Emanuel Maiberg
AI
‘Asian Less’ AI Model Turns Asian People White
"Sometimes it might be difficult to get results that don't have Asian or anime influence. This embedding aims to assist with that.”
Emanuel Maiberg
5.2.23
Reddit
Anti-Porn Lobbyists Pressure Reddit to Shut Down Its NSFW Communities
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), formerly Morality in Media, demanded that Reddit ban anyone who uploads porn and eradicate all adult content from the platform.
Samantha Cole
Emanuel Maiberg
5.1.23
AI
An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic
“It is sad that several of you are not understanding the potential of AI and open AI and as a consequence have decided to fight it."
Emanuel Maiberg
4.25.23
AI
Republican AI Ad Uses Cutting Edge Tech to Tell Age Old Lies
A political ad made by the GOP in response to Biden's reelection announcement imagines a dystopia using AI-generated imagery.
Emanuel Maiberg
4.25.23
GAMES
Why Your Next Video Game Will Look Like a Body Cam Video of a Police Shooting
‘Unrecord’ seems real not because it has better graphics than other games, but because it looks like the news.
Emanuel Maiberg
4.21.23
imgur
Imgur Is About to Wipe a Ton of Porn From the Internet
Reddit’s favorite site for sharing porn is going to automatically delete all adult content soon.
Emanuel Maiberg
4.20.23
Twitter
Riley Reid’s Twitter Hacked and Posting Extremely Racist Things for Days to 2 Million Followers
One of the biggest pornstars in the world has been hacked to spread hateful content and Twitter hasn’t done anything about it for days.
Emanuel Maiberg
4.6.23
Games News
Fallout and Doom QA Testers Just Formed the Biggest Union in the US Games Industry
“It's difficult to express in words just how much winning our union matters to us.”
Emanuel Maiberg
Jules Roscoe
1.3.23
Books
Feds Arrest Two Russians Behind ‘World’s Largest Library’ of Pirated Books
The two Russians are charged with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud, and money laundering for operating Z-Library.
Emanuel Maiberg
11.17.22
cheating
Everyone Thinks Nadia Is Cheating at ‘Warzone’ Because She’s Good at the Game
Popular Call of Duty streamer Nadia Amine is playing from a “clean PC” to squash relentless allegations that she’s cheating with aimbots and wallhacks.
Emanuel Maiberg
10.4.22
Tech
ISIS Executions and Non-Consensual Porn Are Powering AI Art
AI is progressing at an astonishing speed, but we still don’t have a good understanding of the datasets that power AI, and little accountability for whatever abusive images they contain.
Chloe Xiang
Emanuel Maiberg
9.21.22
Roblox
Leaked Documents Reveal How Roblox Handles Grooming and Mass Shooting Simulators
Internal documents reveal how exactly the platform played by half of all children in the U.S. is tackling grooming, automatic image scanning, and more with a team of thousands of people.
Joseph Cox
Emanuel Maiberg
8.1.22
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