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For some people, obsession with ChatGPT has gone so far, it's exacerbating their mental illness — and causing them to go off their meds.

ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape.

Google’s AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media

By Victor Tangermann

A wild new story in the New York Times reveals that ChatGPT-driven psychosis led to the tragic death of a young man.

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA plans to "unleash AI" on new drug evaluations in order to "radically increase efficiency in the review process."

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The FDA Is Already Outsourcing Drug and Food Analysis to Error-Plagued AI Chatbot

Apple researchers released a paper, finding that frontier AI models were getting stumped by simple children's games like Tower of Hanoi.

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Frontier AI Models Are Getting Stumped by a Simple Children’s Game

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

So far, French startup Moment Labs has raised $37 million to build its video production software meant to cut the need for humans.

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Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop

Apple executives had a tough time explaining how the multi-trillion-dollar tech giant has fallen so far behind the competition in AI.

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Apple Execs Get Seriously Flustered Trying to Explain the Company’s Dismal AI Failure

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs — even though such a project didn't work for him.

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CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession

By Noor Al-Sibai

Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy "superintelligence group."

Zuckerberg’s Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company

The US government's official "Vaccine Hub" website, Vaccines.gov, seem to have been taken over by AI slop content.

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Government Website Caught Hosting “Gay Impregnation” Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

The OpenAI CEO went off on a long-time AI skeptic who roasted his bizarre manifesto called "The Gentle Singularity."

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Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic

Like all websites, ChatGPT is fallible — and when it went down this week, people lost their godforsaken minds.

People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

Disney and NBCUniversal are suing AI company Midjourney, accusing it of enabling copyright infringement on a big scale.

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“Piracy Is Piracy”: Disney Sues Midjourney for Massive Copyright Violation

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire investor Robert Smith recently told a crowd of 5,500 that at least 60 percent of them would be out on the street within a year.

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Investment CEO Tells Convention Audience That 60 Percent of Them Will Be Unemployed Next Year Due to AI

CEOs are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools to create avatars of themselves that can deal with mundane tasks.

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CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings

By Victor Tangermann

Despite ChatGPT's well-documented issues, people are using it to advise them on relationship issues — and it's not going so well.

People Are Asking ChatGPT for Relationship Advice and It’s Ending in Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.

ChatGPT “Absolutely Wrecked” at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's Demis Hassabis recently made the extraordinary claim that AGI will allow us to colonize the galaxy "beginning in 2030."

Google DeepMind CEO Says AI Will Let Us “Colonize the Galaxy” Starting in Five Years

Anthropic wanted to show off Claude's skills by having it pen a blog — but just after announcing, the company decided to kibosh it.

Anthropic Abruptly Shuts Down Blog Run by Its AI, Won’t Say Why

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ohio State University announced that it will require every student to use AI next semester — regardless of their major.

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College Says Every Student Is Now Required to Use AI

By Frank Landymore

In a sign of the times, YouTube creators are labelling their music playlists with "No AI" to signal that their creations are slop free.

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YouTube Playlists Are Advertising “No AI” as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn is having major regrets after widely bragging about replacing his human staffers with AI.

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Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI

By Victor Tangermann

After an epic falling out with Donald Trump, Elon Musk is fending off rumors about his love life from his own AI, Grok.

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Elon Musk Shushes His AI Grok as It Says He Stole the Wife of Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Apple have released a damning paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of modern AIs.

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Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Cold Water on the Entire AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

The next time you call your car dealership to schedule a tune-up, the voice on the other end may not belong to a human.

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Car Dealerships Are Replacing Phone Staff With AI Voice Agents

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billionaire tech tycoon Elad Gil is rolling out the private equity playbook, complete with a heaping dose of artificial intelligence.

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A Billionaire Is Buying Entire Businesses and Converting Them to Run With AI

A team of researchers have created a dataset using only openly licensed or public domain content and used it to train an AI model.

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The Tech Industry Said It Was “Impossible” to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion

By Frank Landymore

A leading AI pioneer is concerned by the technology's propensity to lie and deceive — and he's founding his own nonprofit to curb it.

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Godfather of AI Alarmed as Advanced Systems Quickly Learning to Lie, Deceive, Blackmail and Hack

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google has been caught using powered off Android phones to send and receive personal data to serve users targeted ads.

Google Going to Trial After Doing Something Super Sketchy to Android Users

Meta's giving up human moderators for AI, and the consequences for vulnerable users are likely going to be grim.

If You Thought Facebook Was Toxic Already, Now It’s Replacing Its Human Moderators with AI

The Washington Post has quietly been building an AI tool that takes much of the work out of writing as it attempts to recoup readership.

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The Washington Post Is Secretly Planning to Start Publishing Articles Created Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anthropic researchers are warning that humans may soon be little more than "meat robots" for near-future AI overlords.

Anthropic Researchers Warn That Humans Could End Up Being “Meat Robots” Controlled by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

As more and more creative jobs fall away to sloppified AI, American chef Grant Achatz has embraced the tech to build his recipes.

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Famous Chef Boasts That He’s Using AI to Invent New Recipes

Educators are horrified as their students become hopelessly dependent on AI models that do their thinking for them.

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AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students

By Frank Landymore

Amid Business Insider's latest pivot to AI, the site's past brushes with the technology are coming back to haunt it.

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Business Insider Did Something So Stupid With AI That We’re Reeling

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's large language model GPT-4o told a user who identified themself to it as a former addict named Pedro to indulge in a little meth.

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Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat

By Victor Tangermann

A teen tech titan wants to retrofit robots to give them artificial bodily functions and feelings — and train AI models on their data.

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New AI Startup Giving Robots Virtual Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Sweating Response So They Can Better Emulate Human Emotions Like Fear and Anxiety

By Noor Al-Sibai

Having phone sex with an AI chatbot is, as it turns out, quite upsetting to one's unwitting human partner.

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Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an internal memo, OpenAI described its plans to make users rely on ChatGPT — and it seems to be working.

Secret OpenAI Memo Describes Plans to Make Users Rely on “Entity”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon engineers saying they're being forced to use AI while being told to do more work on even tighter deadlines.

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Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark

By Frank Landymore

College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City's Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names.

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College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement

By Victor Tangermann

The White House wrote off the errors as "minor citation" mishaps, but it's so much more worse than that. AI's fingerprints are all over it.

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The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse

By Frank Landymore

Talk about cutting-edge tech. Google's more-than-frequently-wrong AI Overviews search feature still thinks it's 2024.

Google Humiliated as Its Idiot AI Overviews Caught Telling Users It’s Still 2024

By Victor Tangermann

As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in AI, the models are falling apart at the seams and going mad from cannibalism.

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AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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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

RFJ Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report was relying on some extremely questionable sources to back up its claims.

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RFK Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist, in Clear Sign of AI Generated Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs, if Dario Amodei is to be believed.

CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

Folks are now using ChatGPT for all kinds of things — including, apparently, to get feedback on how to be hotter.

Women With Body Image Issues Are Asking ChatGPT Something Terrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

Unemployment among recent college grads is rising, and research suggests artificial intelligence is to blame.

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AI Is Destroying Gen Z’s Chances at a Stable Career

OpenAI's exciting new partnership with famed iPhone designer Jony Ive has the rumor-mill churning — and the latest may give you a guffaw.

You May Laugh When You Hear What OpenAI’s Top Secret AI Gadget Allegedly Looks Like

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fresh on the heels from his exit from Meta, former Facebook executive Nick Clegg is defending AI against copyright holders.

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Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists’ Consent to Ingest Their Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's latest o3 model frequently sabotaged the script that would shut it down even when it was explicitly told not to.

Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down

By Frank Landymore

Women in wealthy nations are three times more likely to face heightened levels of automation risk than their male counterparts.

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AI Is Replacing Women’s Jobs Specifically

Facing dismal financial results, Target is praying to the gods of artificial intelligence to fix its horrible stores.

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After Disastrous Experiments Into AI, Target Pledges to Pile on Even More AI

Hype for Sam Altman's AI device is building as some shady venture capital deals take place below the surface.

Something Weird Is Going on With the Investors in Jony Ive’s Startup That Was Just Bought by OpenAI

Instead of delivering an enthusiastic response supporting the user on their questionable mission, ChatGPT took a surprisingly different tack.

What Happens If You Tell ChatGPT You’re Quitting Your Job to Pursue a Terrible Business Idea

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Anthropic discovered that their AI was ready and willing to take extreme action when threatened.

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Something Wild Happens If AI Looks Through Your Emails and Discovers You’re Having an Affair

By Noor Al-Sibai

A striking graph, which went viral on Reddit last week, shows OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT overtaking Wikipedia.

Terrifying Survey Claims ChatGPT Has Overtaken Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.

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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer’s Style

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new "Will Smith eating spaghetti" AI clip, a far more recognizable Smith can be seen indulging in a tasty-looking plate of noodles.

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The Newest “Will Smith Eating Spaghetti” Video Includes AI-Generated Squelching and Chomping Sounds That Just Might Make You Sick

By Victor Tangermann