Researchers found its possible to automate the jailbreaking of AI models at scale. You just need to type like the SpongeBob meme https://www.404media.co/apparently-this-is-how-you-jailbreak-ai/

@josephcox Yet again we see how copyright law is used to silence critical voices. A tool for encouraging more expression, indeed

New from 404 Media: we went to the premiere of the first commercially steaming AI movies. They were as bad as you would expect, and are being made explicitly as a targeting advertising push because data says people will be too lazy to change the channelhttps://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/

You can read the subpoena here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25450240-dark-moderedcted-redacted/?ref=404media.co

Here @jasonkoebler writes his friend was filling out surveys/games to get few dollars off essential medication. People are outpouring their "horrendous, inhumane, heartbreaking experiences with a profit-driven, private American healthcare system" https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-healthcare-and-its-stakeholders/

New: multiple major health insurance companies (Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource, Medica, Elevance Health) have taken down pages on their websites which listed their leadership, following the murder of United Healthcare CEO https://www.404media.co/multiple-major-health-insurance-companies-take-down-leadership-pages-following-murder-of-united-healthcare-ceo/

New from 404 Media: Yancey Spruill, who at time was Digital Ocean's CEO, told staff in all-hands meeting his former mentor was a member of the KKK, which he said shows how employees can work together despite holding different values. We got recordings https://www.404media.co/ceo-attempted-to-navigate-anti-lgbt-hate-incident-by-telling-employees-his-mentor-was-a-kkk-member/

On this week's episode of the 404 Media Podcast we talked about how people have built a bunch of different datasets of Bluesky users' posts to train AI/machine learning. 300 million post set, a 2 million, 1 million. Listen here on Apple, Spotify, YouTube: https://www.404media.co/podcast-your-bluesky-posts-are-probably-training-ai/

New: your Bluesky posts are probably in many different datasets for potential AI/ML research. There's one of 300 million posts, two million, 8 million, etc https://www.404media.co/bluesky-posts-machine-learning-ai-datasets-hugging-face/

New from 404 Media: this is huge. FTC to ban Venntel from selling sensitive location data. Sensitive locations include health facilities (think abortion); places of worship; schools; refugee shelters. Crucial because Venntel sold its data to ICE, CBP etc https://www.404media.co/ftc-bans-location-data-company-that-powers-the-surveillance-ecosystem/

For this time of year, we're doing a 25% discount on 404 Media- ad-free access to all articles, most of which are paywalled- bonus articles every week- bonus podcast stuff every week- growing archive of FOIA training- supporting unique journalismhttps://www.404media.co/cyber2024

@amd thanks. Updated.

Before we launched 404 Media, "allegedly very smart people" (as Emanuel calls them) told us to our faces it would take us years to build to one million views a month. We just crossed that. That's still relatively small, but independent media can work. Go do it.

@josephcox I eagerly wait for Melon trying to haggle the monetary value of a Xitter account down in face of a court order that he pay Jolex Anus's creditors that value of the account that he's depriving them of.