Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas. Amazon confirmed it purchases books thro…
An expert witness hired by 3M used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his report defending the company in a lawsuit over a 2020 Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 2…
An investigation by 404 Media, which placed an AirTag inside a shipment of rare books, found that Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them at a Las Vegas w…
CGTrader, an online marketplace for 3D assets, reports that AI-generated models now make up one in six listings but generate only $1 out of every $90 in revenue, indicating buyers assign almost no eco…
Hany Farid, cofounder of deepfake detection company GetReal and developer of PhotoDNA, discussed the evolution of AI-generated imagery and its impact on perceptions of reality in a 404 Media podcast e…
Meta Platforms Inc. has filed a patent for smart glasses technology that uses facial recognition to identify people in recorded videos and automatically generate highlight clips labeled with who is in…
A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book with an Apple AirTag and found it ended at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, where employees cut bindings off books to scan them for AI training d…
A Connecticut court employee spotted unusual whitespace in a legal filing, uncovering a hidden prompt injection attack. A pro se plaintiff had embedded near-invisible instructions in white text, telli…
A pro se plaintiff suing New York Bariatric Group hid prompt injection instructions in legal filings to trick AI into ruling in his favor, prompting Connecticut Superior Court Judge Walter Spader Jr. …
A Connecticut Superior Court judge barred self-represented plaintiff Matthew Elliott from electronic filing after discovering hidden, nearly invisible text in docket entries 177.00 and 178.00 that ins…
Meta has filed a patent for AI smartglasses that use facial recognition to identify people and automatically generate highlight reels of events such as dinner parties, according to a patent published …
A Connecticut man, Matthew Elliott, hid prompt-injection instructions in a court filing against New York Bariatric Group, hoping AI systems would rule in his favor, but a court employee spotted the ne…
A Connecticut court sanctioned pro se plaintiff Matthew Elliott for hiding prompt injection instructions in 3-point white font in court filings, directing AI systems to rule in his favor. The court, l…
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto, 'The Future is for Everyone,' argues for open, decentralized AI and warns against concentrated power, drawing mixed reactions from critics and advocates. How…
404 Media reported that a medical research company marketing its peer review services as '100% human-written, never AI' was found to be entirely AI-generated, constituting compliance fraud in regulate…
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for Meta's AI agents, described as 'superintelligent,' is the focus of a 404 Media podcast episode, with the hosts noting the agents 'don't sound fun at all.' The episode also c…
Used book sellers in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands report a surge in bulk orders for obscure titles, suspecting AI companies are buying and destroying books to train large language mod…
Flock, the controversial surveillance company, pitched a plan to turn Uber and Lyft drivers into a network of roaming surveillance vehicles by using their dashcams to scan license plates, according to…
A July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General found that the department's automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras generated 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts…
Flock Safety pitched a plan to use 350,000 rideshare and delivery dashcams to scan license plates, according to a report from 404 Media. The proposal, which would involve Uber and Lyft drivers, aims t…