Documents unsealed in the copyright lawsuit New York Times v. Microsoft and OpenAI show Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately described their LLM training data practices as "an astonishing theft o…
An engineering expert retained by 3M used ChatGPT while developing his analysis in the Watson Grinding explosion litigation, and a prompt surfaced telling the system to "show how 3M is 0% at fault," a…
An investigative report from 404 Media found that Amazon operates a Las Vegas facility, known as VGT3, where workers slice the bindings off rare books, scan the loose pages, and recycle the shredded r…
A 404 Media podcast reports that secretive predictive policing units within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are analyzing Americans' financial data and directing local police to pull ov…
BusPatrol, a company that installs AI cameras in school buses, plans to convert those cameras into license plate readers and give police access to the data, according to a 404 Media report. The report…
BusPatrol, a major U.S. vendor of AI-equipped school bus stop-arm cameras, planned to convert its fleet of roughly 35,000 cameras across 24 states and more than 350 school districts into automatic lic…
The Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Texas used Axon's Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about its use of Flock's license plate cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an a…
Axon CEO Rick Smith said in an August 26 webinar that law enforcement customers have asked the company to redesign its Outpost automatic license plate reader so it does not resemble Flock cameras, cit…
In a podcast episode, 404 Media's Emanuel spoke to an Amazon warehouse worker who destroys books to train Amazon's AI products, following up on his earlier investigation into Amazon's book scanning pr…
Microsoft Corp. is cracking down on employee AI spending after an internal tracker revealed one worker in its Customer and Partner Solutions organization spent $28,000 on AI tools in a single 28-day p…
404 Media's Behind the Blog discusses the destruction of rare books by Amazon to train AI, referencing a podcast episode and a Substack post by Sam. The post is paywalled for members.…
Moonbug Entertainment, the studio behind Cocomelon, has issued a generative AI policy and a 'Studio AI Bible' instructing its animators to experiment with AI while keeping a human in the loop, accordi…
All charges were dropped on Monday against Lux Claridge, a 37-year-old physics teacher arrested on July 22 for clapping in support of an anti-data center speaker at an Emporia, Kansas city commission …
An anonymous Amazon employee at the VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, described how the facility destructively scans books for AI training data, cutting off spines and discarding loose pages into m…
A synthetic Israel-funded think tank, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, has published more than 100 articles since its launch less than a month ago, designed to influence AI search results in f…
A coalition of advocacy groups, including the Demand Progress Education Fund, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, has urged the Federal Trade Commission to i…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in startups that exploit legal loopholes, deceive consumers, and break laws, according to a report by The Midas Project. The fir…
LinkedIn's 'Seems like AI slop' button, announced July 30th, has been clicked by over one million users, according to chief product officer Hari Srinivasan. The company reports a 40% reduction in view…
Investigative journalists from 404 Media hid an AirTag in a batch of rare books sold to Amazon, tracking the shipment to VGT3, an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, where books are destroyed af…
An expert witness hired by 3M to testify in a lawsuit over a 2020 Houston explosion that killed three people used ChatGPT to write up to 90% of his expert report, while 3M paid Knighthawk Engineering …