Below are posts associated with the “404media.co” source.
🔗 linkblog: Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Do Lexington next! Also, Flock’s statement is so gross.
🔗 linkblog: ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
If edtech doesn’t include this horrifying monstrosity, the field isn’t being broad enough in its inquiry.
🔗 linkblog: How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart
Stories like this should take a prominent place in every discussion about generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
Very glad for 404 Media’s podcast, because I somehow missed when they published this horrifying story.
🔗 linkblog: Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
Long before I ever knew what generative AI was, I was grumpy about the idea of Grammarly because I was suspicious of deferring to a computer on what “good writing” looks like. I appreciate Koebler’s thoughts here for the way it shows how generative AI—including Grammarly now, apparently—is doing something similar on an even larger scale.
🔗 linkblog: 'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech
Some important observations by Ian Linkletter in this interview.
🔗 linkblog: University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
Well, this is certainly… something.
🔗 linkblog: 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Required reading, imo.
🔗 linkblog: With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom
Good observations on how messed up these prediction markets are.
🔗 linkblog: What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
The headline isn’t what I would have chosen, but there’s a lot worth reflecting on in here.
🔗 linkblog: Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Who could possibly have predicted this?
🔗 linkblog: 'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
So many horrifying details crammed into a single article. Grateful to be a 404 Media subscriber and angry at ed tech AI grift.
🔗 linkblog: With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring sucks and is creepy. Here’s the killer paragraph from this story;
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir or some other high-profile surveillance companies, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
🔗 linkblog: Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’
Unsurprising, I guess, but still newsworthy.
🔗 linkblog: ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
Another story that speaks to the power of Ellul’s “image vs. word” distinction. It must be trustworthy because it comes from a machine…
🔗 linkblog: DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
This shooting is making me panicky, and I’m honestly trying to not read any more about it, but this is important.
🔗 linkblog: Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again
Oof, this line:
what is clear to me from following this Telegram community for a couple of years now is that nonconsensual sexual images of real people, including minors, is the cost of doing business with AI image generators
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Sometimes, AI news gets so depressing that it loops back around to hilarious.
🔗 linkblog: Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Easy to dunk on Grokipedia, but this article gets at some ideas that I think are particularly important. If I had more time for blogging this semester, I’d write something up on Ellul’s image vs. word dichotomy and how it aligns with Koebler’s thoughts here.
🔗 linkblog: Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
Booooooo. That Wikipedia is being mined by AI scrapers and negatively affected by AI search is such a perfect encapsulation of my concerns about generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
Look, maybe this is a genuine misstep on OpenAI’s part, but it still feels to me like the company started with the guardrails off so that it could use this kind of user backlash to push the Overton Window in conversations with rightsholders.
Also, remember that we small potatoes rightsholders will never be able to have our voices heard like Disney or Nintendo.