Et me revoici pour une cinquième saison où je m'occupe de ce blog à (quasi-)plein temps ! Comme vous pouvez le voir, le blog a pas mal changé de tête, et les changements ne sont pas _que_ graphiques !
1er septembre 1939 : Les armées de l'Allemagne nazie envahissent la Pologne sans déclaration de guerre. Cet événement provoque l'entrée en guerre du Royaume-Uni puis de la France, et le début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Europe. #CeJourLà #OnThisDay fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconde_…
"Tapisserie de Bayeux : la préfecture du Calvados supprime de son compte une vidéo qui déconseillait le transport de l’œuvre" via @libe Cette polémique autour de la tapisserie de Bayeux doit nous rappeler une chose : le patrimoine n'est pas le joujou du président, mais un bien collectif et public qui nous appartient à toutes et tous. liberation.fr/checknews/tapiss…
Plusieurs contenus institutionnels relatifs au déplacement de l’œuvre millénaire ont été rendus inaccessibles, alors que son prêt au British Museum, voulu par l’Elysée, suscite la polémique.
Indignazione pressenza.com/it/2025/09/indig… I malfattori e gli assassini del secolo crescono e il neo-nazismo sconfitto e restaurato fa rimettere in moto i nuovi repubblichini e le loro nuove squadre d’azione, che rinnegano la Carta e spazzano via in fretta e furia gli orrori… Pino Dicevi
L'Europe ayant fait le choix de n'utiliser ses réglements (DMA et DSA) que comme outil de négociations commerciales plutôt que comme lois votées démocratiquement à faire respecter sans faillir, il est parfaitement logique que Trump fasse de même.
A peine l’encre séchée sur l’accord commercial avec l’Europe, Donald Trump lance un ultimatum pour éliminer les règlementations du numérique, un sujet de contentieux transatlantique. L’Europe est au pied du mur, coincée entre commerce et sécurité.
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
Francois Bayrou, in an interview with French media on Sunday, accused Italy of fiscal dumping. The Italian government denied it, while members of the key parties criticised the attack, defending the soundness and attractiveness of their tax system.
Juliana Moreira ed Edoardo Stoppa, ospiti di Caterina Balivo a La Volta Buona, hanno ripercorso i 17 anni della loro storia d'amore, mostrando il lato più autentico e ironico della loro coppia... leggi
Tech optimists have done such incredible damage to our environment
"It’s easy in tech circles to assume these problems will “work themselves out” – that innovation can keep pace with need, or that some carbon-neutral miracle is around the corner. That blind confidence ignores hard limits. Physics tells us that data centers and chips require energy, and water for cooling. There’s no escaping that in real world, each new server farm is another drain on land and sky."
Neue Details zum brutalen Polizeieinsatz gegen die Anti-Kriegs-Demo von #RheinmetallEntwaffnen in #Köln: Es gab keine »Gasflaschen«, die als Rechtfertigung für die Attacke behauptet wurden. Die Pressestelle der Polizei geht zu der #Falschmeldung auf Tauchstation. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193703.…
Neue Details zum Kessel gegen Anti-Kriegs-Demo in Köln: Von der Polizei entdeckte »Gasflaschen« waren wohl Kartuschen für Helium-Ballons. Ein Versammlungsleiter wirft ihr als Grund für den Angriff Vergeltung vor.
Through the Indonesian Safe House Network, we — a small circle of trusted friends working professionally together — are committed to establishing a network of safe spaces across several regions of the archipelago.
Objectives
1. To provide a safe and discreet place for individuals in need of refuge.
2. To serve as a point of recovery, protection, and reflection for people at risk.
3. To maintain the sustainability of the safe houses with integrity and professionalism.
4. To offer employment opportunities in literacy and publishing, helping residents gain independence and contribute meaningfully.
La #clericalata della settimana è dell’Unione Nazionale Comuni, Comunità, Enti Montani (UNCEM) che ha partecipato all’incontro organizzato a Benevento dai vescovi all’insegna dell’alleanza tra enti locali e Chiesa cattolica. Le altre segnalazioni 👇 blog.uaar.it/2025/09/01/la-cle…
Ogni settimana pubblichiamo una cartolina dedicata all’affermazione o all’atto più clericale della settimana compiuto da rappresentanti di istituzioni o di funzioni pubbliche.
E come possono i vescovi aiutare quelle zone? Vendendo le ricche proprietà della Chiesa (infruttifere per la comunità), investendo in attività veramente produttive, non solo finanziarie, concedendo prestiti a tasso zero a chi per quelle terre veramente si impegna. E non sempre e solo chiedendo.
È uscito il 9o episodio di Orbit - Philosophy (la lista completa è nell'immagine): Cos’è (veramente) l’INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE? | AI in Orbita – FILOSOFIA con Luciano Floridi youtube.com/watch?v=olZDxApTGM…
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Das Bild zeigt eine digitale Anzeige mit einem schwarzen Hintergrund. In der Mitte befindet sich ein grauer Rechteck, in dem die Textinformation "Kombinierte Reichweite" in weißer Schrift steht. Rechts daneben ist die Zahl "849 km" in großen weißen Ziffern angezeigt, was die kombinierte Reichweite eines Fahrzeugs in Kilometern angibt. Links neben dem Text ist ein kleines weißes Symbol zu sehen, das eine Tankstelle und eine Elektriksteckdose darstellt, was auf eine Kombination aus Benzin- und Elektrofahrzeugen hinweist.
Bereitgestellt von @altbot, privat und lokal generiert mit Ovis2-8B
"[Substack] announced that all writers would be required to offer Apple’s in-app purchase (IAP) payment option. That means that Apple will be collecting a 30% fee for all subscriptions purchased on Substack via IAP."
This is what happens when you depend on a walled garden inside a walled garden
@alessandro Canada was 🤏🏼 this close to also electing one until the other said he was going to invade. And, again, you're generalizing a whole population and perhaps that's bad too, actually.
A reminder that a government is not its people. Remind yourself of that before the next time you spread prejudiced ideas.
once again I remind everyone that WordPress, Ghost and others can do everything Substack does without a walled garden, worse tech engine and without a leadership that amplifies hate
#Mastodon bzw "Moderatoren" haben mich "verwarnt",
Ohne den Sachverhalt zu prüfen oder klar zu benennen oder einen flüchtigen Blick auf die "Diskussion" zu werfen. Die darin bestand, dass ich nen anonymen User immer wieder ermahnte, es bitte gut sein zu lassen. Mich nicht weiter zu belästigen etc.
Der Stalker stellte in zig Kommentaren seine Recherchen (!) über meinen konkreten Wohnort, konkrete Lebensumstände an, um einzuschüchtern.
Warum prüfen Mods hier nichts, bevor sie Partei ergreifen?
Next in our circle of guardians: our fancy leopard geckos.
👑 Queen Lizzie – The Sunlit Matriarch Our fairy godmother — radiant, gentle, full of joy. We welcomed her in her 8th year of life in 2024.
🔥 Blaze Charmander – The Darter of Fire Lost but not broken, small yet powerful. A fiery survivor. Taken in as a baby in 2023, lost for a month, then found.
Together they embody divine feminine & masculine — balance in scales and flame.
Each November, I make a quiet detour to a small pond on the outskirts of Albany, Georgia, where Hooded Mergansers (Lophodytes cucullatus) return like clockwork. This one is typical—striking, watchful, and never quite still.
If you enjoy photos of birds and other wildlife, take a look at my photo gallery.
Scopri la storia dei giornali americani, dal culto dell'obiettività al caos digitale. Dal 3 al 5 ottobre a Ferrara partecipa al workshop di Alexander Stille sulla stampa statunitense. Puoi trovare più informazioni e iscriverti qui: intern.az/1N4q
Volle agenda deze week in de Tweede Kamer. Dit zijn de onderwerpen:
-Trump zet de Digitale Autonomie van EU/Nederland verder onder druk. -Kabinet moet in actie voor gedupeerde Noodfonds Energie. -Landelijke campagne, inleveren oude laptops voor scholieren is nodig -Debataanvraag datalek Bevolkingsonderzoek Baarmoederhalskanker
Ik hou jullie op de hoogte! Heb je vragen of suggesties? Weet me hier te vinden of mail naar b.kathmann@tweedekamer.nl
Vraag: Waarom is dit niet controversieel verklaard en waarom reageert het demissionaire kabinet al, voor de publieke internetconsultatie is afgelopen? security.nl/posting/903066/Dem…
How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone
The internet is becoming harder to use because of unintended consequences in the battle between adult content creators who are trying to protect their livelihoods and the people who pirate their content.
Porn piracy, like all forms of content piracy, has existed for as long as the internet. But as more individual creators who make their living on services like OnlyFans, many of them have hired companies to send Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices against companies that steal their content. As some of those services turn to automation in order to handle the workload, completely unrelated content is getting flagged as violating their copyrights and is being deindexed from Google search. The process exposes bigger problems with how copyright violations are handled on the internet, with automated systems filing takedown requests that are reviewed by other automated systems, leading to unintended consequences.
These errors show another way in which automation without human review is making the internet as we know it increasingly unusable. They also highlight the untenable piracy problem for adult content creators, who have little recourse to stop their paid content from being redistributed all over the internet.
I first noticed how bad some of these DMCA takedown requests are because one of them targeted 404 Media. I was searching Google for an article Sam wrote about Instagram’s AI therapists. I Googled “AI therapists 404 Media,” and was surprised it didn’t pop up because I knew we had covered the subject. Then I saw a note from Google at the bottom of the page noting Google had removed some search results “In response to multiple complaints we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.”
The notice linked to the Lumen Database, which keeps a record of DMCA complaints, who filed them, and for what. According to the Lumen Database, the complaint was filed by a company called Takedowns AI on behalf of content creator Marie Temara. Takedowns AI is one of many companies that help content creators, especially adult content creators, to scan the internet for images and videos they posted behind paywalls on platforms like OnlyFans and posted elsewhere for free. These companies also file DMCA takedown requests and navigate the copyright systems of big platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit. One of the most effective ways of preventing people from finding this pirated content is sending DMCA takedown requests to Google asking the search engine to delist results to sites that share it. As its name implies, Takedowns AI heavily relies on automation to do this work.
The complaint that impacted 404 Media included a list of 68 links to different websites that allegedly violated Temara’s copyright on content she posted to Instagram, OnlyFans, and other platforms. This was the allegedly offending link on 404 Media, which is a collage Sam made for her AI Facebook therapists story.
The collage includes Meta's AI-generated profile pictures of three of these AI therapists. The story itself has nothing to do with Temara, and the profile pictures look nothing like her. In fact, it would be hard for anyone to claim copyright for that image because in 2023 a U.S. court ruled that AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted.
I went through every other link in the same complaint and couldn’t find even one link that looked like it violated Temara’s copyrights. There were images from Grand Theft Auto V, famous baseball players, robots, stock images of people at theme parks, and movie posters, none of which looked remotely similar to Temara. In addition to 404 Media’s article about AI therapists, some of the pages that Google removed from search results due to this complaint included tech site wccftech.com, horror movie site bloody-disgusting.com, and rugby and wrestling sites.
These links are also just part of one complaint out of hundreds that Takedowns AI files every day. I looked through dozens of complaints to Google filed by Takedowns AI that were archived by the Lumen Database. The vast majority of them appear to be legitimate, but I did find other egregious mistakes. One of the worst mistakes I saw was a takedown request filed on behalf of a creator who goes by “honeyybee” against an article about actual honey bees on the University of Missouri’s website. The takedown request clearly targeted the article and caused Google to remove it from search results just because it was about a subject with a similar name to that of Takedown AI’s client.
Temara and honeyybee did not respond to a request for comment.
Takedowns AI CEO Kunal Anand told me that the company has filed 12 million takedowns requests to Google since 2022. He said that Takedowns AI uses facial recognition, keyword searches, and human reviewers to find and take down copyrighted content, and said he was overall confident in the company’s accuracy. Anand told me that sometimes his clients use Google Search’s API to see what results come up when they search for themselves, then ask Takedowns AI to remove everything on that list as is, which is what he thinks might have happened with Temara and honeyybee.
“We don't really review it [the list] because we are an agent for them,” Ananad said. “For the requests that we send out ourselves, usually they get reviewed, but sometimes they [clients] do a search by themselves, and they come across some content and they flag it and they're like, ‘We want this taken down.’ We don't review that because that is something that they want taken down. I'm not particularly sure about this case, but that is what happens. What we planned on doing was also reviewing these but it's usually not very fruitful, because the user is very sure they want that claim. And even if we say, ‘Hey, we don't think you should do that,’ they're like, ‘We want to do it. Just do it because I'm paying you for this.’ And if we just say, do it yourself, that kind of takes away the business from us. So that is basically how it works.”
Yvette van Bekkum, the CEO of Cam Model Protection, a company that’s offering the same services as Takedowns AI but that has been in business since 2014, told me that her company does not process requests like Anand described for clients. Cam Model Protection also uses AI, reverse image searches, and keyword searches to find infringing material, but it has systems in place to prevent false positives, Bekkum told me. These include a database of “whitelisted” content that it shouldn’t file takedown requests against, and human verification that each link the company sends to Google actually points to infringing content.
“Just a news article is not a copyright infringement,” Bekkum told me. “If there is no content being used or only a name being named, I don't need to explain to you that it's not in violation. Everybody can make a mistake, of course, but if you just randomly gather [links] and then report it, if it's not grounded on an infringement, you should not report it, of course.”
Bekkum and Ananad both said they understand why creators don’t want to click on every link that might be infringing on their copyright. It’s not only too much work—that’s why companies like Cam Model Protection exist in the first place—it also requires sifting through a sea of pornography they don’t want to see.
“This process is so time consuming,” Bekkum said. “And they do not want to focus on all that negative energy in Googling their name and seeing pages and pages full of links leading to illegal content.”
Elaina St. James, an adult content creator, told me she used a copyright takedown service and that it was most helpful when she flagged offending sites herself. St. James said she used the service to take down pirated content as well as catfishing accounts using her images, a problem 404 Media previously talked to her about. Overall, St. James said these services are useful but imperfect.
“I think they [DMCA takedown request companies] should stop overpromising,” she told me in an email. “There are some platforms—TikTok in particular—that do not comply. Tube sites in foreign countries also rarely comply.”
Automation of DMCA takedown requests has existed for years and has always resulted in some errors. Similar problems have also plagued YouTube’s automated Content ID system for years. More sites are likely to get caught in the crossfire as more content creators strike out on their own and turn to these services in an attempt to protect their income.
It’s an issue at the intersection of several critical problems with the modern internet: Google’s search monopoly, rampant porn piracy, a DMCA takedown process vulnerable to errors and abuse, and now the automation of all of the above in order to operate at scale. No one I talked to for this story thought there was an easy solution to this problem.
“It's all science fiction, but in the dumbest possible way,” Meredith Rose, a senior policy counsel with Public Knowledge who focuses on copyright, DMCA, and intellectual property reform, told me. “At the end of the day, the DMCA takedown provisions are a way to get speech off the internet. That's a very powerful tool. Even if you're not outright malicious, if somebody says something nasty about you and you want to keep your name out of their mouth, the DMCA kind of lets you do it without anybody checking your work. And so it is this really interesting case study in when you build these tools that give the power to anybody, even people who might not be who they say they are in these applications to get stuff taken down. Abuse happens. Sometimes it happens at scale. It happens for all different kinds of reasons. Sometimes it's just malice, sometimes it's incompetence, sometimes it's buggy automation [...] I feel like with AI, we're going to see a lot more of this.”
Anand said he believes the responsibility is with creators.
“The best way to solve that is to educate the creators more that this is not their content,” he told me. “A lot of creators are very scared, and what they want is everything about them taken down from everywhere. And then they start getting more aggressive with their takedowns.”
A spokesperson for Google told me that the vast majority of DMCA removals come from reporters who have a track record of valid takedowns, and that its DMCA removals process aims to find a balance between making it easy and efficient for rightsholders to report infringing content while also protecting free expression on the web.
“We actively fight fraudulent takedown attempts by using a combination of automated and human review to detect signals of abuse,” the Google spokesperson said. “We provide extensive transparency about these removals to hold requesters accountable, and sites can file counter notices if they believe a removal was made in error.”
I feel like the problem mentioned is like a drop in the ocean compared to the enshitification of Google as a whole. Google has been almost unusable even if this didn’t happen.
How do you think DDG 'skips the SEO stuff'? They don't have their own index, they are a meta search engine and the indices they rely on are subject to SEO efforts of the various pages
Google's control over the internet will harm all users as they scram further to find places where profit can be squeezed more and more until they're functionally bankrupt.
not just internet, they are going to prevent android users from installing any programs they dont approve first. So most likely goodbye f-droid and any opensource program
Yeah but really does that even matter when the top results are just ads anyway? The problem is advertising has taken over search engines and now AI makes it even less likely people "searching" for things will even bother to click off of the search website.
DMCA takedown abuse isn't anything new, this article seems like it was just due to 404 media having to deal with it, onlyfans is tangentially related and clearly just used in the headline for clickbait purposes... I really expected better of 404 media, The issue is a valid and increasingly worse one, it shouldnt need a clickbait headline. "DMCA Automation is ruining the internet" or something to that effect would have been a lot better.
This whole thing is also a scam on content creators, people arent pirating content by searching for it on google, they're finding out about websites by talking to people on discord (which itself is not searchable of course) and other such services. Anyone paying for these kind of takedown services is getting taken for a ride.
DMCA takedown abuse isn’t anything new, this article seems like it was just due to 404 media having to deal with it, onlyfans is tangentially related and clearly just used in the headline for clickbait purposes… I really expected better of 404 media, The issue is a valid and increasingly worse one, it shouldnt need a clickbait headline. “DMCA Automation is ruining the internet” or something to that effect would have been a lot better.
That's true, but if the important thing is to draw attention to this issue, this is a good way of doing it even if it's a creative interpretation of the truth.
Enhanced capabilities and availability of tools make a difference. If a company gets the "brilliant" idea to "use AI" to file DMCA requests, encouraged by recent hype of AI and proliferation of many AI tools to make it easy to deploy, then it suddenly becomes a problem, hence why this article exists right now.
But these tools were available for years at least. How do you think Youtube strikes down videos automatically by it's own since like 2012.
The issue is that again and again simpletons are yelling at the hammer instead of the guy that's smashing everything with it. This is so tiring, it makes all of us look so fucking stupid.
It's possible to complain about both because the improved hammer makes the guy smashing everything with it an even bigger problem. Either way it brings attention to the issue, but I have no confidence in politicians making a change for the better at this point, they'll probably just make it even worse.
“We don't really review it [the list] because we are an agent for them,” Ananad said. “For the requests that we send out ourselves, usually they get reviewed, but sometimes they [clients] do a search by themselves, and they come across some content and they flag it and they're like, ‘We want this taken down.’ We don't review that because that is something that they want taken down. I'm not particularly sure about this case, but that is what happens. What we planned on doing was also reviewing these but it's usually not very fruitful, because the user is very sure they want that claim. And even if we say, ‘Hey, we don't think you should do that,’ they're like, ‘We want to do it. Just do it because I'm paying you for this.’ And if we just say, do it yourself, that kind of takes away the business from us. So that is basically how it works.”
They're a cog in a broken machine that needs grease like every other one. It's all just business speak for "why would we want to say something that would make the customer not pay us?"
The DMCA is what you get when you get greedy media and Internet companies to write legislation for lawmakers that have no idea what any of that means, while in the background the people have not had a chance to use any of it. It should have come with an expiration date 10 years from signing and should have been redone now that we are actually using the stuff.
That is the DMCA working exactly as intended. Giving companies the ability to leverage their own wealth and resources to abuse and suppress competition was always the DMCA’s goal.
Copyright in general is about suppressing and abusing competition, there's a little bit of difference now that the old Victorian-style copyright laws lasted as long as the author, more or less, and every legal action was taken through a court, not like these letters of happiness.
It's funny how we seem similar to the pre-WWI mood of "everything has been invented, abolish patents", I wonder if the "pre-WWI" part is too going to rhyme. Hope that not, of course, but most of the innovation seems to be in direct or indirect warfare (all of big tech is honestly that). And there's one nation whose elites seem to make weird destructive moves. And which is on the down trajectory in its GDP relative to the world for the last 50 years. And which has the world's biggest military spending.
After all, humans need a reminder that for the plethora of technologies that seem like a favorable to them weapon unseen before, there are also similarly many technologies that may be unfavorable to them weapons unseen before.
Nazi Germany used radio and encryption and maneuverability and wonderful air force to achieve successes, then the other sides used radars and computers and mass modular production and MLRS'es.
Perhaps the current rotting of copyright and patent system is because the elites think they don't need more natural peaceful development. Global bloodletting usually heals that kind of ideas. Some things can only be learned on your own experience.
Copyright is a surviving instance of the old system of royal warrants: monopolies granted by a monarch, usually to cronies, occasionally as a reward for some kind of good work (scientific discovery, work of art, etc).
It's a system that's full of opportunities for corruption and bureaucratic oppression, and should either be massively scaled back, or dumped entirely. It does far more harm than good.
I agree, unfortunately things only keep existing when there's balance between their sides in power.
Such balance is - those benefiting from copyright have a lot to offer and threaten to those making copyright, and the other way around.
It's all military logic now. 50 years ago it could have been solved by a popular movement, now any movement really threatening copyright will have its figures murdered left and right.
Yup. People talking about DMCA reform, or adding penalties for false takedown requests… In reality, this is the DMCA working exactly as intended. It’s like discussing police reform, but the police are functioning exactly how the ruling class want them to.
Just allow companies to charge a small fee to process a DMCA takedown, and establish a daily compensation rate based on view counts for the uploader (cost payable by the company issuing the takedown - not the entity they represent). Suddenly you only issue a takedown for clear infringement, with the cost paid by the uploader only when clear proof is given that it is a DMCA infringement. If there is a long delay, the uploader gets more compensation, whereas the uploader is only liable for the initial takedown fee.
Can't speak to the why but in practice, nobody ever gets punished for abusing DMCA takedowns even with they use bots to spam fraudulent claims, and it's a widespread practice.
Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's not scummy.
And as for people getting shit for free, I support a maximalist position on right of first sale: sharing what you own should be legal in all cases. If that inconveniences some mass aggregator of content, tough shit: the ease of sharing gives the lie to the notion that the aggregator adds any value, instead, they're just rent-seeking parasites.
How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone
The internet is becoming harder to use because of unintended consequences in the battle between adult content creators who are trying to protect their livelihoods and the people who pirate their content.
Porn piracy, like all forms of content piracy, has existed for as long as the internet. But as more individual creators who make their living on services like OnlyFans, many of them have hired companies to send Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices against companies that steal their content. As some of those services turn to automation in order to handle the workload, completely unrelated content is getting flagged as violating their copyrights and is being deindexed from Google search. The process exposes bigger problems with how copyright violations are handled on the internet, with automated systems filing takedown requests that are reviewed by other automated systems, leading to unintended consequences.
These errors show another way in which automation without human review is making the internet as we know it increasingly unusable. They also highlight the untenable piracy problem for adult content creators, who have little recourse to stop their paid content from being redistributed all over the internet.
I first noticed how bad some of these DMCA takedown requests are because one of them targeted 404 Media. I was searching Google for an article Sam wrote about Instagram’s AI therapists. I Googled “AI therapists 404 Media,” and was surprised it didn’t pop up because I knew we had covered the subject. Then I saw a note from Google at the bottom of the page noting Google had removed some search results “In response to multiple complaints we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.”
The notice linked to the Lumen Database, which keeps a record of DMCA complaints, who filed them, and for what. According to the Lumen Database, the complaint was filed by a company called Takedowns AI on behalf of content creator Marie Temara. Takedowns AI is one of many companies that help content creators, especially adult content creators, to scan the internet for images and videos they posted behind paywalls on platforms like OnlyFans and posted elsewhere for free. These companies also file DMCA takedown requests and navigate the copyright systems of big platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit. One of the most effective ways of preventing people from finding this pirated content is sending DMCA takedown requests to Google asking the search engine to delist results to sites that share it. As its name implies, Takedowns AI heavily relies on automation to do this work.
The complaint that impacted 404 Media included a list of 68 links to different websites that allegedly violated Temara’s copyright on content she posted to Instagram, OnlyFans, and other platforms. This was the allegedly offending link on 404 Media, which is a collage Sam made for her AI Facebook therapists story.
The collage includes Meta's AI-generated profile pictures of three of these AI therapists. The story itself has nothing to do with Temara, and the profile pictures look nothing like her. In fact, it would be hard for anyone to claim copyright for that image because in 2023 a U.S. court ruled that AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted.
I went through every other link in the same complaint and couldn’t find even one link that looked like it violated Temara’s copyrights. There were images from Grand Theft Auto V, famous baseball players, robots, stock images of people at theme parks, and movie posters, none of which looked remotely similar to Temara. In addition to 404 Media’s article about AI therapists, some of the pages that Google removed from search results due to this complaint included tech site wccftech.com, horror movie site bloody-disgusting.com, and rugby and wrestling sites.
These links are also just part of one complaint out of hundreds that Takedowns AI files every day. I looked through dozens of complaints to Google filed by Takedowns AI that were archived by the Lumen Database. The vast majority of them appear to be legitimate, but I did find other egregious mistakes. One of the worst mistakes I saw was a takedown request filed on behalf of a creator who goes by “honeyybee” against an article about actual honey bees on the University of Missouri’s website. The takedown request clearly targeted the article and caused Google to remove it from search results just because it was about a subject with a similar name to that of Takedown AI’s client.
Temara and honeyybee did not respond to a request for comment.
Takedowns AI CEO Kunal Anand told me that the company has filed 12 million takedowns requests to Google since 2022. He said that Takedowns AI uses facial recognition, keyword searches, and human reviewers to find and take down copyrighted content, and said he was overall confident in the company’s accuracy. Anand told me that sometimes his clients use Google Search’s API to see what results come up when they search for themselves, then ask Takedowns AI to remove everything on that list as is, which is what he thinks might have happened with Temara and honeyybee.
“We don't really review it [the list] because we are an agent for them,” Ananad said. “For the requests that we send out ourselves, usually they get reviewed, but sometimes they [clients] do a search by themselves, and they come across some content and they flag it and they're like, ‘We want this taken down.’ We don't review that because that is something that they want taken down. I'm not particularly sure about this case, but that is what happens. What we planned on doing was also reviewing these but it's usually not very fruitful, because the user is very sure they want that claim. And even if we say, ‘Hey, we don't think you should do that,’ they're like, ‘We want to do it. Just do it because I'm paying you for this.’ And if we just say, do it yourself, that kind of takes away the business from us. So that is basically how it works.”
Yvette van Bekkum, the CEO of Cam Model Protection, a company that’s offering the same services as Takedowns AI but that has been in business since 2014, told me that her company does not process requests like Anand described for clients. Cam Model Protection also uses AI, reverse image searches, and keyword searches to find infringing material, but it has systems in place to prevent false positives, Bekkum told me. These include a database of “whitelisted” content that it shouldn’t file takedown requests against, and human verification that each link the company sends to Google actually points to infringing content.
“Just a news article is not a copyright infringement,” Bekkum told me. “If there is no content being used or only a name being named, I don't need to explain to you that it's not in violation. Everybody can make a mistake, of course, but if you just randomly gather [links] and then report it, if it's not grounded on an infringement, you should not report it, of course.”
Bekkum and Ananad both said they understand why creators don’t want to click on every link that might be infringing on their copyright. It’s not only too much work—that’s why companies like Cam Model Protection exist in the first place—it also requires sifting through a sea of pornography they don’t want to see.
“This process is so time consuming,” Bekkum said. “And they do not want to focus on all that negative energy in Googling their name and seeing pages and pages full of links leading to illegal content.”
Elaina St. James, an adult content creator, told me she used a copyright takedown service and that it was most helpful when she flagged offending sites herself. St. James said she used the service to take down pirated content as well as catfishing accounts using her images, a problem 404 Media previously talked to her about. Overall, St. James said these services are useful but imperfect.
“I think they [DMCA takedown request companies] should stop overpromising,” she told me in an email. “There are some platforms—TikTok in particular—that do not comply. Tube sites in foreign countries also rarely comply.”
Automation of DMCA takedown requests has existed for years and has always resulted in some errors. Similar problems have also plagued YouTube’s automated Content ID system for years. More sites are likely to get caught in the crossfire as more content creators strike out on their own and turn to these services in an attempt to protect their income.
It’s an issue at the intersection of several critical problems with the modern internet: Google’s search monopoly, rampant porn piracy, a DMCA takedown process vulnerable to errors and abuse, and now the automation of all of the above in order to operate at scale. No one I talked to for this story thought there was an easy solution to this problem.
“It's all science fiction, but in the dumbest possible way,” Meredith Rose, a senior policy counsel with Public Knowledge who focuses on copyright, DMCA, and intellectual property reform, told me. “At the end of the day, the DMCA takedown provisions are a way to get speech off the internet. That's a very powerful tool. Even if you're not outright malicious, if somebody says something nasty about you and you want to keep your name out of their mouth, the DMCA kind of lets you do it without anybody checking your work. And so it is this really interesting case study in when you build these tools that give the power to anybody, even people who might not be who they say they are in these applications to get stuff taken down. Abuse happens. Sometimes it happens at scale. It happens for all different kinds of reasons. Sometimes it's just malice, sometimes it's incompetence, sometimes it's buggy automation [...] I feel like with AI, we're going to see a lot more of this.”
Anand said he believes the responsibility is with creators.
“The best way to solve that is to educate the creators more that this is not their content,” he told me. “A lot of creators are very scared, and what they want is everything about them taken down from everywhere. And then they start getting more aggressive with their takedowns.”
A spokesperson for Google told me that the vast majority of DMCA removals come from reporters who have a track record of valid takedowns, and that its DMCA removals process aims to find a balance between making it easy and efficient for rightsholders to report infringing content while also protecting free expression on the web.
“We actively fight fraudulent takedown attempts by using a combination of automated and human review to detect signals of abuse,” the Google spokesperson said. “We provide extensive transparency about these removals to hold requesters accountable, and sites can file counter notices if they believe a removal was made in error.”
Hey, bit of a crazy idea , but what if we accelerated the destruction of the internet, destroyed it from within before those trying to capture it were ready to take over ?
Yes. An AI alternative to LOIC is desperately needed, for every humanist with a computer to run and to attack the enemy with streams and streams of textual and visual garbage.
I mean like 89% of the shit on Reddit is some OF model advertising.
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Copyright, with a reasonable term (say, 14 years) is potentially useful in preserving author's rights to profit from their own works. Patent laws should be applied far more strictly with respect to prior art and what constitutes a significant innovation, and should never be applied to algorithms. "Same as X, but ON THE INTERNET!" patents should be rejected in every case.
It's monopolistic corporations and incompetent governments that are runing the Internet for everyone. OF is a pox, but compared to those larger factors, OF piracy is nearly irrelevant. It might even be a positive if it damages OF.
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"In only a decade, power draw tripled. And experts say this trend is only accelerating: data center demand could double or even triple by 2028. Under these projections, data centers could consume up to 325–580 TWh by 2028 – a rise so dramatic it may soon strain the entire grid. To grasp the scale: one analysis finds AI alone might require 300 TWh per year by 2028, enough electricity for 28 million U.S. households."
A few more stories like this and I will be buying batteries so I can cut loose from the grid. As it is, on an annual basis, my PV is a net supplier to my local power company. Nonetheless, I suffer frequent increases in my electric bill simply because I have a connection to grid. None of the benefits of Grid come to me and I owe nothing to the giant corporations who do benefit.
I National Teams No-Gi Adult e Kids parteciperanno, spesati da BJJ ITALIA, agli Europei No-Gi IBJJF.Il National Team Adult No-Gi, che parteciperà all’Europeo No-Gi Adult a Roma dal 29 ottobre al 2 novembre, sarà composto dai seguenti Atleti, primi classif
I National Teams No-Gi Adult e Kids parteciperanno, spesati da BJJ ITALIA, agli Europei No-Gi IBJJF. Il National Team Adult No-Gi, che parteciperà all’Europeo No-Gi Adult a Roma dal 29 ottobre al 2 novembre, sarà composto dai seguenti Atleti, primi classificati nei Ranking ( Ranking lists – Smoothcomp ): NERE: Alessandro Ardini (Luta Livre Italia) e Francesco Bartolotta (Luta Livre Italia). MARRONI: Matteo Xavier Pandolfi (Gracie Barra) e Raluca Bianca Rosca (Luta Livre Italia/Vanguard Martial Arts). VIOLA: Leonardo La Francesca (Flow) e Antonella Bianchi (Jiu Jitsu Magenta). BLU: Damiano Grillo (Aeterna jiu jitsu) e Silvia Miglionico (Asd Wcra). DTN: Andrea Lavaggi. Il National Team Kids No-Gi, che parteciperà all’Europeo No-Gi Kids a Dublino il 9 novembre, sarà composto dai seguenti Atleti, primi classificati del Ranking ( NO-GI – Ranking Kids – Cinture Colorate – Smoothcomp ):
Priscilla Cardano (Rilion Gracie Novara)
Matteo Montinaro (Matside jiu jitsu)
Lorenzo Bugni (Greca Team)
Dario Formento (Carlson Gracie Alessandria)
Julia Corvino (MMA Academy Frosinone)
Giuseppe Girone (Wcra)
Sophia Luca (Athlon Savona)
Rachele Casagrande (Rilion Gracie Novara)
DTN: Luca Cardano.
Vincono la divisa del National Team:
Giovanni Basano Neto (Waza)
Francesco De Maio (Luta Livre Italia)
Melissa Martone (Rilion Gracie Novara)
Maria Berruti (Waza)
Un ringraziamento particolare a ERWIN che fornirà il materiale ai nostri atleti. Alle prossime gare nazionali – https://bjjitalia.it/calendario-gare/ -, verranno selezionati i National Teams ADULT e KIDS (Gi e No-Gi), che parteciperanno, spesati da BJJ ITALIA, agli Europei IBJJF. BJJ ITALIA è una organizzazione non profit che reinveste interamente i propri utili nello sport ed è l’unica organizzazione italiana che spesa Rappresentative Nazionali complete che partecipano alle gare internazionali dell’IBJJF.
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