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Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats. Subscribe to 404 Media at 404media.co to gain access to an ad-free version of this podcast, as well as a bonus podcast episodes. Subscribers are the bedrock of building a sustainable business for our journalism.
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Leaked Audio: Flock CEO Says the Backlash Isn’t Real
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Is the AI Boom a Bubble?
This week on the pod we’re joined by Mike Isaac a tech reporter who has been at the New York Times for more than a decade and who just recently announced he’s joining The Atlantic. Isaac also is the author of Super Pumped (https://bookshop.
‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the Next Wave of AI Slop
We start this week with Jason’s article about how everyone is apparently reverse-engineering everything. After the break, Joseph tells us about a big AI shakeup at consulting giant Accenture. In the subscribers-only section, Sam and Jason d
Data Centers Are Worse Than You Thought
Big tech is rushing to build hundreds of data centers across the planet to keep up with the computing demand of artificial intelligence. The tech companies are promising the massive buildings will bring jobs and prosperity when they’re buil
Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo
We start this week with Joseph’s article about Raven, previously known as Geospy. This is an AI tool that can geolocate photos, and now says it can pinpoint a specific house based just on one photo taken inside. After the break, Jason expla
The Social Reckoning’s Real-Life Whistleblower
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Leak Show Cops Can Break into Locked iPhones
We start this week with a story from our old friend Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, about how cops can bypass the inactivity reboot on iPhones. After the break, Jason tells us how people are losing their minds over an LLM ‘torture’ prison. I
404 Media Live! The Three Year Anniversary Show
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AI Companies Scraped the Web and Are Destroying the Human Internet
Jason Kint, the CEO of Digital Content Next, has kept a close eye on some of the biggest tech antitrust and copyright court cases. Kint has a knack for finding particularly incriminating court records in complex ongoing lawsuits. We talk to
The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
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The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)
Facial recognition is everywhere now. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students already did that. You now have massively viral accounts that take clips of people, run them throug
OpenAI Admits AI is Killing the Internet
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Is AI Making Us Less Human?
When chatbots become our closest “friends,” what happens to our capacity to care? This week I'm joined by Professor Sherry Turkle. Sherry is a licensed clinical psychologist, the founding director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self,
404 Media x The Intercept LIVE: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
In this bonus collaboration with our friends at The Intercept, 404 Media's Jason Koebler and the Intercept's Sam Biddle and Akela Lacy discuss the ways AI is already used to empower private surveillance companies that filter data to the gov
Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations
We start this week with Joseph’s story about the people who are reading real ChatGPT users’ prompts and conversations. He got a bunch of documents all about these contractors and saw real prompts himself. After the break, Sam tells us all a
Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)
This week we’re joined by Jennie Rose Halprein. Jennie is the executive director of Library Futures, a non-profit that advocates for a fair digital future for libraries and the communities they serve. We have written a bunch of stories abou
DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Over
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This Innocent Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail Because of a False Flock Hit
This week Jason talks to Lindsey Isaacs and her lawyer, Patrick McGeehan. Last year, Lindsey was falsely arrested and imprisoned after authorities used Flock’s license plate reader system to pull over the wrong person in a hit-and-run that
We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI
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How Cyber Sleuths Tracked Down a Nigerian Scammer
This week Joseph talks to Paul Raffile, a cybercrime researcher, and Erin West, founder of Operation Shamrock. The pair recently traveled to Nigeria to track down a scammer and meet a bunch more. This conversation is some fascinating insigh
Cops Are Making Fake Flock Cameras and Amazon Packages
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Your AI Companion Doesn’t Love You with Bridget Todd
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Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
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The Future of Deepfakes and the Decline of Reality with Hany Farid
The past, present, and future of deepfakes, as seen by the world’s leading expert on synthetic media. I think we’re pretty good at telling the difference between an AI generated image and a real photograph, but when I need help I call Hany
Mark Zuckerberg’s 'Superintelligent' AI Future That No One Wants
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How to Surveil the Police (with William Gude)
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This Man Might Go to Prison for Wiping His Phone
Get 15% off OneSkin with the code 404 at https://oneskin.co/404 We start this week with Joseph’s article about Samuel Tunick, the man charged with allegedly wiping his phone before DHS officials could search it. It’s a wild case with a lot
Former Flock Employee Speaks Out: Says He Was ‘Lied To’
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Flock Came to My Town. Here’s What I Did
We start this week with Matthew’s experience of what happened when Flock came to his small town. It’s a microcosm of what is happening all across the United States. After the break, Sam tells us about a bunch of no phone Luddite events. In
This Man Bought Phone Location Data from Around the World
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