We start this week with a series of articles from Emanuel about a crackdown in the AI industry. After the break, Sam tells us about the ‘Save Our Signs’ campaign which hopes to preserve the history of national parks. In the subscribers-only section, Jason rants about how AI will not save the media industry.
YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-fo7O8B_mk
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a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Payment Processors Are Pushing AI Porn Off Its Biggest Platforms
'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
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How to Fight Back Against AI Bot Scrapers
We’re back! We start this week with Emanuel’s article about Anubis, an open source piece of software that is saving the internet from AI bot scrapers. After the break, Joseph tells us about the new facial recognition app ICE is using and which he revealed. In the subscribers-only section, we do a lightning round runthrough of a bunch of our recent stories about LLMs and how to trick them, or what they don’t understand.
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/lqJL1u8UhmE
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
AI Models And Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’
Fine-Tuning LLMs For ‘Good’ Behavior Makes Them More Likely To Say No
Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon
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The Life Changing Power of Lifting (feat. Casey Johnston)
For this week’s podcast, I’m talking to our friend Casey Johnston, a tech journalist turned fitness journalist turned independent journalist. Casey studied physics, which led her to tech journalism; she did some of my favorite coverage of Internet culture as well as Apple’s horrendous butterfly laptop keyboards. We worked together at VICE, where Casey was an editor and where she wrote Ask a Swole Woman, an advice column about weightlifting. After she left VICE, Casey founded She’s a Beast, an independent site about weightlifting, but also about the science of diet culture, fitness influencers on the internet, the intersections of all those things, etc.
She just wrote A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting, a really great reported memoir about how our culture and the media often discourages people from lifting, and how this type of exercise can be really beneficial to your brain and your body. I found the book really inspiring and actually started lifting right after I read it. In this interview we talk about her book, about journalism, about independent media, and how doing things like lifting weights and touching grass helps us navigate the world.
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/vV0esl4LLIU
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This Site Unmasks Cops With Facial Recognition
We start this week with Emanuel and Joseph’s coverage of ‘FuckLAPD.com’, a website that uses facial recognition to instantly reveal a LAPD officer’s name and salary. The creator has relaunched their similar tool for identifying ICE employees too. After the break, Jason tells us about a massive AI ruling that opens the way for AI companies to scrape everyone’s art. In the subscribers-only section, our regular contributor Matthew describes all the AI slop in the Iran and Israel conflict, and why it matters.
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/1eieXQIaALA
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
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Airlines Sold Your Flight Data to DHS—And Covered It Up
This week we start with Joseph’s article about the U.S’s major airlines selling customers’ flight information to Customs and Border Protection and then telling the agency to not reveal where the data came from. After the break, Emanuel tells us how AI scraping bots are breaking open libraries, archives, and museums. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains the casual surveillance relationship between ICE and local cops, according to emails he got.
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/Auc7NPD2ig4
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Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police
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