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A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. www.404media.co...
By Jason Koebler · 404media.co
The news marks an unusual data breach, and shows that sometimes surveillance technology can leak data in unexpected ways. 404 Media previously reported that Flock exposed the live feeds of some of ...
By Joseph Cox · 404media.co
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million. www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
By Matthew Gault · 404media.co
The file lists Ben Stiller as “Low Risk,” although it's not clear from the file itself what that means. Only one person in the file is listed as “High Risk”: rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie. www.404m...
By Joseph Cox · 404media.co
Researchers report a "serendipitous" discovery while watching videos of crowds: an inexplicable bias toward counterclockwise turning that may be rooted in biology. www.404media.co/scientists-j...
By Becky Ferreira · 404media.co
The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to pol...
By Jason Koebler · 404media.co
A seismic wave from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake bounced off the Earth’s core and hit Japan from below, shifting the entire mainland a quarter-inch eastward.
By Becky Ferreira · 404media.co
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne.' Who is he? www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
By Samantha Cole · 404media.co
Strike 3 Holdings showed that Meta’s IP addresses torrented files with similar file names on the same day, ranging from porn to cartoons and sitcoms, suggesting the company was downloading files ba...
By Emanuel Maiberg · 404media.co
This week, we discuss questionable analysis, mysterious parcels, and the Knicks (sorta).
By Samantha Cole · 404media.co
“You will not speak on Flock tonight,” he responds. “One person designated. You can pick that person … if I gave everyone three minutes to say the same thing, which is opposition to Flock, we’d nev...
By Jason Koebler · 404media.co
For 150 years, paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern frogs. Immaculately-preserved fossils disprove that, scientist...
By Becky Ferreira · 404media.co
The researcher's point is that it’s possible to build a neural network in Age of Empires II that works the same as the ones underlying Claude, ChatGPT, CoPilot, and all the rest. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
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Bluesky· 3d agoIf you think chatbots can have feelings and can be sentient, let us take you through the work of a Microsoft AI researcher who used the real time strategy game Age of Empires II to build a basic neural network using digital goats to prove that "we anthropomorphise too readily."
404 MediaBluesky· 3d agoIf AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
By Matthew Gault · 404media.co
Known cases of cops using Flock to stalk people are almost certainly vastly underreported because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP53...
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Bluesky· 3d agoSalesforce has an internal dashboard which tracks each team’s use of AI with the company also handing out digital badges that describe its employees as a “Champion,” “Innovator,” and “Legend” depending on the AI training courses they’ve completed, according to screenshots seen by 404 Media.
404 MediaBluesky· 3d agoSalesforce’s Internal AI Leaderboard Has Teams Competing for Little Trophies
The leaderboard, sorted by executive and the teams underneath them, has a feature that shows users which employees have not earned the badges. “click to see who 👀,” the leaderboard says.
By Joseph Cox · 404media.co
So the FCC is proposing that anyone getting a phone plan should be required to show a government ID, basically ending anonymity. @josephcox.bsky.social talks more about what we lose with that on today's podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP53...
Also on today's pod, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social talks about cops abusing Flock cameras to stalk their former and current partners and how it takes months to catch the abuse. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP53...
