Emanuel Maiberg

Alpha School, an "AI-powered" private school that costs as much as $65k a year, is generating faulty lesson plans and stealing content from textbooks for training data https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/

Spent a lot of time talking to people in the Ruby controversy about the ousting of contributors by Ruby Central and what the entire episode says about open source development https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/

This is the inside story of how Tea's male founder convinced millions of women to share their most intimate secrets on his app, then exposed those secrets in devastating security breaches https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/

the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

another reminder that much like the conservatives he is kissing up to now zuck does not care about free speech at all https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/

Texas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media's reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database. Our lawyers formally objected to subpoena. You can read both the subpoena and the objection here: https://www.404media.co/404-media-objects-to-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxtons-subpoena-to-access-our-reporting/

a bunch of manly men celebs are in deepfaked YouTube ads to sell boner pills https://www.404media.co/deepfake-youtube-ads-of-celebrities-promise-to-get-you-rock-hard/

Russia is spreading lies about Stalker 2 collecting private data on players and being used by the government to find more Ukrainian men to mobilize in the war https://www.404media.co/stalker2-disinformation/

the UK government made Valve remove a game from Steam in which players can kill IDF soldiers on October 7. The game's creator says it's not that different than Call of Duty https://www.404media.co/steam-removes-oct-7-game-at-request-of-uk-counter-terrorism-unit/

Niantic is well aware its AI models based on Pokemon Go data will be useful to the militaries, but is not ruling out selling it to them https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-data-adding-amplitude-to-war-is-obviously-an-issue-niantic-exec-says/

We spent months digging into the booming AI influencer industry. People are brazenly stealing content from human models and adult content creators and Instagram does not give a damn https://www.404media.co/inside-the-booming-ai-pimping-industry-3/

Pokemon Go players have created a hugely valuable dataset of the real world which Niantic is now of course using to train AI models that could power robots https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/

Buzzfeed is running AI ads that are telling readers to buy products in photographs of Gaza, people who died by suicide, attempted murderers https://www.404media.co/ai-powered-buzzfeed-ads-suggest-you-buy-hat-of-man-who-died-by-suicide/

the secret service thinks it doesn't need a warrant to track your phone because you agreed to the terms of service you never read on random apps https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/

I solemnly googled "luce porn" to find that Rule 34 and AI have turned the Vatican's cute mascot into extremely graphic porn https://www.404media.co/luce-porn-vatican/

In 2022 Microsoft got some good press for retiring it's AI-powered gender classifier. Only problem is it wasn't until I reached out for comment last week that Microsoft found users were still accessing it: https://www.404media.co/microsoft-provided-gender-detection-ai-on-accident/

people are using AI to apply to jobs where their job applications are then also reviewed by AI https://www.404media.co/i-applied-to-2-843-roles-the-rise-of-ai-powered-job-application-bots/

I talked to a couple of Wikipedia editors who founded a project to protect the site from AI-generated misinformation https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes/