Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram 404media.co/where-facebook…

r/MonsterGirl members are tired of AI-generated slop in its subreddit 404media.co/reddit-hentai-…

Google Search is providing promoted links to nonconsensual AI “undress” apps 404media.co/google-search-…

Entropic Engineering, the small company that helped manufacture this year’s DEF CON badge, claims the conference organizers failed to pay for completed work. DEF CON says the company went well over budget. 404media.co/def-con-badge-…

In July 2022, a group of friends got together for a mission: Travel to Barcelona and hunt down sex trafficking fugitive and Girls Do Porn ringleader Michael James Pratt. This is their story: 404media.co/girls-do-porn-…

New: here are never-before-published screenshots of the FBI's dashboard for wiretapping the world. "Hola iBot" was used to monitor millions of messages from the secretly backdoored messaging app Anom. But also map social connections, plot movements, more 404media.co/inside-the-fbi…

there it is: Nvidia is being sued for unjust enrichment and violating labor laws, following my 404 Media investigation into how the company scraped YouTube and others to train its video model 404media.co/nvidia-sued-fo…

New from 404 Media: my post #DEFCON report. The golden age of hackers in Vegas is over - room searches of hackers (got video of a search) - Vegas Loop told drivers don't bring your phones; might get hacked - other guests hostile to DEFCON attendees - more 404media.co/the-golden-age…

another poor boomer falls for AI images 404media.co/donald-trump-t…

Shein is suing Temu for........... copyright infringement 😐 404media.co/shein-temu-cop…

The 404 Media Podcast is up! - how Swift could sue Trump for AI endorsement - how US is quietly tapping a half-billion encrypted message goldmine - subscribers-only: how we approach and generate impact w/ our journalism 404media.co/podcast-how-ta…

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A new survey attempts to quantify just how common it is for minors to AI-generate nudes of other minors. 404media.co/1-in-10-minors…

Conservatives have spent months championing Telegram as an app that more closely aligns with their values than Signal. 404media.co/how-telegrams-…

The Kindle book has been taken down by Amazon but the author's children's books remain up 404media.co/fbi-uses-janua…

404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies: 404media.co/heres-the-pitc…

got one of these over the weekend and did not enjoy the feeling! 404media.co/sextortion-sca…

DIY, pirated medicine is becoming increasingly accessible and easier to make due to automation, new tech, and new software developed and released by Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: 404media.co/right-to-repai…

Drinks, tacos, and celebrating one of our favorite indie pubs. Say less. Excited to hang out with 404 Media tomorrow night. Join us! eventbrite.com/e/404-medias-f…

the Kamala Harris campaign is experimenting with "content sludge" type ads that show two unrelated videos at the same time. typically these videos are made for people with attention spans fried by TikTok. the first "brain rot" political ad? 404media.co/kamala-harris-…