X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle
www.404media.co/americas-pol... @casuallylucid : “The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this.” — Our attention is the product — There...
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
I feel sorry for billionaires. Each election season … Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Platformonomics TGIF #109: November 21, 2025 Miles Klee / Rolling Stone : Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More At...
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : Apple pulls immigrati...
Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving administrators the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like wrong citations
as if enshittification is not self imposed. if you simply act in the interest of your actual users, it just doesn't happen. X: @halsted_19 : Cool. A Wikipedia entry on “Signs of AI writing” [image] F...
Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field
www.404media.co/ice-is-using... [image] Ryan Teague Beckwith / @ryanbeckwith : The men wearing masks as they shove people in unmarked vans with swapped license plates are using a facial recognition a...
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more
Recall that the right wants to ban AI legislation *at the state level*. They're cashing in on the mis/dis information AND from the tech flooding us with it. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg... Stefan...
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash
Say No ‘Need To One-Up’ With Google David Uzondu / Neowin : Wikipedia suffers backlash from human editors over AI summaries, prompting feature pause Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku : Wikipedia Won't Add AI-Gene...
Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used … Bluesky: @jasonkoebler , @patrickhowelloneill.com , and @emanuelmaiberg . Mas...
Civitai blames a “configuration issue” for allowing users to generate non-consensual porn; it appears that users can still create such videos of non-celebrities
404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price. Bluesky: @josephcox and @emanuelmaiberg . Mastodon: @jbhall56@infosec.exchange Bluesk...
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally
“Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.” Bluesky: @kevinbriody , @romitmehta.com , @emanuelmaiberg , and @hypervisible X: @zamaan_qureshi ...