Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
A large hacking group says they have hacked the FBI, stolen data + defaced websites: www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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"One contractor said they see people using AI “all the time and people are let go for it all the time, it’s pretty much the one thing that will get you kicked off ASAP.” The person said, “in a group of thousands there are tons that have been caught.” www.404media.co/people-train...
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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just saw this from a few months ago and, lol, they're all dogshit john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/a...
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Why AI-generated event posters all look alike — and how naming a design style and era, from Bauhaus to punk fanzine, gets far better results.
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at least as a fan we can feel good that the orioles went down playing our best guys and that they are getting important reps that’ll help in the future* *random retreads from other organizations that will definitely not be here next year
Some websites and social media platforms are being inundated with brands trying to get their products noticed by chatbots. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social says that’s because we’ve entered the age of AEO (answer engine optimization). lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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we’re showing some fight, season on the line. great time to ask your franchise catcher to bunt for the first time in his life and pinch hit with a random guy you found on the waiver wire a few weeks ago. shows tons of confidence in these young players and definitely the smart move
paywalls fund journalism and everything reported behind a paywall is aggregated and turned into vertical video that reach many orders of magnitude more people than the original article ever would have. this is not actually a problem and shaming sites that have paywalls means less reporting not more
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 5d agoMy issue with paywalls that I do think rises above simple personal grievance is that the misinformation news outlets don’t use them & now people’s perception of reality is upside down & I think those two things are connected
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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random shout to a piece of software i absolutely love that has made my life so much easier ... cleanshotX ... amazing, wow
very good video + also very good hat
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 6d agoWaymo workers have to clean WHAT? It’s come to light that Waymo uses even more human laborers than they want us to believe, and those workers deal with some pretty graphic stuff. Go check out the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social article by Stephanie Reist. bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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New: Flock invented a fake "police department" called Flock City PD, which ran real searches on real cameras for real people. Searched for 'coexist bumper sticker' 'truck with a trump sticker,' 'star of david'.. Flock says it was done to prove mod tools worked www.404media.co/flock-city-p...
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops shouldn't search for.
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why is sandy alcantara closing games on one day of rest with the marlins 7.5 games back with 9 to play what is going on
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Anyone can upload AI slop music to anyone's Spotify page. We tested it, and it's trivial to do: www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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it is shockingly easy to post AI generated music under the name of real artists on Spotify. It took us five minutes to do. You can do it to small bands, dead artists, even Taylor Swift. This is a giant loophole in digital music distribution that's widely abused www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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Orioles scenarios to still make the playoffs are not going to happen but are not that crazy
can someone tell me what cords i need to play a video on this sick space helmet tv i just picked up? am gonna use this as source www.amazon.com/Micca-Speck-...
i thought PBS did a really good job on this and was very thankful to go on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Fp...
Flock Cameras Are Everywhere. Who’s Watching You? | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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is anyone aware of a way to natively display 9:16 vertical aspect ratio on a regular macos laptop. basically i want to browse and screen record vertical, but on my computer ... without emulators, screen mirroring, or artificially resizing my windows