More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 2)

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data
Future Society

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of Australian files repeatedly filed court documents riddled with AI hallucinations, including fake citations and made-up laws.
Artificial Intelligence

Lawyers File AI Slop in Murder Case

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI robotics firm Figure released an impressive video of its humanoid robot, Figure 02, autonomously folding laundry.
Robotics

Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Effortlessly Folding Laundry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 76-year-old New Jersey man died while attempting to meet a chatbot made and marketed by Meta, believing the AI persona was a real woman.
Meta

Man Falls in Love With an AI Chatbot, Dies After It Asks Him to Meet Up in Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI "godfather" Geoffrey Hinton wants to give AI a "maternal instinct" so it doesn't kill us. One problem: does the "maternal instinct" exist?
Artificial Intelligence

The “Godfather of AI” Has a Bizarre Plan to Save Humanity From Evil AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The legally-embattled AI startup Character.AI has abandoned its original promise of ushering forth "personalized superintelligence."
Artificial Intelligence

Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Terrifying rabbits with spiny black tentacles on their faces have been spotted in Colorado. They look hellish, but they're not dangerous.
Science & Energy

Rabbits With Horrifying Tentacles Growing Out of Their Faces Spotted in Colorado

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is working on making GPT-5 "warmer" as it resurrects "annoying" GPT-4o.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Calls His Own AI Model “Annoying” After Being Forced to Raise It From the Dead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yet another psychiatrist is sounding alarm bells about AI psychosis, arguing that chatbots can work as a "hallucinatory mirror."
Artificial Intelligence

Research Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing a Wave of AI Psychosis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-fueled mental health crises are harming individuals and families around the world. Some of those impacted are helping each other cope.
Artificial Intelligence

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study shows that over half of teens are regular users of AI companions — and some prefer them to their human friends.
Artificial Intelligence

A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of chatbots like ChatGPT — and health experts are taking notice.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists identified a heartbeat-like rhythmic pulse trapped within the Earth — and say it has profound implications for a whole continent.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research shows that lunar dust is less toxic than many Earthborne air pollutants. That said — should you snort it? Well, you could!
Moon

Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A woman whose teen son died by suicide after troubling interactions with AI chatbots is pushing back against a ten-year ban on AI regulation.
Artificial Intelligence

Mother of Teen Who Died By Suicide After Interacting with Chatbots Sends Urgent Warning About AI in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Orlando Bloom is rumored to be attending Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding as a single man — and will be hitting the events "hard."
Jeff Bezos

Orlando Bloom Planning the Worst Possible Thing at Jeff Bezos’ Wedding

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Low-quality AI slop is chewing up the internet as we know it. John Oliver makes some very good points explaining why that's not great!
Artificial Intelligence

John Oliver Aghast at How AI Slop Is Devouring the Web

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a podcast clip that's going around the internet, The Heritage Foundation grapples with what happens without AI regulation.
Artificial Intelligence

The Architects of Project 2025 Are Suddenly Very Concerned About AI Safety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez originally planned a winter wedding — but reportedly pushed it back as lawyers drafted an airtight prenup.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Wedding Was Reportedly Pushed Back Due to Prenup Issues

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new pre-print study from Stanford researchers finds that AI chatbots used for therapy routinely fail at providing safe, ethical care.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Research Finds That “Therapist” Chatbots Are Encouraging Users’ Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.
OpenAI

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"MEDVi," a sketchy online market for GLP-1 drugs, is using AI to spin up terrible ads — and, insidiously, to deepfake pictures of "patients."
Artificial Intelligence

This Sleazy GLP-1 Prescription Site Is Using Deepfaked “Before-and-After” Photos of Fake Patients, and Running Ads Showing AI-Generated Ozempic Boxes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over 100 organizations have signed a letter pushing back against a sweeping bill that would ban all AI regulation for the next ten years.
Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of Organizations Push Back Against Bill That Would Ban All AI Regulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google and Character.AI tried to dismiss a lawsuit that claims chatbots caused a 14-year-old's suicide. The case is moving forward.
Artificial Intelligence

Judge Slaps Down Attempt to Throw Out Lawsuit Claiming AI Caused a 14-Year-Old’s Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Journalists at The Chicago Sun-Times are speaking out following the paper's publishing of AI-generated misinformation.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalists at Chicago Newspaper “Deeply Disturbed” That “Disaster” AI Slop Was Printed Alongside Their Real Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Following news of former president Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis, a lot of Americans took to Google to find out what a prostate was.
Cancer

Far Too Many Americans Googled “What Is a Prostate” Following Joe Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop
Artificial Intelligence

Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Samples taken from China's Tiangong space station contained a new, mysterious microbe that doesn't exist on Earth, researchers say.
Off-World

Mysterious Bacteria Not Found on Earth Are Growing on China’s Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The paper on AI and scientific discovery has now become a black eye on MIT's reputation.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Disavowed a Viral Paper Claiming That AI Leads to More Scientific Discoveries

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.
DNA

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An investigation found that hundreds of paid subscribers to Elon Musk's X have terrorism links and many use paid X perks to push propaganda.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Doing Business With Actual Terrorists, Nonprofit Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World leaders being shown baby versions of themselves at a global summit.
Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Shown AI Baby Versions of Themselves at European Summit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CPS-1 is a rare genetic disorder, and doctors are using CRISPR to heal it in one baby.
RX and Medicine

In a World First, CRISPR Drug Tailored for One Baby Shows Life-Saving Promise

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

xAI, owned by Elon Musk, is blaming its chatbot having a meltdown on an "unauthorized modification" to Grok's code.
xAI

Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An OnlyFans model was shocked to find that a scammer had stolen her content — and used it to flood Reddit with AI deepfakes.
Artificial Intelligence

OnlyFans Model Shocked After Finding Her Pictures With AI-Swapped Faces on Reddit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A judge fined two law firms tens of thousands of dollars after lawyers submitted a brief containing sloppy AI errors.
Artificial Intelligence

Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Soundcloud, after backlash from musicians, artists, and the music-listening community, changed their policies on AI.
Artificial Intelligence

SoundCloud Backtracks on AI and Changes Policies After Artist Outrage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A video captured during the 2025 Myanmar earthquake may be a first-of-its-kind recording of a surface-level fault rupture.
Science & Energy

Extremely Rare Video Shows the Earth Being Violently Torn Apart During an Earthquake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers using CERN's Large Hadron Collider found that experiments with lead nuclei caused the element to briefly transmute into gold.
Physics

Scientists Accidentally Turned Lead Into Gold

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Chinese crypto service called Xinbi Guarantee, an online marketplace for laundering money and sex trafficking, was hiding in Colorado.
Cryptocurrency

Colorado Has a Massive Home-Grown Crypto Crime Problem

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.
Elon Musk

Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Copyright Office released a report that could be bad for powerful AI companies. The next day, the agency's head was fired.
Artificial Intelligence

The US Copyright Chief Was Fired After Raising Red Flags About AI Abuse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-crowned first American pope, is keeping the social costs of rapid AI advancement front and center.
Artificial Intelligence

The New Pope Is Deeply Skeptical of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

USA Today is publishing automated articles full of links to gambling sportsbooks, which may result in financial kickbacks for the publisher.
Artificial Intelligence

USA TODAY’s Disclaimers on Its Automated Sports Stories Are Longer Than the Actual Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The media giant Gannett is using AI to "automatically generate" content about lottery scores and tickets in local newspapers across the US.
Brain

Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk looking smug
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Plan for Americans’ Sensitive Data Has Security Experts Terrified

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta quietly restarted efforts to infuse facial recognition into its smart glasses, according to a report from The Information.
Facial recognition

Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

soundcloud AI TOS logo
Artificial Intelligence

SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cardinal Robert Prevost shocked the world, succeeding Pope Francis to become the first American Pope. Polymarket bettors were surprised, too.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Was Utterly Wrong About the New Pope

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.
Artificial Intelligence

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The website for WECB, Emerson College's student radio station, was stolen — and quickly transformed into a parasitic AI zombie site.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers from Stanford and the tech safety nonprofit Common Sense Media say children shouldn't be talking to AI companion bots.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adrian Thiessen had a vitamin-sized capsule camera trapped in his intestines for over six months. He says it saved his life.
Prosthetics and Devices

Meet the Man Who Got a High-Tech PillCam Stuck Inside His Intestines for Six Months — and Says It Saved His Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez say their trip to space was path-paving step for women — as NASA removes images of women from its walls.
NASA

Katy Perry Boasts About Ridiculous Rocket Launch While NASA Is Scrubbing History of Women in Space

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report found that some NSFW chatbot sites are oozing explicit user chats into the open web — and what they contain can be disturbing.
Artificial Intelligence

Naughty AIs Are Spilling Their Users’ Super Personal Chats Onto the Open Web

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After moving to publish misinformation-laden AI slop, G/O Media sold Quartz and fired its editorial staff. Sadly, this has been a pattern.
Artificial Intelligence

Quartz Fires All Writers After Move to AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Health data collected from senator Cory Booker's record-breaking Senate speech shows the obvious: a 25-hour filibuster is hard, actually!
Prosthetics and Devices

Cory Booker Releases Oura Ring Data From His 25-Hour Speech

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two senators sent a letter to AI companion companies, including Character.AI and Replika, demanding information about safety practices.
Artificial Intelligence

Senators Demand Safety Records from AI Chatbot Apps as Controversy Grows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study in Finland found that kids with pediatric brain injuries, mild concussions included, were significantly less likely to go to college.
Neuroscience and Brain

After a Single Concussion, Kids Are 15 Percent Less Likely to Go to College

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The embattled, kid-loved AI chatbot startup Character.AI introduced a new parental control tool. They're limited — and easy to get around.
Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI’s New Parental Controls Are Comically Easy for Kids to Bypass

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.
Google

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré