MINI TECH SCROLL: SAG-AFTRA influencer committee, OpenAI rolls back recent update + manosphere websites go offline

May 7, 2025

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The biggest tech & social media trends on the internet from May 7th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:42 SAG-AFTRA has introduced an influencer committee

6:26 OpenAI rolls back recent update

11:22 The manosphere websites going offline

Sources:

https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-national-board-overwhelmingly-approves-commercials-contracts-deal

https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag-aftra-creates-influencer-committee-creator-economy-1236202280/

https://www.sagaftra.org/contracts-industry-resources/influencer-resources/influencer-agreement-101

https://time.com/6301824/influencers-sag-strike/

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/13/the-creator-economy-is-ready-for-a-workers-movement/

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20688929/internet-creators-guild-shutting-down-hank-green-youtube-copyright-claims-monetization

https://www.fastcompany.com/91327213/sag-aftras-new-influencer-committee-aims-to-strengthen-support-for-digital-creators

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

https://www.tiktok.com/@zauey/video/7499612827959840043

https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/

https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/

https://www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-what-chatgpt-is-actually-for

https://www.theverge.com/news/658315/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4o-roll-back-glaze-update

https://www.theverge.com/openai/661303/openai-stays-nonprofit-sam-altman-employee-memo

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/notorious-image-board-4chan-hacked-and-internal-data-leaked/

https://blog.4chan.org/post/781845918774394880/still-standing

https://www.404media.co/mr-deepfakes-the-biggest-deepfake-porn-site-on-the-internet-says-its-shutting-down-for-good/

https://www.theverge.com/news/648908/4chan-hacked-down-outage-leak

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/27/4chan-is-back-online-says-its-been-starved-of-money/