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New dystopia on Instagram just dropped: AI 'influencers' with hundreds of thousands of followers, millions of views are just an AI generated face deepfaked onto the bodies of real women.

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🇫🇷 new review for Ryan Ornelas 🇺🇲 nytimes.com/2024/04/09/boo…

New from 404 Media: first, ChatGPT was used for writing academic papers. Now, researchers suspect AI is being used to 'review' papers, threatening to undermine the peer review system writ large

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the worst possible outcome for GenAI is here and openly advertised on Twitter. 'IRL Fakes' is a Telegram channel that shares photographs of normal women, not celebrities, and their AI-generated porn, commissioned by a client for as little as $10 404media.co/irl-fakes-wher…

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Jordan is a genius. much of Motherboard's best stories on science, crypto, AI, general internet weirdness, and more is entirely thanks to him. a leading expert on so many subjects and a proper legend

It is incredibly depressing to read how the corpses of legacy publications are reanimated to take advantage of those last vestiges of consumer trust to trick people into buying inferior products.

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Today is the 6 month anniversary of me and a group of friends quitting corporate media and launching 404 Media. I can now say with confidence that 404 Media is the most impactful tech publication on the internet. Here's a list of our most recent impact, thanks to our subscribers—

This is a devastating indictment of Google and major media outlets—and of what Private Equity, SEO manipulation, and affiliate link spamming has done to the internet, search, and media

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