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Emanuel Maiberg

@emanuelmaiberg
61 posts
2025-10-17
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
2025-10-17 View on X
404 Media

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …

2025-08-18
reminder that xAI claims it's running the world's biggest supercomputer to do this shit www.404media.co/grok-exposes...
2025-08-18 View on X
404 Media

Grok's website is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including one for a “crazy conspiracist” persona that spends “a lot of time on 4chan”

The website for Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for a wealth of its AI personas …

2025-08-06
pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
2025-08-06 View on X
404 Media

Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving administrators the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like wrong citations

as if enshittification is not self imposed.  if you simply act in the interest of your actual users, it just doesn't happen. X: @halsted_19 : Cool. A Wikipedia entry on “Signs of A...

2025-07-24
I've been talking to an artist who has been testing how easy it is to make Google AI Overview to present nonsense as fact.  It is very easy.  It takes a few people a couple of hours [image]
2025-07-24 View on X
404 Media

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found …

2025-07-16
I was able to find these models thanks to a research paper that's been tracking Civitai content.  It showed that the recent ban resulted in 50,000 models of real people being removed overnight www.404media.co/a16z-backed- ...
2025-07-16 View on X
404 Media

Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform

I'm sick and tired of these corporations getting to decide what we can and cannot post, view, and buy on the internet [embedded post] Ali Alkhatib / @ali-alkhatib.com : we have got...

The paper has really good data on 40 million (!) Civitai images and 230,000 models, showing that despite what Civitai claimed the site is mostly used for porn www.404media.co/a16z-backed- ...
2025-07-16 View on X
404 Media

Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform

I'm sick and tired of these corporations getting to decide what we can and cannot post, view, and buy on the internet [embedded post] Ali Alkhatib / @ali-alkhatib.com : we have got...

2025-06-27
We've seen emails that show ICE is using a facial recognition app to identify people during raids.  The data comes from photos of people taken when they come to or leave the U.S. www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
2025-06-27 View on X
404 Media

Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field

www.404media.co/ice-is-using...  [image] Ryan Teague Beckwith / @ryanbeckwith : The men wearing masks as they shove people in unmarked vans with swapped license plates are using a ...

2025-06-13
Obviously Meta suing a nudify app is a signal that the company is trying to do something about the problem.  I am still skeptical about its moderation efforts given how bad they are across the board at the moment www.404media.co/meta-sues-nu...
2025-06-13 View on X
404 Media

Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta

I mean goddamn!  If you're not even vetting the current ad buys, how the fuck do you think AI-generated ads are going to somehow be less of a clusterfuck? Alexios Mantzarlis / @man...

2025-05-27
This is a pretty big change to how the entire nonconsensual AI-generated content ecosystem works.  I don't think this would have happened without our reporting or support from our subscribers www.404media.co/civitai-ban- ...
2025-05-27 View on X
404 Media

Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn

Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used … Bluesky: @jasonkoebler , @patrickhowelloneill.com , and @...

2025-05-20
I will probably beat this drum for a long time: most people have no idea how bad the state of AI video generation is.  It hasn't escaped containment the same way AI image generation did with Taylor Swift last year, and when it does people will freak out www.404media.co/configuratio...
2025-05-20 View on X
404 Media

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@inf...

2025-05-14
republicans say no state rights on AI regulations www.404media.co/republicans- ...
2025-05-14 View on X
404 Media

House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI models for 10 years

triggered by official GOP tweet — fire back at ‘worthless’ reps Adam Rowe / Tech.co : Republicans Push Bill to Ban State AI Regulation for 10 Years Bluesky: Rep. Rheingans / @reprh...

2025-05-05
Mr. Deepfakes, one of the biggest hellholes on the web, says it's shutting down for good www.404media.co/mr-deepfakes...
2025-05-05 View on X
404 Media

The internet's biggest deepfake porn site, Mr. Deepfakes, says it is shutting down because a “critical service provider has terminated service permanently”

Mr. Deepfakes, the go-to site for nonconsensual deepfake porn, says it's shutting down and not coming back because it lost a service provider and data.

2025-04-28
tariffs are putting kickstarter projects in an impossible situation www.404media.co/kickstarter- ...
2025-04-28 View on X
404 Media

Kickstarter introduces a “Tariff Manager tool” that lets creators add extra charges for backers on projects that were already fully funded

Kickstarter projects have the option of asking backers for more money in order to manage the costs of Trump's tariffs. Bluesky: @emanuelmaiberg and @josephcox Bluesky: Emanuel Maib...

2025-04-06
all hail the decel in chief www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...
2025-04-06 View on X
404 Media

In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies

In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …

2025-04-05
all hail the decel in chief www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...
2025-04-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: StubHub, Klarna, eToro, and adtech group MNTN have paused their IPO plans as President Trump's trade war upends the global economy and public markets

Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions and initial public offerings are on hold as Donald Trump's trade war upends the global economy …

all hail the decel in chief www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...
2025-04-05 View on X
404 Media

In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies

Effective accelerationists didn't just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot.

2025-01-07
extremely pathetic of zuck to pretend to care about free expression while censoring his own employees' criticism of new board member Dana White www.404media.co/facebook-del...
2025-01-07 View on X
404 Media

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...

extremely pathetic of zuck to pretend to care about free expression while censoring his own employees' criticism of new board member Dana White https://www.404media.co/...
2025-01-07 View on X
404 Media

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...

2024-12-22
this is pretty funny but also just an automated process for what we reported people have been doing for a long time  —  www.404media.co/apparently-t...
2024-12-22 View on X
404 Media

Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities

ABSTRACT We introduce Best-of-N (BoN) Jailbreaking … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : y0U hA5ε tU wR1tε l1Ke tHl5 to Break GPT-4o, Gemini Pro and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI Safety Meas...

2024-12-21
this is pretty funny but also just an automated process for what we reported people have been doing for a long time  —  www.404media.co/apparently-t...
2024-12-21 View on X
404 Media

Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities

New research from Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies and the developer of the Claude family of Large Language Models …