This company is scraping your Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without permission. Extremely wild and weird
https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
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An Adrenaline Junkie Millionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin
Marty Tibbitts made millions as a Detroit telecommunications executive. But he wanted more.
404 MediaAlpha School, an "AI-powered" private school that costs as much as $65k a year, is generating faulty lesson plans and stealing content from textbooks for training data
https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
404 MediaI hope it's clear in the article that this isn't a simple story with heroes and villains, but a look at the complicated community and governance of the open source tools that provide infrastructure for much of the internet
Spent a lot of time talking to people in the Ruby controversy about the ousting of contributors by Ruby Central and what the entire episode says about open source development
https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/
How Ruby Went Off the Rails
What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.
404 MediaThis is the inside story of how Tea's male founder convinced millions of women to share their most intimate secrets on his app, then exposed those secrets in devastating security breaches
https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
404 Mediathe research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
404 Mediaanother reminder that much like the conservatives he is kissing up to now zuck does not care about free speech at all
https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.
404 MediaTexas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media's reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database. Our lawyers formally objected to subpoena. You can read both the subpoena and the objection here:
https://www.404media.co/404-media-objects-to-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxtons-subpoena-to-access-our-reporting/
404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting
404 Media's reporting on an internal Google privacy violation database has been subpoenaed by the State of Texas. We are fighting it.
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Deepfake YouTube Ads of Celebrities Promise to Get You ‘Rock Hard’
Deepfakes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Mike Tyson, and Terry Crews are selling erectile dysfunction supplements on YouTube.
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