More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 5)

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

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.
Developments

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

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

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.
Future Society

“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

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."
NASA

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.
Future Society

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.
OpenAI

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.
OpenAI

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk says that Christianity is at risk of perishing. Some X users are wondering why he's wearing Satanic armor in his profile picture.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Mocked for Claiming Christianity Is Under Attack While Wearing Baphomet Armor With Upside Down Crosses in His Profile Pic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a major — though unsurprising — U-turn, Meta-formerly-Facebook has done away with its confusing celebrity AI clones.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Is Euthanizing All Its Celebrity AI Clones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's new pitch for generative AI, as seen in its new Olympic ad: don't teach your kids how to build something from a blank page.
Google

Google’s Latest Pitch for AI Is So Sad It Sounds Like a Spoof

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronauts on the International Space Station sent well wishes to the folks competing at the 2024 Olympics — with a zero-G take on the Games.
Off-World

Astronauts Hold Their Own Olympics on Board Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A scammer attempting to trick Ferrari executives using deepfake tech was thwarted by a stalwart safety measure: the security question.
Artificial Intelligence

Ferrari Exec Suspects Call From CEO Is Deepfaked, Asks Question Only He Would Know the Answer To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI entered the AI search market this week with a prototype of a search tool called SearchGPT. There's an error in its demo.
OpenAI

OpenAI Reveals AI-Powered Search Engine, Which Instantly Makes Factual Mistake in Demo

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What happens when you train an AI model with AI-generated content? Absolute chaos, according to a new study.
Artificial Intelligence

When AI Is Trained With AI-Generated Data, It Starts Spouting Gibberish

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tony Robbins invested $200 million into breakthrough clean energy tech. Per the Wall Street Journal, proof that it works remains elusive.
Energy

Tony Robbins May Have Been Conned by a Mad Scientist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Spanish court has sentenced 15 teenagers to one year of probation for using AI to create fake nude images of female classmates.
Artificial Intelligence

Schoolchildren Sentenced for AI-Generating Nudes of Their Classmates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The venerable has a new AI chatbot, designed to answer climate questions. Why won't it answer prompts about AI's growing climate footprint?
Artificial Intelligence

Washington Post Launches AI to Answer Climate Questions, But It Won’t Say Whether AI Is Bad for the Climate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNN is firing 100 employees, or three percent of its overall work force. It says it's pivoting harder to video — and pushing "into AI."
Artificial Intelligence

CNN Firing 100 Employees Amid “Strategic Push Into AI”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines
Artificial Intelligence

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nike is sunsetting the app that allows owners of its to-be-discontinued Adapt sneakers to control their self-lacing, light-up shoes.
Future Society

Nike Is Killing the App That Controls Its App-Controlled Self-Lacing Sneakers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets by way of AI-powered, facial recognition-embedded vending machines.
Facial recognition

In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We found the one piece of AI-generated Facebook sludge to rule them all — and it has one giant boot and a birthday wish.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Unlocked a Level of Facebook Pandering Previously Unknown to Science

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In its latest environmental impact report, Google admitted that its 2023 emissions saw a 13 percent year-over-year increase. The culprit? AI.
Google

Google Is Failing to Meet Important Climate Targets so Its AI Can Tell You to Put Glue on Pizza

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has some thoughts about fair use — and according to him, just about anything online is fair for him to use!
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO of AI Says It’s Fine to Steal Anything on the Open Web

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We asked OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, which is designed to browse the web, about a current event — and it sent us directly to spam-ridden AI sludge.
OpenAI

ChatGPT-4o Is Sending Users to a Scammy Website That Floods Your Screen With Fake Virus Warnings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's erosion continues with AI-generated images of cops lugging huge Bibles through floodwaters, because why not.
Meta

Facebook Lunatics Are Making AI-Generated Pictures of Cops Carrying Huge Bibles Through Floods Go Viral

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The internet has been using AI to turn famous memes into videos — and a fair share of the results are nothing short of nightmare fuel.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Using AI to Turn Memes Into Videos and It’s Low Key Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Perplexity AI search tool is citing low-quality and sometimes incorrect AI-generated spam from sketchy blogs and LinkedIn posts.
Artificial Intelligence

Perplexity Is Already “Citing” Error-Filled AI-Generated Spam

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Will delaying menopause — which is linked to countless other health problems, including cardiac failure — keep women healthier for longer?
Studies

White House Exploring Whether Delaying Menopause Could Keep Women Healthier

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The premier of a movie featuring an entirely AI-generated script was canceled last week due to public backlash, reports say.
Artificial Intelligence

Premiere of Movie With AI-Generated Script Canceled Amid Outrage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI confirmed that it has removed VIC, the AI chatbot running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, from public view.
OpenAI

OpenAI Imprisons AI That Was Running for Mayor in Wyoming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Been reading any good Russian propaganda lately? According to the misinformation watchdog NewsGuard, top AI chatbots certainly have.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Chatbots are Parroting Russian Propaganda, Report Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Smile! Crinkle your nose! Waggle your eyebrows! According to this team of researchers, people might just find you more likeable.
Studies

There’s an Easy Thing You Can Do With Your Face That’ll Make People Like You More

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google Images is returning disturbing AI-generated images of celebrity women as children in suggestive or even explicit depictions.
Google

Google Images Showing AI-Generated Images of Children in Bikinis, Referencing Epstein’s Island

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Unfortunately for a dozen or so now-former Wells Fargo employees, the future of work is not mouse jiggling devices.
Future Society

Major Bank Fires Employees for Pretending to Work via “Simulation of Keyboard Activity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI just named former NSA director Paul Nakasone to its board. Infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, for one, had some thoughts.
OpenAI

Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A potent carcinogen called ethylene oxide is polluting the air in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" at much higher levels than the EPA estimated.
Pollution

The EPA Grossly Underestimated How Many Carcinogens are Polluting This Louisiana Region’s Air, Study Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A viral TikTok shows a frustrated Tesla owner trying to figure out what to do when his charging cable gets stuck in his Cybertruck.
Advanced Transport

Man Annoyed When Charging Cable Gets Stuck in Cybertruck

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA accidentally broadcasted the audio of an emergency simulation over a routine ISS livestream, causing alarm among viewers.
NASA

NASA Apologizes for Broadcasting Emergency on Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As of this week, Google's AI was still telling people to put glue on pizza — and in the process, it misrepresented a journalist's work.
Google

Google Helpless to Stop Its AI From Recommending Glue on Pizza

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Wyoming man wants an AI named VIC to be on Cheyenne's mayoral ballot. Authorities in the state are questioning the AI's legality.
Artificial Intelligence

Authorities Investigating AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stable Diffusion 3 is here — and if you want to generate an image of a person, maybe expect an output resembling human appendage soup.
Artificial Intelligence

The New Stable Diffusion Is Producing Horrific Mangled Human Bodies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Human Rights Watch report reveals that the popular LAOIN-5B image-text dataset includes traceable, web-scraped images of real kids.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Being Trained on Images of Real Kids Without Consent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Musk didn't say why, but it's hard to see why he wouldn't.
OpenAI

Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI After It Releases Emails Showing He Was Totally on Board With What He’s Now Criticizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, MAGA supporters are getting hospitalized by global warming-induced heat at rallies.
Climate Change

Fans of Donald Trump, Who Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax, Hospitalized by Heat at Trump Rallies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Marjorie Taylor Greene's speech at Trump's Vegas rally included some soundbite-packed word salad about gas prices for... electric vehicles?
Advanced Transport

Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked for Saying the Gas Prices for Electric Cars Are Too High

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new paper finds that advanced AI language models are terrible at a specificproblem, calling current industry benchmarks into question.
Artificial Intelligence

This Simple Logic Question Stumps Even the Most Advanced AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study from Mayo Clinic shows that for folks with arrhythmia, sudden cardiac arrest and energy drinks often go hand-in-hand.
Energy

Study Finds That Cardiac Arrest Frequently Occurs After Consuming Energy Drink

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Reuters report says that an AI tool used by the app NewsBreak has been publishing entirely made-up news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Popular News App Caught Publishing Completely Untrue AI Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New data from NOAA and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide reached an all-time high in May.
Pollution

Carbon Pollution in Atmosphere Hits All Time Record

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Irish man sued Microsoft after MSN circulated an AI article falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct, per a New York Times investigation.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-generated image of a young disabled veteran went viral on Facebook. A lot of folks — particularly older men — think she's the real deal.
Meta

Facebook Page Uses AI-Generated Image of Disabled Veteran to Farm Engagement

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A news network is attributing AI-spun articles to fake authors with racially diverse names. Its publisher claims the names were unintentional.
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A tiny cohort of "supersharers" spread the majority of fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election. They were mostly older white women.
Future Society

Scientists Find That a Tiny Proportion of People Spread Almost All the Fake News, and They Turn Out to Be Exactly Who You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A coalition of AI workers are pushing for a "Right to Warn" the public about AI safety concerns, citing concerns over the employee silencing.
OpenAI

OpenAI Insiders Say They’re Being Silenced About Danger

By Maggie Harrison Dupré