Notices by Jason Koebler (jasonkoebler@mastodon.social), page 3

A man was applying for a job and got an interview, hopped on the call, and was interviewed by an AI avatar and AI voice: https://www.404media.co/ai-avatars-are-doing-job-interviews-now/

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:

https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/

The military is dealing with the same problems consumers do. Their problems are more absurd. They do not know how to repair a combat warship because the company that makes it says repair info is proprietary and have to fly in repair pros who work for the company itself

What do "Power Tool Institute," the “Irrigation Association,” the “Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers” & tractor companies have in common? They’re lobbying against military right to repair legislation

https://www.404media.co/appliance-and-tractor-companies-lobby-against-giving-the-military-the-right-to-repair/

A year ago today we launched 404 Media.

Thanks to the overwhelming support of our subscribers, we're very proud and humbled to say that our business and company is sustainable and stable, and more scoops, investigations, stunts, etc are coming in year 2

https://www.404media.co/what-we-learned-in-our-first-year-of-404-media/

SCOOP from @samleecole: Leaked Slacks and documents show the incredible scale of NVidia's AI scraping: 80 years — "a human lifetime" of videos every day. Had approval from highest levels of company despite staff legal/ethical concerns:

https://www.404media.co/nvidia-ai-scraping-foundational-model-cosmos-project/

if you're not following: 

- Rabbit got hacked, claimed it did not get hacked, then admitted it got hacked
- did an investigation and found an employee leaked source code that contained API keys, which were exploited
- argued that this did not constitute a security breach
- blamed "hacktivists" and journalists for reporting on this
- said that they were in the process of fixing the issue anyway
- commissioned a pentest to show that everything is fine, actually

put this comms/security strategy in a museum

https://www.404media.co/rabbit-says-breach-not-caused-by-a-breach-is-fault-of-malicious-employee-hacktivists-journalists/

Many websites think they're blocking Anthropic's scrapers but are actually blocking two old bots and NOT the real one

New and renamed AI scraper bots are coming out constantly, and keeping track of all of them is very difficult

https://www.404media.co/websites-are-blocking-the-wrong-ai-scrapers-because-ai-companies-keep-making-new-ones/

At a border security conference, DHS tells law enforcement it has a dog robot it has modified to do Denial of Service attacks on smarthome devices to disable internet of things "booby traps" in homes they're raiding

https://www.404media.co/dhs-has-a-ddos-robot-to-disable-internet-of-things-booby-traps-inside-homes/

if you have the c-00000291.sys file itself can you send it to me; signal is 202-505-1702

The copyright office is considering an exemption that would provide legal protection for researchers jailbreaking / circumventing DRM / breaking terms of service to expose how AI tools work. This is really important bc current ToS are v threatening

https://www.404media.co/it-may-soon-be-legal-to-jailbreak-ai-to-expose-how-it-works/

There is a new genre of serious-seeming "scientific" research paper but the paper is like "we asked ChatGPT if AI could do your job and it said yes" and then news outlets cover them uncritically and they go viral

https://www.404media.co/ai-finds-that-ai-is-great-in-new-garbage-research-from-tony-blair-institute/

Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:

https://www.404media.co/a-beloved-tech-blog-tuaw-is-now-publishing-ai-articles-under-the-names-of-its-old-human-staff/

Google's researchers would like you to know that AI is polluting the internet

https://www.404media.co/google-ai-potentially-breaking-reality-is-a-feature-not-a-bug/

A car rental service in Charlotte has replaced their agents with remote workers on video chat. If you need to speak to a manager you go into an office where you talk to another screen sitting at a big executive desk

https://www.404media.co/car-rental-service-replaces-desk-agents-with-people-on-video-chat/

If we want journalism to survive we need to move away from the model where dozens of humans write the same exact blog about an errant Elon Musk tweet in hopes of appeasing an algorithm that is actively changing to kill this exact business model

https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-tweeted-a-thing/

My explainer of exactly what's happening in the Ticketmaster monopoly case and why Live Nation is so powerful in the first place

https://www.404media.co/the-monopoly-case-against-ticketmaster-explained/

Google's own researchers now say AI is a top vector of disinfo, in a paper that severely and obviously undercounts the problem

https://www.404media.co/google-says-ai-now-leading-disinformation-vector-and-is-severely-undercounting-the-problem/

$60 million well spent

https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/