Hello 404 Media readers! We’re excited to announce that we’re having our first ever party in Los Angeles. We have partnered with the amazing DIY hackerspace RIP.SPACE in the Arts District. We’ll start the night with a live podcast about the surveillance technologies powering ICE, with a specific focus on tools that are being used…
Conservative content mill PragerU is partnering with the White House to make AI-generated videos of founding fathers and Revolutionary War-era randos. PragerU is a nonprofit organization with a mission âto promote American values through the creative use of digital media, technology and edu-tainment,â according to its website. Itâs been criticized for advancing climate denial and…
đ Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. A major mystery about a long-lost legend that was all the rage in Medieval England but survives in only one known fragment has been solved, according to a study published on…
Steam, the dominant digital storefront for PC games operated by Valve, updated its guidelines to forbid âcertain kinds of adult contentâ and blamed restrictions from payment processors and financial institutions. The update was initially spotted by Steam.DB, a platform that tracks and publishes data about Steam, and reported by the Japanese gaming site Gamespark. The…
We start this week with a series of articles from Emanuel about a crackdown in the AI industry. After the break, Sam tells us about the âSave Our Signsâ campaign which hopes to preserve the history of national parks. In the subscribers-only section, Jason rants about how AI will not save the media industry. Listen…
Yesterday I ordered my lunch from an AI operating a drive-thru. It was fine. Banal. Boring even. A new experience that I think will become routine in the future. The AI drive-thru operator isnât cutting edge tech deployed in an upscale market to win over high value consumers. I live at the edge of a…
Yesterday, Silicon Valley trade publication The Information launched TITV, a live-streaming news program. For its first episode, the companyâs founder Jessica Lessin interviewed Mark Zuckerberg about his recent attempts to hire AI executives away from other companies for huge sums of money. It is impossible to say what actually happened in the interview, however, because…
ICE Block, an app that lets users warn others about the location of ICE officers, and which for a short while was the top of the social media App Store chart, does protect usersâ privacy and doesnât share your location with third parties, according to a recent analysis from a security researcher. ICE Block already…
Hugging Face, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used platforms for sharing AI tools and resources, is hosting over 5,000 AI image generation models that are designed to recreate the likeness of real people. These models were all previously hosted on Civitai, an AI model sharing platform 404…
In the two years that Iâve been reporting about Civitai, a platform for sharing AI image generation models that has been instrumental in the production of AI generated non-consensual porn, Civitai has consistently argued that the amount of adult content on the site has been overstated. But new research shows that, if anything, the amount…
