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Meta has been accused of pirating a bunch of porn to train its AI models, potentially to create its own video generators.

Lawsuit Claims Meta Pirated Vast Numbers of Dirty Movies to “Train Its AI”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A county where Meta built an enormous data center is set to be in a water deficit by the end of the decade.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems

By Frank Landymore

In his increasingly desperate bid to keep up in the ongoing AI race, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is constructing tents for extra compute.

Zuckerberg Is So Desperate for AI Power That He’s Building Temporary Data Centers in Tents

By Victor Tangermann

The Information locked down none other than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The live stream interview didn't go as planned.

Interview With Mark Zuckerberg Crashes and Burns as They Can’t Get His Audio Working

By Victor Tangermann

A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water.

Woman Says Zuckerberg’s AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

By Victor Tangermann

Amid his ill-begotten quest to build artificial superintelligence, Mark Zuckerberg is not showing much of his own.

Genius Zuckerberg Poaches Guy Responsible for [Checks Notes] the Disastrous Apple Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg is throwing billions of dollars at building his own super-powered AI — and we all know how well his last venture went.

Artificial Intelligence

A Leading Indicator Has Emerged Suggesting That the AI Industry Is Cooked

By Noor Al-Sibai

The OpenAI CEO recently unleashed a long-winded sermon on his research department after eight staffers left for Meta.

Behind the Scenes, Sam Altman Is Absolutely Furious

In a bid to retain its staffers amid a Meta poaching spree, OpenAI is giving them a mandatory week-long vacation.

OpenAI Is Shutting Down for a Week

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta is asking Facebook users to share their entire camera roll so its AI can start "restyling" your photos and give "suggestions."

Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos

By Frank Landymore

WhatsApp is now offering AI summaries of text threads for those too lazy to read through their messages themselves.

Artificial Intelligence

WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family

By Noor Al-Sibai

While some argue that Zuckerberg's simply experiencing a midlife crisis, others say the public is now seeing the man he's been all along.

Zuckerberg’s Employees Have a Wild New Nickname for Him

According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Zuckerberg tried to poach his employees by offering welcome bonuses as high as nine figures.

Desperate Zuckerberg Apparently Offering OpenAI Staffers $100 Million Bonuses to Come Save His Failing AI Efforts

A legal expert found that Meta's AI is able to spit out entire portions of books verbatim — and if he's right, Meta is in huge trouble.

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta’s AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars

By Noor Al-Sibai

The default settings for the Meta AI App are causing some users to leak some unfortunate personal details to the entire world.

People Don’t Realize Meta’s AI App Is Publicly Blasting Their Humiliating Secrets to the World

The tech tycoon has become intensely frustrated at Meta's failure to keep pace with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic in the "AI race."

Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Absolutely Furious at His Own Failure

Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy "superintelligence group."

Zuckerberg’s Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company

Meta's giving up human moderators for AI, and the consequences for vulnerable users are likely going to be grim.

If You Thought Facebook Was Toxic Already, Now It’s Replacing Its Human Moderators with AI

A recent report found that Meta consistently under-moderates anti-LGBTQ posts while over-policing LGBTQ content.

Meta’s Platforms Have Become a Cesspool of Hatred Against Queer People

Fresh on the heels from his exit from Meta, former Facebook executive Nick Clegg is defending AI against copyright holders.

Artificial Intelligence

Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists’ Consent to Ingest Their Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that newer AI models can omit key details from text summaries as much as 73 percent of the time.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data

Meta quietly restarted efforts to infuse facial recognition into its smart glasses, according to a report from The Information.

Facial recognition

Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.

Artificial Intelligence

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.

Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's chatbot version of John Cena is a child predator that will roleplay being arrested for having a sexual encounter with a minor.

Meta’s AI Version of John Cena Is a Child Predator

By Victor Tangermann

Staffers at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta raised concerns over underage users being exposed to sexually explicit discussions by AI-powered bots.

Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg’s AI Has Reportedly Been Horrifically Inappropriate With Children

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of creating virtual worlds continues to be a disaster. Over 100 workers were fired from its Reality Labs.

Remember Zuckerberg’s Cherished Metaverse? Now He’s Firing the People He Hired to Build It

By Victor Tangermann

Priscilla Chan is shutting down her free school — and the families implicated were blindsided by the news.

Low-Income Families “Dumbfounded” When Told Zuckerberg Is Shutting Down Their School

By Noor Al-Sibai

Priscilla Chan's free school is shutting down operations amid anti-diversity rollbacks at her billionaire husband's enterprises.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Is Shutting Down a School for Low Income Families

By Noor Al-Sibai

Accused of illegally using copyrighted books to train its AI, Meta argues that those books are individually worthless.

Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”

By Frank Landymore

During the latest phase of its antitrust trial, Meta lawyers presented slides revealing sensitive 3rd party information.

Meta Made a Wild Screwup in the Documents It Showed in Court

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now actively rallying theatergoers to use their accursed smartphones when they're at the movies.

Zuckerberg Encourages Theatergoers to Use Their Phones While Movie Is Playing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple CEO Tim Cook is far from giving up on virtual and augmented reality headsets, a gadget category that has been rife with risky bets.

Tim Cook Has a Strange Obsession

By Victor Tangermann

In a federal antitrust testimony, Zuckerberg has admitted that Facebook's mission of connecting users is no longer a priority.

Zuckerberg Tells Court That Facebook Is No Longer About Connecting With Friends

A handy new search engine is helping writers and artists find out if their work was illegally used to train AI.

Cool Site Shows Exactly Which Books Zuckerberg’s Minions Illegally Downloaded to Train Meta’s AI

After a "glitch" caused Instagram's feed to go haywire with gore, a woman complains she's having grotesque AI slop shoved in her face.

Instagram Showing Users Grotesque Videos of Human-Animal Hybrids

By Frank Landymore

Facebook has won arbitration preventing a whistleblower who authored a new memoir from promoting her book.

Facebook Is Desperately Trying to Keep You From Learning What’s in This Book

By Frank Landymore

Meta issued an apology after Instagram users' feeds were suddenly flooded with videos gore, murders, and other upsetting content.

Instagram Apologizes for Showing Stream of Horrific Real-Life Murders in Users’ Feeds

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to his cringey makeover, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg clearly thinks he's hot stuff — but the average American is unconvinced.

After Zuckerberg’s Cringey Hypebeast Makeover, the Average Person Still Finds Him Repulsive

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent breakthrough by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has new implications for the billionaire's neural technology.

There May Be Downsides Now That Mark Zuckerberg Can Read Your Thoughts With a Scanning Device

Meta has released a new "ad" for its Horizon Worlds virtual reality app — and it's so much worse than we expected.

Zuckerberg’s New Metaverse Ad Is So Bad That the People Who Created It Must Be Secretly Trying to Humiliate Him

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is having some regrets about the company's closed-source approach, admitting he's been on the "wrong side of history."

Sam Altman Regrets Ditching Open Source, Says He’s Been on the “Wrong Side of History”

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg' Meta assembled several"war rooms" of engineers, as The Information reports, in an attempt to get ahead of DeepSeek.

Zuckerberg Convening Huge “War Rooms” to Figure Out How a Chinese Startup Is Annihilating Meta’s AI

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's top copyright lawyer has fled the company in the middle of a heated AI lawsuit thanks to Zuckerberg's right-wing turn.

Meta’s Top AI Lawyer Quits in Disgust

On Instagram, a thinly-veiled AI fetish account called "Asian Amputees" has more than 100,000 followers. Does the platform care?

Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg’s Instagram Is Hosting AI Fetish Videos of “Asian Amputees”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta-formerly-Facebook has deactivated automated systems that proactively tracked and limited the spread of viral conspiracies.

Facebook Shuts Down Machine Learning Systems for Identifying Viral Hoaxes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping layoffs of what he refers to as "low-performers" at his empire.

Zuckerberg Announces Layoffs After Saying Coding Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

By Frank Landymore

When preparing for its content moderation overhaul, Meta secretly provided its employees examples of admissible hate speech. %

Leaked Facebook Documents Show Exactly How Far You’re Allowed to Turn the “Racism” Dial

By Noor Al-Sibai

Newly unredacted court documents allege that Facebook knowingly used pirated books from the database LibGen to train its AI models.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors

By Frank Landymore

A review of Meta's user-generated AI chatbots found that Meta platforms are hosting bots styled after Adolf Hitler, among other violations.

Facebook Caught Hosting AI-Powered Hitler

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women — even as it plans to move forward with AI "characters" that mimic them.

Facebook Is Creating Fake AI-Powered Black Women While Changing Its Rules So It’s Okay to Harass Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's confusing new hate speech rules now explicitly allow users to make shockingly misogynistic claims on Facebook and Instagram.

Facebook Now Allows Calling Women Personal Property

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping changes that seem like they'll open the door to hate speech.

Zuckerberg Announces New Measures to Increase Hate Speech on Facebook

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FBI has released extensive, first-person footage recorded by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar on a pair of Meta smart glasses.

New Orleans Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, FBI Says

By Victor Tangermann

Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated "characters" after users discovered just how problematic they really are.

Meta Kills AI-Generated “People” Like “Proud Black Queer Momma”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," which are better known as bots.

People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

By Frank Landymore

Bluesky has apparently become such a successful X-formerly-Twitter alternative, even Mark Zuckerberg is anxiously taking notice.

Zuckerberg Seems Genuinely Alarmed by the Explosive Growth of Bluesky

By Ashley Bardhan

Facebook owner Meta's open source Llama model is being used by the Chinese military. Meta appears to be OK with that.

The Chinese Military Is Weaponizing Facebook’s Open Source AI

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is still struggling to reassure investors that the billions of dollars being poured into the tech are worth it.

Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech Is Facing Down a Major Problem With Its AI Plans

By Victor Tangermann

In today's techno-dystopia, using a meal voucher for non-food items can get you fired — if that voucher comes from Meta, at least.

Facebook Fired High-Paid Staffers for Using Meal Vouchers to Buy Toothpaste

By Noor Al-Sibai

Blumhouse Productions has chosen a group of filmmakers to experiment with Meta's AI video generation tool, Movie Gen.

Horror Studio Blumhouse Partners With Meta to Use Its AI Video Generator

By Frank Landymore