The editors are fighting back. It's On AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of Wikipedia — and its editors are fighting back. As 404 Media reports, a team of Wikipedia editors has assembled to create "WikiProject AI Cleanup," which describes itself as "a collaboration to combat the ...

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and longtime CEO of Meta-formerly-Facebook, is wearing chains. He's growing his hair out. He's wearing oversized t-shirts emblazoned with his favorite classical expressions — the latest of which, donned this week by the CEO to deliver the keynote speech at Meta's ...

AI-generated text and imagery is flooding the web — a trend that, ironically, could be a huge problem for generative AI models. As Aatish Bhatia writes for The New York Times, a growing pile of research shows that training generative AI models on AI-generated content causes models to erode. ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has moved to ban fake, AI-generated reviews and testimonials. The ordinance, handed down last week, targets a sweeping array of dishonest online review practices ranging from purchasing positive reviews to paying for fake followers to fake a strong social ...

"A video data factory that can yield a human lifetime visual experience worth of training data per day." Leaked documents obtained by 404 Media reveal that AI-powering chip giant Nvidia has been quietly scraping astronomical numbers of YouTube video data to train its AI models — a legally and ...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has some thoughts about fair use: that pretty much anything online is fair for big tech to use, actually! During an interview with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin last week, Suleyman was asked whether AI companies "have effectively stolen the world's IP" in ...

As The New York Times reports, the White House earlier this year announced an initiative to determine whether pushing back menopause — in short, the process by which a woman's ovaries fail, typically during midlife — might extend women's quality of life and health. As the NYT notes, a ...

"This really is the future of law enforcement at some point, whether we like it or not." Dial-A-Drone The Denver Police Department is planning to deploy aerial drones as 911 first responders, The Denver Post reports. Like other police units in the US, Denver law enforcement uses a fleet of ...

A team of Japanese scientists has finished constructing the world's first wooden satellite, Agence France-Presse reports. The satellite dubbed LignoSat, a collaboration between Kyoto University and the company Sumitomo Forestry, is reportedly slated for launch in September onboard a SpaceX ...

As 404 Media reports, ChatGPT creator OpenAI is getting absolutely roasted for allegedly hitting moderators of the r/ChatGPT subreddit with an infringement claim over their use of OpenAI's logo. Per 404, r/ChatGPT mods first took to the subreddit yesterday to share a screenshot of a ...

Musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher went Instagram official with a new beau — the person was untagged, but they appear to be DJ Matteo "Anyma" Milleri — over the weekend. T-minus how many days until her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk, with whom Boucher is locked in a contentious custody battle over ...

Shortly after the Apple Vision Pro's January release, many buyers were horrified to discover that their wildly expensive new headsets didn't let them download and watch porn. (This isn't all too surprising, given Apple's generally porn-avoidant history. Still, as 404 Media reported, buyers were ...