A hacked database from AI companion site Muah.ai exposes peoples' particular kinks and fantasies they've asked their bot to engage in. It also shows many of them are trying to use the platform to generate child abuse material.

Well, this just got darker.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    2217·
    2 months ago

    Paywall. That site frankly does not even look legit and looking at the plethora of other AI sites I don’t know who would use this one. It’s not even displaying correctly and has like 0 information on anything. If I were to stumble upon that site I’d think it is shady as hell.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      241·
      2 months ago

      You are almost definitely getting downvoted because it sounds like you’re saying 404media is not legit. I realize that you’re not, but I’ll admit I interpreted it incorrectly at first.

        • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
          151·
          2 months ago

          No but having misinterpreted your message once myself and then seeing the replies, I was just letting you know.

          I think when people read “this site” in the comments, they assume it refers to the link itself. So while the rest of your comment makes it clear, you try to connect it to the (incorrect) assumption. Like 404media isn’t a very pretty site so I can see why someone might insult the aesthetics?

          I don’t know, I wasn’t picking a fight or anything

    • S13Ni@lemmy.studioEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      It is a independent publication for tech critical journalism, founded by ex motherboard journalists. Only some of their stuff is paywalled, some only requires free account. Agree on their site but their journalism is usually pretty good.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      72·
      2 months ago

      Literally not paywalled.

      And they did this for free posts because there’s lots of sites that scrap and re"publish" articles.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      117·
      2 months ago

      There are better ways to assess the legitimacy of a media outlet than critiquing its web design. The Wikipedia page might be a good start.

      I don’t like the loginwall, but it doesn’t require payment.

        • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          221·
          2 months ago

          I also think the issue was with your comment. It could’ve been written a bit more clearly

          • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
            314·
            2 months ago

            I don’t know how my comment is unclear. Unless 404 is an AI site somehow, which I wouldn’t even know about.

            • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
              52·
              2 months ago

              Paywall. That site frankly does not even look legit and looking at the plethora of other AI sites I don’t know who would use this one. It’s not even displaying correctly and has like 0 information on anything. If I were to stumble upon that site I’d think it is shady as hell.

              The “Paywall” followed by “That site” makes most people think (me included) that you’re talking about the news outlet, 404media, not the AI site mentioned. Writing something like this:

              Paywall. The AI site they mention does not even look legit (…)

              Wouldn’t leave such a wide margin for misinterpretation

              • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
                24·
                2 months ago

                No. “Paywall” followed by a period, also known as “full stop”, followed by a line break / new paragraph (which you conveniently removed), which all indicate a separation, followed by comparing the AI site to “other AI sites”. You have to be willfully obtuse to assume that when I talk about AI sites I’m referring to the news site there.

                • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  31·
                  2 months ago

                  I think you’re having a Principal Skinner meme moment here…

                  Could it be me who wrote a comment that was slightly unclear?

                  …

                  No, it’s couple dozen or so other commenters who are wrong.

                • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  followed by a line break / new paragraph (which you conveniently removed)

                  I removed nothing. Maybe your client works with single line breaks. The browser ignores a single line break (enter) and only works with one extra empty line.

                  this will           |  this will render
render as a         |  
single line         |  a separate paragraph
    • ted@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      73·
      2 months ago

      I know this isn’t necessarily helpful, but 404media has an account wall, not a paywall. You authenticate by email without a password.