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Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads (www.404media.co)

Snapchat is reserving the right to put its users’ faces in ads, according to terms of service related to its “My Selfie” tool (formerly “AI Selfies”), which allows users and their friends to create AI-generated images trained on their selfies....

Homemade Porn Site Promises Not to Train AI on Performers (www.404media.co)

Lustery’s announcement says the company’s new contract clause was inspired by recent agreements between Hollywood studios and two unions, the Writers Guild of America and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, which introduced limitations last year on how studios can use AI for scriptwriting and for generating performances.

Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads (www.404media.co)

Snapchat is reserving the right to put its users’ faces in ads, according to terms of service related to its “My Selfie” tool (formerly “AI Selfies”), which allows users and their friends to create AI-generated images trained on their selfies....

Experts: Lebanon Pager Explosions Likely Not Lithium Batteries Alone (www.404media.co)

Both Wiens and MG said a supply-chain attack in which a remote-triggered explosive was surreptitiously placed into the pagers before they were distributed is more likely. There is precedent for this: in 1996, Israel put a bomb inside of a cell phone and used it to kill Yahya Ayyash, who was then a bomb maker for Hamas.

How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr (www.404media.co)

Rufo’s article went viral, and was shared by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin, and Elon Musk commented, “Yup, concerning.” Musk then claimed without evidence that “there are known vulnerabilities with Signal that are not being addressed. Seems odd…” Musk’s tweet was refuted by...

What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media (www.404media.co)

We have learned that there is an audience that is happy to pay for fearless journalism and fun blogs that are written by real human journalists who prioritize the interests of their readers, not search algorithms and AI bots. And we have learned that a small team can hold companies that are worth trillions of dollars to account...

The Untold Hunt for a Sex Trafficker (www.404media.co)

Charles DeBarber, Brian Holm, Ben Owen, Danni Brooke, and her teenage daughter Amelia were gathered there to follow the trail of a man who authorities had not been able to capture in the three years since he fled the U.S. This library would become the group’s unofficial war room for a three-day mission to find Michael James...

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)

My investigation reveals that the AI images we see on Facebook are an evolution of a Facebook spam economy that has existed for years, driven by social media influencers, guides, services, and businesses in places like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, where the payouts generated by this content, which seems...

Google Search Promotes “Nudify” Apps (www.404media.co)

Searching for “undress apps,” “best deepfake nudes,” and similar terms on Google turns up “promoted” results for apps that use AI to produce nonconsensual nude images, despite a recent update to Google’s ad policies against this exact type of content and a recent effort to derank results for apps that produce...

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)

Abhishek has 115,000 YouTube subscribers, dozens of instructional videos, and is part of a community of influencers selling classes and making YouTube content about how to go viral on Facebook with AI-generated images and other types of spam. These influencers act much like financial influencers in the United States, teaching...

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