The 404 Media Podcast
212 episodes — Page 1 of 5
Your AI Companion Doesn’t Love You with Bridget Todd
Aug 24, 202647 min
Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
Aug 19, 202653 min
The Future of Deepfakes and the Decline of Reality with Hany Farid
Aug 17, 202646 min
Mark Zuckerberg’s 'Superintelligent' AI Future That No One Wants
Aug 12, 202648 min
How to Surveil the Police (with William Gude)
Aug 10, 202653 min
This Man Might Go to Prison for Wiping His Phone
Aug 5, 202650 min
Former Flock Employee Speaks Out: Says He Was ‘Lied To’
Aug 3, 202650 min
Flock Came to My Town. Here’s What I Did
Jul 29, 202651 min
This Man Bought Phone Location Data from Around the World
Jul 27, 202641 min
Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars
Jul 22, 202646 min
404 Media Live: How AI Is Destroying the Internet
Jul 20, 20261h 1m
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
Jul 15, 202645 min
Liberation, Eroticism, and Sex in Public (with Angela Jones)
Jul 13, 202653 min
How Influencers Fake Being Rich
Jul 8, 202650 min
Is the Best Game of the Year a Failure?
Jul 6, 20261h 40m
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here
Jul 1, 202642 min
How Brands Use Reddit to Poison AI Search
Jun 29, 202641 min
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II
Jun 24, 202641 min
Stopping Tech Company Censorship (with Jake Hanrahan)
Jun 22, 202644 min
The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones
Jun 17, 202649 min
Meet Me at the Opsec Rave (with Imani Thompson)
Jun 15, 202653 min
Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is
Jun 10, 202635 min
It’s So Not Over for Hollywood (with Devindra Hardawar)
Jun 8, 20261h 1m
Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked
Jun 3, 202639 min
A Repairable, No-Tech Tractor
May 30, 202638 min
How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School
May 27, 202650 min
Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones
May 25, 202649 min
Boo-sters
May 20, 202645 min
The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris
May 18, 202638 min
The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams
May 13, 20261h 4m
How the World Became a Casino (With Natasha Schüll)
May 11, 202649 min
Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch
May 6, 202658 min
The New Luddites: Why People Are Destroying Surveillance and AI Infrastructure
May 4, 202652 min
How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory
Apr 29, 202647 min
Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
Apr 27, 202651 min
How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird
Apr 22, 202658 min
Why Journalists Are Leaving Big Media (with Maddy Myers)
Apr 20, 202655 min
How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages
Apr 16, 202644 min
How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)
Apr 13, 20261h 4m
Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE
Apr 8, 202650 min
The Lawyer Fighting Government Surveillance for 30 Years (With EFF's Cindy Cohn)
Apr 6, 202654 min
Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
Apr 1, 202652 min
The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones
Mar 30, 202643 min
The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts
Mar 25, 202645 min
The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"
Mar 23, 202649 min
The Disappearing DOGE Depositions
Mar 18, 202647 min
Google Street View's Unmappable City
Mar 16, 202617 min
How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Mar 11, 202644 min
Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem
Mar 9, 202648 min
The Depravity Economy
Mar 4, 202657 min