Emanuel Maiberg / is on Nostr

Journalist @404mediaco.

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2024-09-04 21:45:07

The Kamala Harris campaign is experimenting with "content sludge" type ads that show two unrelated videos at the same time. typically these videos are made for people with attention spans fried by TikTok. the first "brain rot" political ad? https://www.404media.co/kamala-harris-campaign-experiments-with-ads-for-an-audience-with-brain-rot/

2024-08-29 13:18:26

Apple's dual use problem with face swap apps is not going away until Apple does something https://www.404media.co/apples-huge-dual-use-face-swap-app-problem-is-not-going-away/

2024-06-18 13:10:36

porn is a huge driver of AI image generation and the exact same thing is going to happen (and is already happening) with AI video generation https://www.404media.co/users-jailbreak-ai-video-generator-to-make-porn/

2024-05-20 15:17:46

OOPSIE: A Patreon account selling nonconsensual AI-generated porn sent me a list of his clients' email addresses https://www.404media.co/nonconsensual-ai-porn-maker-accidentally-leaks-his-customers-emails/

2024-04-23 13:59:37

Junk AI tools and parasitic SEO practices are destroying one of the last remaining useful parts of the internet https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and-game-google-with-parasite-seo/

2024-04-22 12:41:34

We've been reporting on a lot of bad Instagram ads over the last 6 months, and these are some of the worst yet. Obvious, explicit ads for nonconsensual AI generated nudes https://www.404media.co/instagram-advertises-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps/

2024-04-09 14:55:39

A bunch of guys are stealing videos of real women, deepfaking AI-generated faces on them, and sharing them on Instagram to funnel users to bogus OnlyFans-type subscription sites https://www.404media.co/ai-influencers-are-deepfaking-their-faces-onto-real-womens-bodies/

2024-04-02 13:05:32

AI tools are going to sneak in and cut corners where people are already stretched thin, and the fact that peer review is one of those places is a really bad sign https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-looms-over-the-peer-review-crisis/

2024-01-25 15:31:51

who could have possibly predicted? (me, you, everyone) https://www.404media.co/founder-of-new-nazi-group-the-base-instructs-followers-to-use-uncensored-ai/