Meta saying it expects AI characters to populate its apps is its friendly rebrand of an effective but alienating overhaul meant to automate social interactions
nymag.com/intelligence... @hypervisible : “A lot of formerly social aspects of a platform like Facebook, in other words, have already been automated and replaced with machine learning, but each step i...
New CEO of Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media, says it's facing FTC probe after 2015 breach and allegations of using “fembots” and fake profiles
The parent company of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison, hit by a devastating hack last year …
How Ashley Madison Hid Its Fembot Con From Users and Investigators
The developers at Ashley Madison created their first artificial woman sometime in early 2002. Her nickname was Sensuous Kitten, and she is listed as the tenth member of Ashley Madison in the company'...
Once seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked
Programming errors make 15.26 million accounts orders of magnitude faster to crack. — When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes worth of sensitive documents belonging to the onli...
Ashley Madison created 70K female bots which sent fake messages to 20M of 31M men in the database; 11M of them were chatted up by automatic ‘engagers’
Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots — After searching through the Ashley Madison database and private email last week …
Ashley Madison fires back, says ratio of men to women is 1.2 to 1 with thousands still signing up
Hacking victim Ashley Madison wants you to know that reports of its demise are premature, and that reports that there are no women on the site are totally bogus.
Ashley Madison had approximately 31M male members, 5.5M female members, but likely only 12K women actively used the site
Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site — When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women's profiles we...
Lack of company support and tech knowledge increase anxiety for those affected by Ashley Madison hack, based on hundreds of users' emails
Here's what Ashley Madison members have told me — I found myself in somewhat of a unique position last week: I'd made the Ashley Madison data searchable …
Leaked Ashley Madison emails claim CTO hacked competitor nerve.com and exfiltrated its entire user database
Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors — Hacked online cheating service AshleyMadison.com is portraying itself as a victim of malicious cybercriminals …
Ashley Madison offers C$500K reward as police investigate reports of two suicides possibly connected to leak
‘Suicides’ over Ashley Madison hack — Two Ashley Madison clients are reported to have taken their lives after hackers published their details according to police in Canada.