I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet
https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/
For weeks I have been desperately trying to ignore a $200k LEGO YouTuber legal drama but then the police dropped bodycam footage and filmed an insane video in The Matrix's white void room and I could no longer help myself […]
New: A county commissioner in North Carolina refused to let citizens oppose Flock at a meeting this week, instead making dozens of people select one person to represent them: "You will not speak on Flock tonight...I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this." […]
New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months […]
A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works:
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/
In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial […]
New: Google is quietly trying to buy code from Android developers to train an AI coding tool as part of a "confidential" program. Tells them it's a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for "helping society at large" […]
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.
Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI […]
wrote about my new favorite topic: extremely bad billionaire vanity podcasts
https://www.404media.co/washington-post-make-it-make-sense-opinion-podcast/
Canvas hack is extremely bad, the "biggest student data privacy disaster in history" because it contains billions of messages between students and their professors, which can be extremely sensitive: "There's personal circumstances, medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes […]
