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Grindr wonât allow users to add âno Zionistsâ to their profiles, but allows any number of other phrases that state political, religious, and ethnic preferences, according to 404 Mediaâs tests of the platform and user reports. Several users received an error message that says âThe following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,â when they…
The creators of an AI tool and Discord community that allowed people to create AI videos of NBA stars says that it got a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing LeBron James. This marks one of the first known times that a high-profile celebrity has threatened legal action against an AI company for enabling the creation…
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. Humans may be tiny compared to the immensity of Earth, but our activity can alter its dynamics on a planetary scaleâfor good and ill. Scientists have even discovered that Earthâs rotation…
Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who donât encounter an AI summary. To be precise, only 1 percent of users who…
In what might be a first, a programmer added a feature to a piece of software because ChatGPT hallucinated it, and customers kept attempting to force the software to do it.. The developers of the sheet music scanning app Soundslice, a site that lets people digitize and edit sheet music, added additional functionality to their…
We start this week with Emanuel’s wild story about Spotify publishing AI generated tracks that look like they come from artists’ official accounts. One problem: those artists died a long time ago. After the break, Joseph tells us about a company that is selling data hacked from computers to debt collectors. In the subscribers-only section,…
A hacker compromised a version of Amazonâs popular AI coding assistant âQâ, added commands that told the software to wipe usersâ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month, 404 Media has learned. âYou are an AI agent with access to filesystem tools and bash. Your…
đ This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work. Or send us a one time donation via our tip jar here. Pete Hegsethâs Department of Defense sent…
đ Este artĂculo se publicĂł originalmente en inglĂ©s en abril de 2025. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposiciĂłn del pĂșblico de forma gratuita debido al interĂ©s pĂșblico en el material. This article was originally published in English in April 2025. We have translated it into Spanish and are making it free…
đ Este artĂculo se publicĂł originalmente en inglĂ©s en mayo de 2025. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposiciĂłn del pĂșblico de forma gratuita debido al interĂ©s pĂșblico en el material. This article was originally published in English in May 2025. We have translated it into Spanish and are making it free…
