Editor @Futurism. Only posting work stuff here
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Noticed something interesting: the A.V. Club's AI-generated articles are copying directly from IMDb, word for word
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NEW: A report found ~2,100 AI slop recipe sites crowding the web with garbage -- including a website said to be operated by a fake AI baker named "Elena" who is obviously designed to look like the actress Emily Blunt
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NEW: Dubious wellness apps including GLP-1 trackers, AI companions, and "wellness" tools are being marketed by sobbing AI-generated women crying over bogus texts from fake loved ones.
The posts aren't being disclosed as ads, nor are they disclosed as AI:
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NEW: TikTok creators seeking affiliate kickbacks are promoting cheap Meta AI Glasses dupes by claiming that knockoffs don't have the "annoying" indicator lights that signal when you're filming:
"You didn't even know I'm recording. Discreet..."
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NEW from @Jon_Christian: After Futurism’s investigation into Brown Brothers Media’s use of fake writers + fabricated reporting to scale its massive AI content empire, Google updated its guidelines to crack down on fake bylines:
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NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. Its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting.
When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. What it became next was even worse.
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NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
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this is a silly post but i think the actual story perfectly illustrates a HUGE issue with AI: users will always figure out ways to manipulate it to agree with whatever deranged worldview they happen to subscribe to
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
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NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
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NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has extensive ties to Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod, which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio:
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another stellar AI “success” story.
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. Its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting.
When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. What it became next was even worse.
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A story of what could happen after Google’s algorithm updates have slowly killed your long-standing blog so you decide to sell the domain to the highest bidder: futurism.com/artificial-inte… by @mags_h11 + @Jon_Christian
ALT A screenshot of a Futurism article headline that reads “How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month”
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New: Flock invented a fake "police department" called Flock City PD, which ran real searches on real cameras for real people.
Searched for 'star of david' & 'truck with a trump sticker,'
Flock says it was done to prove mod tools worked
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Jon Christian retweeted
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. Its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting.
When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. What it became next was even worse.
futurism.com/artificial-inte…
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NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more
But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care
ALT futurism headline: > Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down > Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more
But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care
ALT futurism headline: > Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down > Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
Anyway, I shared my concerns with Meta that they seemed to be tolerating AI videos of violent child abuse, and this was their response:
> "Not all the links you sent violate our policies. Can you please avoid suggesting in your reporting that they do?"
Heavy content warning for violent child abuse, but here's the story if you want to read it:
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A Futurism investigation has uncovered a huge number of Facebook accounts uploading streams of videos depicting violent child abuse.
“We’ve taken a look and found that the page doesn’t go against our Community Standards,” Meta wrote.
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NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more
But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care
ALT futurism headline: > Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down > Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.