Emanuel Maiberg

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

Google continues to publish interesting research about how the same generative AI tech it's rushing to market is ruining the internet and the world www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 17:21 UTC

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:09 UTC

I paid someone to replace our journalism jobs with AI. It was very cheap, and there's a whole world of products and services trying to game Google like this www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 15:13 UTC

we've been talking about how it feels like Facebook has stopped trying on content moderation. Content moderation experts who used to advise Facebook agree and say they've been cut off www.404media.co/has-facebook...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:10 UTC

porn is a huge driver of AI image generation and the exact same thing is going to happen (and is already happening) with AI video generation www.404media.co/users-jailbr...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:15 UTC

Google image search is flooded with AI-generated images of celebs that lead users to extremely dark places online www.404media.co/google-image...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

the person who hacked Tile told us he "had access to everything" www.404media.co/hacker-acces...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 13:00 UTC

Americans are outsourcing the frustrating tasks of calling pharmacies in search of stimulants and weight loss drugs to freelance workers in the Philippines www.404media.co/people-in-th...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 13:10 UTC

NEW: We got our hands on a database of privacy incidents at Google spanning several years. Children's voices, Nintendo leaks, raids on datacenters. These are the privacy issues Google employees are flagging and trying to fix www.404media.co/google-leak-...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 13:12 UTC

We've heard from a lot of people who found nonconsensual AI images of themselves online, but I think it's very illuminating to see Ali Diamond capture the exact moment she finds her Civitai model www.404media.co/what-its-lik...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

As an endless stream of entirely wrong AI-generated answers from Google go viral on social media, Google researchers find most image-based disinfo is AI-generated now www.404media.co/google-says-...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

OOPSIE: A Patreon account selling nonconsensual AI-generated porn sent me a list of his clients' email addresses www.404media.co/nonconsensua...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

A government cybersecurity official says what his agency, CISA, will not: a critical part of the mobile network infrastructure has been attacked multiple times to track people in the US www.404media.co/cyber-offici...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:36 UTC

Amazon workers are using bots to auto-claim a very limited supply of voluntary time off www.404media.co/amazon-worke...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

extremely disappointing that Pornhub's most popular creator would actively promote an AI app we know has been used to create nonconsensual nudes of minors:
www.404media.co/pornhubs-big...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] May 02, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are creating fake beaches to catch Wigletts. www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 29, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

There is no reason for us to accept the generative AI crisis as inevitable, and the solutions tech companies are putting forward are not the best. They are just the solutions they agreed to www.404media.co/tech-compani...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

Junk AI tools and parasitic SEO practices are destroying one of the last remaining useful parts of the internet www.404media.co/ai-is-poison...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

We've been reporting on a lot of bad Instagram ads over the last 6 months, and these are some of the worst yet. Obvious, explicit ads for nonconsensual AI generated nudes www.404media.co/instagram-ad...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 13:17 UTC

Gamers are being paid in Roblox gift cards to rent out their GPUs so they can generate AI porn www.404media.co/gamers-are-r...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

Obvious in retrospect, but I think you should assume anything you type into a public discord is scraped, archived, and searchable www.404media.co/a-spy-site-i...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

A bunch of guys are stealing videos of real women, deepfaking AI-generated faces on them, and sharing them on Instagram to funnel users to bogus OnlyFans-type subscription sites www.404media.co/ai-influence...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

DIY Apple Vision Pro VR porn is the only good use of this device that I've seen www.404media.co/apple-vision...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 13:57 UTC

dude if I went to a live show for my waifu vocaloid and she wasn't a full hologram???? refund immediately www.404media.co/hatsune-miku...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

Geek Squad agents are handing in their badges after mass layoffs: www.404media.co/mass-layoffs...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 18:50 UTC

NUCA, a 3D printed prototype and art project, is a camera that turns every photo into a nude www.404media.co/nuca-camera-...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

Google Books is indexing AI-generated garbage, which is bad enough on its own, but could fuck with Google Ngram viewer also www.404media.co/google-books...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

new supply chain attack tactic: bullying www.404media.co/xz-backdoor-...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

$10 a month to de-shittify Google does not sound like a bad deal TBH www.404media.co/friendship-e...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 17:39 UTC

Face swap apps seem normal on the app stores, but advertise on porn sites and invite users to make deepfake porn www.404media.co/google-bans-...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

AI tools are going to sneak in and cut corners where people are already stretched thin, and the fact that peer review is one of those places is a really bad sign www.404media.co/chatgpt-loom...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

the worst possible outcome for GenAI is here and openly advertised on Twitter. "IRL Fakes" is a Telegram channel that shares photographs of normal women, not celebrities, and their AI-generated porn, commissioned by a client for as little as $10 www.404media.co/irl-fakes-wh...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 13, 2024 at 16:43 UTC

I went through a 60 slide personality quiz featuring Ash the blue alien to apply for a job at Olive Garden. Hiring managers have lost their minds www.404media.co/low-paying-j...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 07, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

this is like the "target knows teen is pregnant before her parents" story only worse www.404media.co/woman-got-cr...

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