2024-02-09
How did a crypto-boosting book from an a16z general partner become an NYT bestseller alongside Britney Spears' memoir? As it turns out, firms linked to the author Chris Dixon/a16z juiced the sales: https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
Chris Dixon's book becomes an NYT Best Seller but with a dagger icon denoting bulk orders; a16z and some startups linked to it gave the book to staff and others
Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies …
2023-12-16
New: A week after TikTok and Meta began restricting the search term “undress” after a report on the popularity of so-called “nudify” AI apps, X still hasn't done the same as users complain of ads on their timelines, Motherboard found. https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
Some X users report seeing ads for apps that use AI to “undress” women in photos; TikTok and Meta have started to block search terms related to “nudify” apps
Jordan Pearson / VICE :
2023-03-26
interesting piece from @chloexiang on the AI openness beat looking at the motivations of the people who make AI chatbots say terrible things: https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
A look at the community of users who “jailbreak” GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI's closed policies
“The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies.” Tweets: @alexalbert__ , @alexa...
2022-03-04
super interesting story re: an SF-based gig work platform that tasked ukrainians with collecting intelligence https://twitter.com/...
NBC News
Premise, which uses gig workers to crowdsource intelligence, denies working for Russia and says its clients in Ukraine include the US and a European government
2022-03-01
biggest crypto exchange in the world refuses to ban all russian users (while complying with sanctions) at same time donates $10 mil to ukraine https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
Binance, Coinbase, and others deny Ukrainian requests to freeze Russian and Belarusian accounts, citing “economic freedom”, but will comply with sanctions
Binance, the world's largest exchange, said “unilaterally” banning users “would fly in the face of the reason why crypto exists.”
Coinbase tells us that it will not comply with request to ban all Russian users, cites ‘economic freedom’ and says ban would harm ordinary citizens https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
VICE
Binance, Coinbase, and others deny Ukrainian requests to freeze Russian and Belarusian accounts, citing “economic freedom”, but will comply with sanctions
Binance, the world's largest exchange, said “unilaterally” banning users “would fly in the face of the reason why crypto exists.”
2020-10-17
“There's fear from employees about monitoring in all channels, including private ones,” a former coinbase employee told us. love to be a company working with open+immutable cryptocurrency and also censor workers https://twitter.com/...
VICE
At an all-hands, Brian Armstrong said a “silent majority” at Coinbase agreed with his apolitical stance; COO said some staff were asked to delete Slack posts
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE :
2018-03-15
despite banning ICO ads since 2016, programmatically-bought ads served through Google still pop up on Reddit. the company removed a couple we brought to their attention http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... http://twitter.com/...
Motherboard
Reddit has banned cryptocurrency ads since “early 2016”; some cryptocurrency ads from programmatic ad platforms still appear, which are removed when found
Jordan Pearson / Motherboard :
2018-03-14
the imf isnt scared of cryptocurrencies. it actually has a couple ideas for the blockchain that are quite frankly terrifying http://motherboard.vice.com/ ...
IMF Blog