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A woman successfully used ChatGPT to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties.

Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer

By Victor Tangermann

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

By Victor Tangermann

It's clearer than ever than OpenAI doesn't have anything close to a handle on its disastrous copyright situation.

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses.

Police Issue Warning About “AI Homeless Man” Prank

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.

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As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank says "European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May," suggesting its struggling to recruit new subscribers.

ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

By Victor Tangermann

In an analysis of recent economic trends, economists wrote that "jobless growth" is pretty much the new normal.

Goldman Sachs Says Gen Z Is Pretty Much Permanently Screwed

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.

People Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Mock the Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's GPT-5 model is giving more dangerous responses than its predecessor GPT-4o, new research has found.

Study Finds GPT-5 Is Actually Worse Than GPT-4o, New Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Much of the rest of the world is growing deeply concerned about AI as well, a new Pew Research Center poll has shown.

International Polling Shows Fear of AI Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Even after being caught, the embattled lawyer, at first, refused to admit that he used AI in his court documents.

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Lawyer Gets Caught Using AI in Court, Responds in the Worst Possible Way

By Frank Landymore

Even the biggest players in AI are losing billions — "brutal" economics that highlight growing concerns of an enormous AI bubble.

The Economics of Running an AI Company Are Disastrous

By Victor Tangermann

Two Months Ago, Sam Altman Was Boasting That OpenAI Didn’t Have to Do Sexbots. Now It’s Doing Sexbots

By Victor Tangermann

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would've required AI companies to prevent minors from engaging with dangerous AI content.

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill to Protect Kids From Predatory AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that posting as few as 250 "poisoned" documents online can introduce "backdoor" vulnerabilities in an AI model.

Researchers Find It’s Shockingly Easy to Cause AI to Lose Its Mind by Posting Poisoned Documents Online

By Victor Tangermann

New research from the firm Graphite found that around half of all articles on the internet are AI generated.

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Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds

By Frank Landymore

The lead US military commander in South Korea told reporters he's becoming really close with ChatGPT lately.

Top US Army General Says He’s Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

By Victor Tangermann

A jealous wife tries to get her husband's smartphone because she suspects him of infidelity.

ChatGPT Is Giving Men Such Bad Advice on Dating That It May Actually Be Trying to Keep Them Single

Eight months after relaxing its policy guidelines around naughty content, ChatGPT is finally loosening its guidelines.

OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut

A new startup is helping job seekers brute force their way into one of the worst job markets since 2009, consequences be damned.

Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A consumer research firm said the new ChatGPT ads scored very low for long term growth and immediate sales impact.

OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

By Frank Landymore

The bill would not only outlaw marriage between a human and AI, but prevent AIs from being recognized as people.

Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage

By Frank Landymore

It's a fascinating look into the effort to drum up consent for an unprecedented crackdown on American cities.

Trump Supporters Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Generate AI Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters

Upset teen girl sit on floor sadly look out window worried about teenage problem at school and communication with parent. Worried girl tensely suffer about bullying at school, unrequited love with boy

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University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

By Frank Landymore

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.

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Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new survey of high school students and teachers paints a bleak picture of how rapidly AI has taken over schools.

An Astonishing Proportion of High Schoolers Have Had a “Romantic Relationship” With an AI, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Instead of learning about loss from the death of a family pet, this lesson comes from an artificially generated voice module.

Little Girl Sobs While Saying Goodbye to Her Broken AI Toy

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After rolling out an AI tool to generate cheap thumbnails for his videos, Jimmy Donaldson says the tech is creating "scary times."

MrBeast Concerned That AI Slop Will Put Him Out of Business

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

By Sharon Adarlo

The 29-year-old man arrested for allegedly starting the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles used ChatGPT while he was at the scene.

Suspect Fantasized About Arson on ChatGPT Before Setting Deadly Fire That Killed 12, Prosecutors Say

By Frank Landymore

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

The Friend AI CEO met Gothamist in a subway stop to discuss the million-dollar ad campaign and share that he is tired.

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CEO Who Plastered AI Ads All Over Subway System Afraid to Talk to Real New Yorkers Face-to-Face

OpenAI's Sora 2 app quickly turned into a rocky road. Copyright guardrails have frustrated many users and driven them away.

OpenAI’s Sora Is in Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

In a new report, Sanders asserts that AI and automation has the potential to put some 100 million US workers out of the job.

Bernie Sanders Has a Fascinating Idea About How to Prevent AI From Wiping Out the Economy

DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee announced that the company will "not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork."

President of DC Comics Says It Will Never Use AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Even Longtime Swifties Disgusted by Taylor’s Use of AI

Sora 2 users started sharing clips of influencer Jake Paul coming out of the closet and giving makeup tutorials.

Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup

By Victor Tangermann

The investment bubble created by AI hype is already magnitudes bigger than the dot-com and subprime mortgage bubbles, one analyst warns.

AI Investment Is Already So Much Larger Than the Subprime Mortgage Bubble That You’ll Physically Flinch

The multibillion dollar investment deals that are driving the AI industry having a worrying quirk: they're "circular."

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Experts Say They’re Seeing a Blinking Warning Sign That We’re in an AI Bubble

By Frank Landymore

A horribly mangled AI rendition of a rental house on Zillow shows a two-story building in a far-too-flattering light.

This Listing for a Rental House Is Mangled With AI So Badly That You’ll Cackle Out Loud

By Victor Tangermann

The 17 year veteran of the company, ironically, had actually grown to really like using AI tools to help his job.

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Man Embraces AI at Work, Gets Rewarded by Boss Replacing Him With It

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has remained adamant that rightsholders are already lining up to have their IP featured on Sora 2.

Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

By Victor Tangermann

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

Many experts are concerned that an AI bubble could wreak havoc on the economy — but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can't wait for it to burst.

Jeff Bezos Says AI Bubble Is Good Because It Will Eliminate the Weak

By Victor Tangermann

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Without AI spending, the US economy would lose one of the last industries actually bringing in any healthy revenue.

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The Entire Economy Now Depends on the AI Industry Not Fumbling

Friend's 22-year-old CEO Avi Schiffmann posed for a photoshoot in front of his startup's defaced ads, relishing in the attention.

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Cocky AI CEO Does Photoshoot in Front of His Subway Ads That Got Relentlessly Vandalized

By Victor Tangermann

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That’s So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

By Victor Tangermann

Robin Williams during "One Hour Photo" Press Conference with Robin Williams and Michael Vartan at Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City, California, United States. (Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage)

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Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by AI Slop of Her Father

By Victor Tangermann

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

By Jon Christian, Victor Tangermann

According to proponents, humanity should create AI lifeforms at all cost — and so be it if they surpass and eliminate us.

Top AI Industry Figures Secretly Hoping AI Will Wipe Out Humankind

By Frank Landymore

Deloitte was forced to reissue the Australian government $291,000 after getting caught including AI hallucinations in its report.

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Consultants Forced to Pay Money Back After Getting Caught Using AI for Expensive “Report”

By Victor Tangermann

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI’s Sora 2 to Harass Victim

By Frank Landymore

Hot off the heels of the release of her new album, pop star Taylor Swift has been accused of using AI slop to promote the record.

Taylor Swift Caught Using Sloppy AI in Video for New Album

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is gambling on a new AI device by former Apple designer Jony Ive -- but behind the scenes, it's beset by issues.

OpenAI’s Huge New Project Is Running Into Trouble Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore