Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results. As of writing, searching for “mein kampf positive reviews” returned a result that was pulled from an AI-generated summary of an…
Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn
A number of AI video generators, mostly released by Chinese companies, lack the most basic guardrails that prevent people from generating nonconsensual nudity and pornography, and are already widely used for that exact purpose in online communities dedicated to creating and sharing that type of content. A 404 Media investigation into these AI video generators…
This Game Created by AI ‘Vibe Coding’ Makes $50,000 a Month. Yours Probably Won’t
A game created with AI in just 30 minutes is generating more than $50,000 a month, its creator claims—and could be a peek at how AI can, and can’t, change game design in the future. fly.pieter.com, an in-browser “fun free-to-play MMO flight sim made with AI” was made by Pieter Levels, who amassed a huge…
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
A leading French university is inviting American scientists who fear their research on subjects like climate might be censored by Donald Trump’s administration to do their work in France. “The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period,” Clara Bufi,…
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. As we have been following since the beginning of Trump’s second term, websites across the entire federal government…
Cellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile Phones
Cellebrite, the company which makes near ubiquitous phone hacking and forensics technology used by police officers around the world, has introduced artificial intelligence capabilities into its products, including summarizing chat logs or audio messages from seized mobile phones, according to an announcement from the company last month. The introduction of AI into a tool that…
Podcast: The Tesla Protests Come for Cybertruck Owners
This week we start with Jason’s article on how a Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is completely overrun with people flipping them off. Then Joseph explains how U.S. crypto traders are buying IDs from the tropical nation of Palau to skirt the law. Then in the subscribers-only section (with a content warning), we talk about…
Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery
A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say “WHAT’S ELON’S CUM TASTE LIKE?,” and “NAZI CAR,” and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc. This genre of post is being made nearly daily in a…
Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. After a group of attorneys were caught using AI to cite cases that didn’t actually exist in court documents last month, another lawyer was told to pay $15,000 for his own AI hallucinations that…