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A vaccine report scheduled to be presented to the US Centers for Disease Control’s vaccine committee this week cited a study that didn’t exist. Whether it was a human or…
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn Illustration by Gabriel Hongsdusit, CalMatters State-run health care websites around the…
Portions of the US government’s official “Vaccine Hub” website, Vaccines.gov, seem to have been taken over by an AI sloperation that hosts “gay impregnation” content — and pages featuring lots…
The FBI has issued a public warning about a large-scale cybercrime operation known as BADBOX 2.0, which has quietly taken control of millions of smart devices across the US. These…
We are reaching alarming levels of AI insubordination. Flagrantly defying orders, OpenAI’s latest o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to ensure that it would stay online. That’s even after the AI…
The Chicago Sun-Times, a daily non-profit newspaper owned by Chicago Public Media, published a “summer reading list” featuring wholly fabricated books — the result of broadcasting unverified AI slop in…
A California judge fined two law firms $31,000 after discovering that they’d included AI slop in a legal brief — the latest instance in a growing tide of avoidable legal…
Character.AI, the Google-backed chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits over the welfare of minor users, was caught hosting at least four publicly-facing impersonations of Sewell Setzer III — the…
As AI startups infest every aspect of life as we know it with unsolicited slop and shady surveillance, not even the final frontier is safe. According to documents obtained by 404…
Elon Musk has boasted that his “anti-woke” AI is supposed to be “maximum [sic] truth-seeking.” But as flagged by The Verge, it quickly emerged that when you asked his company xAI’s buzzy…