A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab
…They’ve created a fandom for their company.” But for a scholar like DeWaard, the DeepMind deal is not some major, sacrilegious break in A24’s business practices. In Derivative Media, he…
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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
…The blending of safety evaluation and competitor benchmarking, she said, is “exactly the kind of governance gray zone where safety becomes a convenient cover for anticompetitive practices.” If you or someone you…
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Won TV’s OnlyFans Wars
…In another, she acts as a giantess, squeezing a doll between her breasts, pretending to make her subscribers feel tiny (this, however, is a frequent practice among straight and gay creators). Levinson…
How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple
…After that, the salespeople would get an hour of company time to rehearse the demo and to become fluent with the script, and two chances to practice on fellow employees. On paper…
Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps
…While Instagram’s community guidelines ban posting most kinds of nudity, with exceptions for sculptures and breastfeeding, in practice, the main feed on my Instagram is full of ass shots—nothing frontal…
Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices
…On May 27, the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey subpoenaed FIFA as part of an investigation into its ticketing practices. This system has led to many resellers profiting—and…
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance
…Erotic chatbots are a revenue-driving business, but they are often relegated to niche sites with unremarkable names or Elon Musk’s Grok, known for nonconsensual deepfake images and going into a…
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
…Experts say the incidents underscore the importance of implementing well-known security best practices on the part of AI labs. AI is changing cybersecurity in other ways. Google’s Chrome Browser now…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we disclose Personal Data to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors…
The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop
…In practice, narrative campaigns mostly consist of consulting on digital PR strategy.” Partisan Records, the label behind both Getting Killed and Winter's solo debut, did not respond to a request for…