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 ...
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool
A leaked internal document shows Runway's celebrated Gen-3 AI video generator collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies for training data. X: @mkbhd , @malwarejake , @ednewtonrex , @jos...
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use
It's almost like they need... A librarian. — https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Like Amazon, Google Books has also been infected with lots of AI-generated g...
Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor
A previously unknown contributor to the popular open-source Android app store F-Droid repeatedly pressured its developers to push … Mastodon: @samleecole@journa.host , @doctormo@floss.social , and @mh...
A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material taken without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates
Generative AI tools have empowered amateurs and entrepreneurs to build mind-boggling amounts of non-consensual porn. X: @dlberes , @emanuelmaiberg , and @josephfcox X: Damon Beres / @dlberes : “Every ...
Former JUMP employees blame the bikeshare company's downfall on Uber applying a software business mentality to a transportation business after acquiring it
One morning at the end of May, Mark Miretsky awoke in his San Francisco apartment and groggily browsed his phone. There was no rush to get up. Tweets: @a_w_gordon , @counternotions , @luke_metro , @m...
A look at Banjo, which offers Palantir-like tools to flag emergencies, crime, and more using AI and has a 5-year deal with Utah and access to surveillance data
it's off the charts, building a total surveillance state. https://www.vice.com/... Emily Coleman / @editoremilye : Well, this is a nightmare. https://twitter.com/... Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : This...
Profile of PewDiePie covering his relationships with YouTube and mainstream media, as he tries to shed his reputation as a far-right sympathizer
The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it's all a misunderstanding. Tweets: @kevinroose , @chronotope , @drb...