LinkedIn has introduced a button that lets users flag posts as 'seems like AI slop,' 404 Media tests confirmed. The button appears when clicking the three dots on a post, and after reporting, LinkedIn…
A data center disconnecting from the PJM power grid caused power flickers across 13 states from Washington DC to Chicago on Wednesday, highlighting the growing challenge of powering AI data centers. E…
A Casa Grande, Arizona man named Jacob Petrosky used a satirical proposal to protest the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, announcing a fake company called Shepherd Safety that would use AI-po…
Substack contributors are rejecting the company's new AI detection tool, calling it a 'witch hunt' and warning that false positives could tarnish writers' reputations. Substack CEO Christ Best announc…
A Google search dork has exposed thousands of Claude users' private chats and creations, including cryptocurrency wallet keys, personal addresses, and medical billing data, according to a 404 Media re…
Spotify faces criticism for not labeling AI-generated music on its platform, leading to confusion and the rise of third-party tools like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org that identify AI artists.…
A group of protesters calling themselves Luddite gnomes marched through Lower Manhattan on Fourth of July weekend, chanting anti-AI slogans and holding a mock trial for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part o…
A judge caught a court reporter making AI-generated errors in a court transcript, putting stenographers on notice for their use of AI. In a July 23 memorandum decision, Judge Paul Felix wrote that a t…
A podcast episode reveals that police are using Flock surveillance technology to track people, not just vehicles, with searches like 'male with tattoos.' The episode also covers a company selling book…
ISBNdb, a company that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they are free of AI-generated text…
Emanuel is investigating a new type of AI-generated nonconsensual image appearing on X, but has not yet published a story on the topic.…
A hacker who breached AI music generator Suno revealed that the company scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Music Scor…
Game developer Freya Holmér posted a prototype of a rotating Tetris game to social media in mid-March, and within days multiple vibecoded clones appeared, including Rotris by Charlie Greenman and Bloc…
404 Media readers flooded the outlet with examples of AI-generated flyers after an earlier callout, with many expressing intense hatred for the low-quality, brain-numbing signs appearing on social med…
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind found that AI-generated fiction is easily detectable due to formulaic narrative structures, moralizing themes, and lack of temporal comple…
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping creators' content without permission, compensation, or credit. CEO Jack Conte announced the network-level protection on al…
A new study by AI detection company Pangram found that up to 41% of longform posts on LinkedIn and roughly a third on X are likely AI-generated, based on data from its Chrome extension. The research, …
Meta has filed a patent for an AI-powered wearable device that continuously records users' voices and surroundings to analyze their emotional state, with the stated goal of tailoring workouts. The sys…
A growing backlash against AI-generated flyers and signs, dubbed the 'ChatGPT flyer pandemic,' has emerged as graphic designers, small business owners, and consumers criticize the generic, low-effort …
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. United States that the Fourth Amendment protects people's location data, affirming that even short-term surveillance of physical movements constitutes a sear…