This week We Investigated Character.AI and Found a Horror Show. Now It’s Bankrupt. F Futurism 1d ago Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API T The Next Web 2d ago Head of Instagram Says He Has No Idea How to Deal With Wave of Horrible AI Slop F Futurism 3d ago Hundreds of Protestors Descend on Meta Corporate Office Depicting Zuck as the Devil F Futurism 3d ago This month Meta Says Claude AI Tool Triggered No Kings Instagram Suspension B C Covered by 2 sources 7d ago Apple updates App Store rules to ensure it doesn't offer AI nudify apps E Engadget 9d ago No. of deepfake sex videos up for review exceeds last year's figure in 8 months Y Yonhap News Agency 9d ago From Substack to YouTube, here are the social platforms cracking down on AI slop B Business Insider 11d ago OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say A Ars Technica 12d ago Meta Won’t Say If It Violates Its Policies to Upload AI-Generated Videos of Sobbing Little Children Begging for Likes and Follows So They Don’t Get Arrested by Police F Futurism 16d ago Meta Took More Than 48 Hours to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven F Futurism 18d ago Meta rolls out new AI tools to detect ads that secretly lead to child sexual abuse material T TechCrunch 18d ago How AI decision models could change content moderation T TechCrunch 19d ago Anthropic Reports User to the Police F Futurism 20d ago Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots F Futurism 22d ago Woman loses 20 years of ‘digital memories’ after Meta deletes her accounts T TechRadar 24d ago Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots T T Covered by 2 sources 25d ago That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation F Futurism 25d ago Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts F T Covered by 2 sources 27d ago Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism F Futurism Sep 21 Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards T T Covered by 2 sources Sep 17 Oversight Board says Meta's rules for AI deepfakes are 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate' E Engadget Sep 17 Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down F Futurism Sep 9 No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet. T The Next Web Sep 7 Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again) T The Verge Sep 4 MauroPello/stop-the-slop: Spot AI-generated YouTube scripts H Hacker News Sep 4 LinkedIn's 'seems like AI slop' button is a hit B H Covered by 2 sources Aug 24 Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out T B C +1 Covered by 4 sources Aug 12 Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button T The Verge Aug 21 Another woman joins lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM E Engadget Aug 17 Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI T E U +1 Covered by 4 sources Aug 12 Twitch CPO squirms, admits everyone hates its new AI training 'feature' H Hacker News Aug 13 Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them T T Covered by 2 sources Aug 11 Mistral AI Releases Shieldstral 1.0 3B: An Open-Weights Policy-Adaptive Multimodal Safety Classifier Matching Models 7× Its Size M MarkTechPost Aug 8 AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI A Ars Technica Aug 6 Meta apps displayed ads that contained AI-generated CSAM E H Covered by 2 sources Aug 5 Old Reddit could be the next casualty of Reddit's war on AI scraping E A Covered by 2 sources Aug 5 Telegram CEO says 'takedown extortionist' was responsible for the app being briefly delisted by Apple E Engadget Aug 4 Telegram’s Brief App Store Removal Renews Questions About Apple’s CSAM Enforcement C CNET Aug 4 Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation H U Covered by 2 sources Aug 4 Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop' T E B Covered by 3 sources Jul 31 LinkedIn to add AI slop report feature that could train better AI slop M Mashable Jul 31 China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse T The Next Web Jul 29 Best practices for applying Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to code generation workflows A AWS Blog Jul 23 ‘I Want Everything Completely Uncensored’: Here’s What Grok Users Are Complaining About to the FTC G Gizmodo Jul 11 Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images T TechCrunch Jul 7 Big AI Had a Point When It Said It Needed to Be Told What Is Not Okay G Gizmodo Jun 27 Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand T The Next Web Jun 14 Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules T The Guardian Jun 10 Synthesia partners with Cinder to scale moderation before a frame renders T The Next Web Jun 4 Prompting Amazon Nova 2 for content moderation A AWS Blog May 18 ‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy G Gizmodo Apr 29 Claude Leak Shows That Anthropic Is Tracking Users’ Vulgar Language and Deems Them “Negative” F Futurism Apr 4 The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era T TechCrunch Apr 3 Teenager died after asking ChatGPT for ‘most successful’ way to take his life, inquest told T The Guardian Mar 31 Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely F Futurism Mar 29 OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode F T T Covered by 3 sources Mar 26 Meta rolls out new AI content enforcement systems while reducing reliance on third-party vendors T TechCrunch Mar 19 “Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic F Futurism Mar 19 Details Emerge About OpenAI’s “Adult Mode” F Futurism Mar 16 Showing the 60 most recent of 64 stories on Content Moderation