstein dump. Here's how 404 Media got them to take those documents down.
https://www.404media.co/doj-released-unredacted-nude-images-in-epstein-files/
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Mainstream media and the Trump administration praised Alpha School, an "AI-powered private school" that can cost up to $65,000 a year. 404 Media has learned that the school is AI-generating faulty lesson plans.
https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/
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“This is really a turning point and we’re in a historical transition at present.”
https://www.404media.co/at-the-worlds-largest-general-science-meeting-surviving-trump-is-the-topic/
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Porn performer Siri Dahl’s personal information, including her full legal name and birthday, was publicly exposed earlier this month by Grok. Dahl told 404 Media she wanted to reclaim the situation, and her name, and asked that it be published in this piece.
https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/
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Researchers discovered 26 new microbial species in ancient Alaskan permafrost, hoping their frost-fighting chemistry could help soldiers and civilians alike survive extreme cold.
https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-military-is-reviving-microbes-from-40-000-year-old-ice/
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This week, we discuss parenting blogs, Pinterest sawing its own legs off, and legal guardrails.
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-nothing-to-hide-here/
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An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/
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“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.
https://www.404media.co/we-have-learned-nothing-about-amplifying-morons/
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In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.
https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/
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Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features.
https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/
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Regulation of immigration or work visa means "it could be more difficult to staff our personnel on customer engagements and could increase our costs," Palantir wrote.
https://www.404media.co/palantir-which-is-powering-ice-says-immigration-crackdown-may-hurt-hiring/
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Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.
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We got leaked documents about Alpha School. We also talk about what happens when someone decides to make an AI OnlyFans in your name, and the AI tool cops are buying to geolocate photos.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-inside-an-ai-powered-school/
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Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
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The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let people find a model's presence on other streaming platforms. The creator says “If that is a problem for you then the sad reality is this job is not for you.”
https://www.404media.co/underground-facial-recognition-tool-unmasks-camgirls/
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EpsteIn—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.
https://www.404media.co/this-tool-searches-the-epstein-files-for-your-linkedin-contacts/
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A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
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"Explicitly intertwining the aspirations and fate of SpaceX with Musk’s CSAM generating social media website, his AI bullshit machines, and his right wing political project is horrifying and monopolistic."
https://www.404media.co/this-spacex-situation-not-good/
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In his keynote, Benioff thanked international employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them. https://www.404media.co/marc-benioff-jokes-ice-is-watching-salesforce-employees-who-traveled-to-the-u-s/
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A court record indicates the Apple feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now. https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/
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The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of the latest dump of more than 3.5 million pages of Epstein files. https://www.404media.co/doj-released-unredacted-nude-images-in-epstein-files/
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“Ah, a proud assitarian,” the chatbot responds, before listing “Top Assitarian Staples,” which include “Bananas (firm, not overripe; peeled)” as “the gold standard. (Don't do this at home.) https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends-best-foods-to-insert-into-your-rectum/
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Scientists have recreated a miniature laboratory version of the massive cyclonic storms that rage at Jupiter’s poles.
https://www.404media.co/astronomers-create-strange-vortex-crystals-from-space-in-the-lab/
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Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir or some other high-profile surveillance companies, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/
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