Three Bay Area tech workers calling themselves DrivingBench hooked GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Grok 4.6, and GPT-5.6 Sol up to a rented Toyota Corolla via the open-source Comma self-driving kit and…
Meta is testing its Muse AI agent's outbound calling feature using human agents in call centers, according to internal communications seen by 404 Media, despite executives publicly presenting the call…
OpenAI contractors hired to review and improve ChatGPT's responses have been fired for using AI tools like Grammarly and AI translation to do that work, according to internal documents and three contr…
New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Monday that his office seized 12 websites hosting AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery, calling it the largest seizure of such sites in history…
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…
James Strahler, 38, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday, becoming the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act, after investigators found more than 3,000 real an…
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…
Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, posted an AI-generated video on Tuesday depicting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul in satirical scenarios, pro…
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…
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…
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 new type of AI-generated nonconsensual image, dubbed 'subtlefakes,' is spreading on X, featuring celebrities in slightly altered but photorealistic poses that are harder to detect than traditional d…
Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six-month moratorium on major electric utility infrastructure on Tuesday night to delay the $1.2 billion data center backed by the University of Michigan and Lo…
404 Media reports that Amazon has been buying and destroying rare books to train its AI models, as detailed in an investigation by Emanuel. The podcast also covers cases of AI misuse, including an exp…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, announced that future versions of Claude will embed text watermarks by subtly altering word choices in generated text, a method the company says is undetectabl…
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…
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…