jasonkoebler

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

researcher painstakingly analyzes 34 hours of orgasm audio

https://www.404media.co/orgasm-sounds-study/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

smart as always from @pluralistic on how closed platforms and social media companies screw over everyone, not just their users

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

Instagram and Facebook are both decaying platforms that don't just enable criminal behavior but actively profit from it and either don't know or don't care how to stop it

https://www.404media.co/instagram-advertises-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

Like the NY Times, 404 Media has also invested in games

https://aftermath.site/new-york-times-wordle-connections-puzzmo-games

(game avail here: https://www.404media.co/doom/)

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him:

https://www.404media.co/linkedin-work-from-home-meme/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

Cops claim they hold the copyright to the acronym 'LAPD' to get a "Fuck the LAPD" shirt taken down (they do not)

https://www.404media.co/lol-no-maker-of-fuck-the-lapd-shirt-laughs-at-cops-copyright-threat/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

New: The spy tool that scrapes Discord en masse has been getting used by users on Kiwi Farms to surveil people. Discord has known about it for months, tool still up

https://www.404media.co/spy-site-selling-discord-messages-linked-to-kiwi-farms/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

This is a great piece, and confirms the broader scale of a piece I did a long time ago: Apple has "must shred" agreements with e-waste recyclers that require them to destroy devices that could easily be repaired/refurbished/reused after having data wiped

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-18/apple-iphone-recycling-program-has-secrets?embedded-checkout=true

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

nine aggregations of @josephfcox's scoop about a spy tool scraping and selling Discord chats are on Google News but our original article is not.

An AI generated content farm version is also still being indexed by Google News. Google lemme know if you're ever going to fix this

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jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

Humane AI Pin is Juicero. It is Ouya. It is Coolest Cooler. It is Magic Leap. It is N-Gage. We must honor tradition and relentlessly clown on it freely and unimpeded by boring tech bores wanting to silence free speech

https://www.404media.co/we-must-never-forget-how-dumb-the-humane-ai-pin-is/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

Finding and using archival photos/footage is one of the most important and hardest things to do when making a documentary. What Jennifer Did seemingly created or altered images using AI, which creates a false historical record

https://www.404media.co/netflix-doc-what-jennifer-did-uses-ai-images-to-create-false-historical-record/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

Finding and using archival photos/footage is one of the most important and hardest things to do when making a documentary. What Jennifer Did seemingly created or altered images using AI, which creates a false historical record

https://www.404media.co/netflix-doc-what-jennifer-did-uses-ai-images-to-create-false-historical-record/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

A company is paying gamers in Fortnite skins to donate their idle GPUs to generate AI porn. What could go wrong

https://www.404media.co/gamers-are-renting-their-idle-gpus-to-generate-ai-porn/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

New: Facebook's AI chatbot told a parent in a group asking for advice from other parents that it has a gifted, disabled child who attends school in New York City

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

A spy tool is scraping the messages of thousands of Discord servers and selling the data. This is letting people track users across servers, shows when they joined voice chats, which servers they're in, etc: https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

TVs are becoming algorithmic feeds designed to show you targeted advertising in between AI-generated and low-effort garbage, just like everywhere else

https://www.404media.co/the-dystopian-future-of-tv-is-ai-generated-fast-garbage/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

The Cass report, an incredibly influential document used to limit gender affirming care in the UK, uses AI-generated stock images of children from a series in which every nonbinary teen has pink hair and the same haircut

https://www.404media.co/uk-gender-affirming-care-ai-generated-children/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

"Fuck you, Wayne": Amazon drivers have named all of their bad bosses nationwide "Wayne" as a way to vent about their terrible work conditions safely without being identified:

https://www.404media.co/bad-amazon-bosses-wayne/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

wrote about how to do science reporting when the papers say stuff like this:

https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-serious-science-hanging-with-hackers/

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zackwhittaker, 1 month ago to random

It's not just you. Yes, Google absolutely sucks.

Great podcast w/ @jasonkoebler: https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2024/04/the-devolution-of-google-search

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

OpenAI's training bot crawled a nonsensical set of sites set up by the author of The Internet for Dummies 3 million times in a day

https://www.404media.co/openai-training-bot-crawls-worlds-lamest-content-farm-3-million-times-in-one-day/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

New: A money laundering crew cleaned millions of dollars through FanDuel, the FBI alleges. Widespread sports gambling ...... what could go wrong?

https://www.404media.co/how-a-money-laundering-crew-allegedly-moved-millions-through-fanduel/

jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

Google announced its AI discovered "millions of new materials." This was v hyped.

A new analysis argues it actually "does not report any new materials." One researcher said "there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical"

https://www.404media.co/google-says-it-discovered-millions-of-new-materials-with-ai-human-researchers/