More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 5)

The battle over remote work continues — and it looks like CEOs are overwhelmingly willing to take extreme measures to get folks back to the office.

Vast Majority of CEOs Ready to Make Remote Workers’ Lives As Miserable As Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI might be worsening carbon emissions, but at least we have this fake video of Mark Zuckerberg leg-pressing chicken nuggets, we guess.

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No, Donald Trump didn't wade through Hurricane Helene-caused flooding in blue jeans. That "photo" you saw was AI.

Artificial Intelligence

No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Elon Musk thinks that the ancient and famously difficult to master game of chess is dumb. Why? Because space lasers. Obviously.

Elon Musk Posts Bananas Rant About How Chess Is Stupid Because It Doesn’t Have Space Lasers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pro-Trump influencers including close Trump ally Laura Loomer were fooled by an AI-generated image of an alleged victim of Hurricane Helene.

Artificial Intelligence

Gullible Trump Cronies Losing Their Minds Over Fake AI Slop on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren’t Allowed to Back Its Rivals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.

Terrifying Smart Glasses Hack Can Pull Up Personal Info of Nearby Strangers in Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday — and we could be in for another powerful geomagnetic storm later this week.

A Colossal Solar Flare Just Triggered a Radio Blackout on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash that it's failing to make up for in revenue, according to investor documents.

OpenAI Is Putting Profits First, Yet It’s Bleeding an Astronomical Amount of Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop posters are already using fake images of alleged Hurricane Helene devastation to capitalize on the still-unfolding natural disaster.

Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A tattoo parlor put bizarre AI-generated advertisements all over Brooklyn. We decided to get to the bottom of them.

Artificial Intelligence

What’s Up With Those Sloppy AI-Generated Tattoo Posters in New York City?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at 2024's Connect conference in a shirt that made a self-reference to Roman Emporer Julius Caeser.

You Are Not Prepared for How Mark Zuckerberg Is Dressing Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk posted — and later deleted — an unhinged post wondering why no one has tried to murder Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Elon Musk Deletes Deranged Post About Assassinating Kamala Harris

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A local newspaper in Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake news anchors. Unsurprisingly, they're freaky.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Alarmed When Newspaper Replaces Humans With Glitchy AI Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

So-called "stablecoins" are far from stable. But Donald Trump's sons have a new stablecoin-forward crypto venture — which Trump is backing.

Trump’s New Crypto Project Is a Type Linked to Organized Crime and Terrorism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adam "WeWork Guy" Neumann's crypto company has been discreetly refunding investors after years of failing to do anything said it would do.

You’ll Be Shocked to Hear That the WeWork Guy’s Crypto Startup Is Shriveling Up and Dying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk built a massive, fume-emitting data center for xAI in South Memphis. Locals reportedly had little to no input.

Elon Musk’s Huge AI Supercomputer Visibly Spewing Fumes Into Surrounding Community

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Should you smear human feces on a balloon to potty train your kid? According to Google Search's AI Overview, the answer is yes.

Google’s Search AI Suggests Smearing Fecal Matter on Balloon to Potty Train Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops in New Mexico used an AI-generated image of fake teenage girl to attract pedophiles, a lawsuit filed by the state shows.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Use AI-Generated 14-Year-Old Girl to Lure Sex Criminals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The GOP's House Judiciary Committee posted used AI to further debunked and unconfirmed social media rumors about Haitian immigrants and pets.

Artificial Intelligence

Desperate Republicans Using AI to Generate Fake Photos of Donald Trump Saving Kittens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An astrophysicist's TikTok video about gas in galaxy clusters went viral – but because kids were looking for a different kind of galaxy gas.

Astrophysicist Surprised to Learn Why Her TikTok on “Galaxy Gas” Was Suddenly Blowing Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

Artificial Intelligence

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Louisiana abortion law could cause doctors to take misopristol, used to treat life-threatening postpartum hemorrhaging, off emergency carts.

RX and Medicine

Deranged Anti-Abortion Law Will Keep Hospitals From Saving Dying Women, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk has repeatedly engaged with media flowing from a multimillion-dollar Russian propaganda scheme.

Elon Musk Repeatedly Promoted “Conservative” Outlet That Was Secretly Being Funded by Moscow, According to DOJ Indictment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dondald Trump's campaign strongly appears to have quietly used an AI-generated image in a social media-shared political advertisement.

Artificial Intelligence

If You Zoom Into This “Photo” Trump Posted, You’ll Find Something Very Strange

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of Kamala Harris designed to invoke Joseph Stalin — but she actually looked much more like Mario.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Kamala Harris as Joseph Stalin, But Instead It Just Looks Like Mario

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A slew of major news publishers and top social media websites are blocking Apple from scraping their websites for AI training purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

No One Wants Apple To Scrape Their Websites for AI Training

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tom Hanks is warning his fans not to fall for fraudulent deepfakes that depict him hawking "miracle cures" and other products.

Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Warns That Deepfake Scams Are Stealing His Face

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops across the US are moving to embrace AI-generated police reports. Experts, unsurprisingly, are sounding the alarm.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Say Hallucinating AIs Are Ready to Write Police Reports That Could Send People to Prison

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a forthcoming coffee table book, former president Donald Trump cites conspiracy theories while threatening to jail Mark Zuckerberg.

Trump Threatens to Imprison Mark Zuckerberg

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Texas handyman strapped a working laundry dryer to the back of his Cybertruck and drove it around. Obviously, we had some questions.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted With Built-In Laundry Machine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

RFK Jr. wants a job in Trump's possible next administration — and likely a health-focused one. Let's revisit his history with animals?

The Guy Who Wants to Be Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Keeps Doing Weird Stuff With Animals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated content flooding the web. That could be a problem for AI models, which are widely trained via web-scraped data.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Project 2025's chaotic and contradictory AI policy is rooted in bizarre isolationism, slashing already-nonexistent regulations, and spying.

Artificial Intelligence

Project 2025’s AI Policies Are a Baffling Stew of Grievance and Contradictions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk amplified a plagiarized article bylined by a fake writer. The original source? An alt-right website riddled with conspiracies.

Elon Musk Tweets Plagiarized Article Bylined by Fake Writer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This AI company says its helping lower advertising costs for underfunded progressive campaigns. Its product feels anything but progressive.

Artificial Intelligence

Democratic Startup Proposes Flooding the Web With AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research shows that AI models need to be completely retrained to learn new concepts — which is an expensive problem for AI companies.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Humongous Problem With AI Models: They Need to Be Entirely Rebuilt Every Time They’re Updated

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A rocket exploded yesterday during a test in the UK's Shetland islands, resulting in a massive fireball that engulfed the entire launchpad.

Rocket Explodes in Epic Fireball During Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The iPad-focused design app Procreate is declining to incorporate generative AI into its platform — and its CEO isn't mincing words.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech CEO Admits That He “Really F*cking Hates” Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Conspiracy theorist and brain worm haver Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that he gets fooled by fake AI content "all the time." We believe him!

Artificial Intelligence

RFK Jr. Says He Constantly Gets Fooled by Fake AI Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Federal Trade Commission just moved to ban fake, AI-generated reviews and testimonials, including ones attributed to fake authors.

Artificial Intelligence

The US Government Just Banned Fake AI-Generated Reviews

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump posted fake images of Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing him for president. A lot of Swifties — a feared group! — are mad.

Artificial Intelligence

Swifties Erupt in Fury After Donald Trump Uses AI to Fake Taylor Swift Endorsement

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump is using AI imagery to double down on his attack line that Kamala Harris is a "communist" a week after accusing her of using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

After Falsely Accusing Kamala Harris of Using AI, Donald Trump Posts AI Slop About Her on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk Accidentally Reveals That He Completely Missed the Point of These Famous Movies

Elon Musk Accidentally Reveals That He Completely Missed the Point of These Famous Movies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.

Artificial Intelligence

This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AI companies should "steal" content first, and lawyer up to deal with the "mess" later.

Ex-Google CEO Says It’s Fine If AI Companies “Stole All the Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is walking back his questionable claim that remote work is to blame for Google's AI failures.

Former CEO Blames Working From Home for Google’s AI Struggles, Regrets It Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cybertruck owners, beware of treating your Tesla truck like a truck. You might just bend the tailgate out of shape.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Tailgates Are Deforming After Doing Regular Truck Stuff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump returned to Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter. Meanwhile, shares for Trump's media company, which owns Truth Social, crashed.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Crashes After Chaotic Return to Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The bad news: scientists have discovered two new dementia risk factors. The good news: these new risk factors are "modifiable."

Neuroscience and Brain

Two New Dementia Risk Factors Have Been Uncovered — And You Can Actually Do Something About Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former President Donald Trump wrongly accused the Harris campaign of using AI to generate fake images of large crowds of supporters.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Is So Mad About Harris’ Huge Crowds That He’s Lying That They’re AI-Generated

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk’s Daughter Just Torched Walter Isaacson, His (and Steve Jobs’s) Biographer

Elon Musk’s Daughter Just Torched Walter Isaacson, His (and Steve Jobs’s) Biographer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists at Northwestern University say they've invented a goo — yes, a goo — that might open the door to regenerating human knee cartilage.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Regenerate Knee Cartilage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One way to improve your Cybertruck? Add a pair of googly eyes, and watch the world finally embrace your choice in vehicle.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Is Much Improved by Adding Googly Eyes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Schulman, AI safety researcher and OpenAI cofounder, has departed the ChatGPT creator and joined the ranks of OpenAI rival Anthropic.

OpenAI Cofounder Quits to Join Rival Started by Other Defectors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is allowing paid-for promoted links to AI apps that expressly help users make nonconsensual deepfake nudes, 404 Media reports.

Google Caught Taking Money to Promote AI Apps That Create Nonconsensual Nudes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If the trillion-dollar AI industry in the throes of a gold rush crashes in the face of slight unpredictability, how much is it really worth?

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Bubble Is Bursting, Experts Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

#Trumpisacoward trended on Truth Social in response to Donald Trump's decision to back out of an ABC-hosted debate against Kamala Harris.

“Trump Is a Coward” Trends on Truth Social

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chip giant Nvidia has been quietly scraping astronomical amounts of YouTube video data to train its AI models, leaked docs reveal.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Caught Stealing Mind-Boggling Quantity of YouTube Videos to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly developed effective tools for marking and tracking AI-generated content. Why isn't it releasing them?

OpenAI Has Software That Detects AI Writing With 99.9 Percent Accuracy, Refuses to Release It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Head Bill Nelson this week showed admiration for VP Kamala Harris, referring to the presidential candidate as a "space aficionado."

Head of NASA Says Kamala Harris Really Gets Space

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a new volunteer emergency vehicle on the streets of South New Jersey: the first Cybertruck ambulance. Yes, you read that right.

Advanced Transport

First Cybertruck Ambulance Has One Small Problem: Nowhere to Put the Patient

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a new, chain-wearing Mark Zuckerberg in town, and you bet he's swearing onstage while being interviewed by another billionaire.

Mark Zuckerberg Goes Onstage, Gets Excited and Says Swear Word

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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