AI Audiobook Narrators in OverDrive and the Issue of Library AI Circulation Policy
"Repeating a cover motif? Totally normal, I agree. But Seven Hundred Books? No interviews, promotional posts, or social media that I could find? That’s very strange. The Reddit “collective of authors” theory makes some sense."
Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences'
https://www.404media.co/google-serves-ai-generated-images-of-mushrooms-putting-foragers-at-risk/
"The moderator, who goes by MycoMutant, noticed that when they searched for the Coprinus comatus a fungus commonly known as shaggy ink cap or shaggy mane, the first image in the Google snippet, which is featured above the search results, was an AI-generated image that looked nothing like a real Coprinus comatus."
North Carolina Musician Charged With Music Streaming Fraud Aided By Artificial Intelligence
"SMITH began working with the Chief Executive Officer of an AI music company (“CC-3”) and a music promoter (“CC-4”) to create hundreds of thousands of songs using artificial intelligence that SMITH could then fraudulently stream.”
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christie M. Curtis, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a three-count criminal Indictment charging MICHAEL SMITH in connection with a scheme to create hundreds of thousands of songs
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
“But the videos make clear that Facebook’s AI spam problem is one that is powered and funded primarily by Facebook itself, and that most of the bizarre images we have seen over the last year are coming from Microsoft’s AI Image Creator, which is called “Bing Image Creator” in instructional videos.”
Zombie Alt-Weeklies Are Stuffed With AI Slop About OnlyFans
https://www.wired.com/story/zombie-alt-weeklies-are-stuffed-with-ai-slop-about-onlyfans/
“Former employees are disturbed to see their archival work comingling with SEO porn slop. “It’s wrenching in so many ways,” says former Riverfront Times writer Danny Wicentowski. “Like watching a loved home get devoured by vines, or left to rot.””
AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point
https://batchmon.com/blog/ai-cheaper-than-ads/
“It's now possible to build dynamic, AI generated content entirely supported by ads. …
Will the future of the internet be entirely dynamically generated AI blogs in response to user queries? I don't know. I hope not. But the internet has been on a downward trend for a while now.”
Chum King Express
“But a former AdVon employee told The Verge that the content that AdVon says is created by humans is nearly identical to the AI-generated content they created while working there.”
How disinformation from a Russian AI spam farm ended up on top of Google search results
““In 2016, a disinformation operation like this would have likely required an army of computer trolls,” Sadeghi said. “Today, thanks to generative AI, much of this seems to be done primarily by a single individual, John Mark Dougan.””
A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff
“Worse, the new version of TUAW has “recreated” the archives of the site by running old, real articles through a summarization tool and then republishing new, “bastardized versions” of the old articles under the bylines of real writers who didn’t actually write them”
TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.
I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
https://www.404media.co/i-paid-365-63-to-replace-404-media-with-ai/
"If that latter story sounds familiar that’s because it is a blatant, uncredited rip-off of a story I published on 404 Media the same day. I was able to publish it alongside 52 other articles that day all by myself because I created an entirely autonomous, ChatGPT-powered technology news site that steals other people’s original reporting for just $365.63.”
James Grimmelmann
