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 …
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 …
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...
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 …
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 @...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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) …
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 …
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 …