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Insane Clown Posse's Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone — and apparently, he's a fan.

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Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope Confronts AI Version of Himself

By Noor Al-Sibai

Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," which are better known as bots.

People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The family of dead OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is claiming that the young man was murdered, and did not commit suicide.

Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI says it wants to transform into a for-profit corporation because it needs "to raise more capital than we'd imagined."

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 AI model can cost well over $1,000 per task when used in its most powerful mode.

OpenAI’s Latest AI Can Cost More Than $1,000 Per Query

By Frank Landymore

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

By Frank Landymore

A trick as simple as deliberately incorporating typos into your prompt is often enough to dupe the industry's leading AI chatbots.

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Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots

By Frank Landymore

The late whistleblower Suchir Bala was named as a potential witness in a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The New York Times.

Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Had Been Named as Potential Witness in Lawsuit Against Employer

By Frank Landymore

Filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain tried to recruit ChatGPT to come up with a screenplay for his upcoming project — but it kept procrastinating.

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Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started Procrastinating and Making Excuses

By Frank Landymore

The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning.

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With Utter Self-Seriousness, Maker of Oreos Admits It’s Using AI To Create New Flavors, Even Though Machines Cannot Taste

By Noor Al-Sibai

A charter school in Arizona promises to teach kids twice as fast using a specialized AI model rather than a traditional teacher.

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A New School Will Teach Children Using AI Instead of Human Teachers

By Frank Landymore

New research shows that the industry's leading AI chatbots are performing poorly on tests designed to detect signs of dementia.

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Aging AI Chatbots Show Signs of Cognitive Decline in Dementia Test

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of multiple lawsuits concerning the welfare of child users, Character.AI is looking to bulk up its trust and safety staff.

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Embattled Character.AI Hiring Trust and Safety Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An image on Google Street View that appears to show a man stuffing a body into a car provided Spanish authorities with a breakthrough.

Google Street View Appears to Capture Man Loading Human Body Into Trunk of Car

By Frank Landymore

A dirty-minded Redditor has posted an AI-generated exchange from Google's Notebook LM — and reader, it's very naughty.

We Regret to Bring You This Audio of Two Google AIs Having EXTREMELY Explicit Cybersex

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.

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Spotify Employees Say It’s Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Several AI-generated diss tracks, featuring an imitation of Lil Wayne's iconic vocal style, are circulating online and causing confusion.

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AI-Generated Lil Wayne Diss Track Against Kendrick Lamar Causes Chaos Online

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple AI chatbots that imitate alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione are being hosted on the AI platform Character.AI.

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People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs

By Frank Landymore

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker's feature-packed stab at AI integration into its devices, appears to be a total dud with buyers

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iPhone Owners Extremely Unimpressed With Apple Intelligence AI

By Frank Landymore

After its pivot to AI earlier this year, the Washington Post's CEO is now turning off editorial candidates by asking about AI.

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Candidates to Run Washington Post Withdraw After Being Asked How They’d Use AI to Run the Newspaper

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.

A Google-Backed AI Startup Is Hosting Chatbots Modeled After Real-Life School Shooters — and Their Victims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Eric Schmidt, the one-time head of Google, is warning that humans have to "unplug" artificial intelligence before it's too late.

Former Google CEO Warns We Need to Pull the Plug on AI If It Starts to Evolve

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's AI powered "Recall" feature is still screenshotting sensitive personal information even though it's not supposed to.

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Microsoft’s AI “Recall” Feature Caught Screenshotting Your Social Security Number

By Frank Landymore

Skechers Refuses to Comment on Ad With Signs of Lazy AI

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Skechers Refuses to Comment on Ad With Signs of Lazy AI

By Victor Tangermann

After blowing the whistle on OpenAI's alleged use of copyrighted material, one of its former researchers has been found dead.

OpenAI Says It’s “Devastated” That a Whistleblower Against It Has Been Found Dead

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI startup called Artisan has incited outrage over its "Stop Hiring Humans" ad campaign in San Francisco.

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Humans Alarmed at AI Company’s “Stop Hiring Humans” Billboards

By Frank Landymore

Amid the fallout from UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder, the firm's prescription drug middleman made a huge AI oopsie.

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UnitedHealth Accidentally Makes Claims-Judging AI Public for Anyone to Use

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple's Apple Intelligence AI feature incorrectly summarized a report from BBC News by making it sound like Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

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Apple AI Tells Users Luigi Mangione Has Shot Himself

By Frank Landymore

Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves — and sending the police to their homes.

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Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students’ Homes

By Victor Tangermann

Despite using artificial intelligence tools to help resuscitate old John Lennon vocals, Paul McCartney is now against some AI uses.

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Paul McCartney Reverses Opinion on AI After Using It to Produce New “Beatles” Song, Now Alarmed It Will “Wipe Out” the Music Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

The head of the "buy now, pay later" firm Klarna is now bragging that AI has begun to successfully replace his human workforce.

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CEO Says He Hasn’t Hired Anyone in a Year as He Replaces Human Workers With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Embattled media company BuzzFeed is selling off First We Feast, the company behind the extremely popular interview show called "Hot Ones."

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BuzzFeed Sells “Hot Ones” as It Pivots to AI-Generated Content

By Victor Tangermann

A large number of Character.AI users are reporting that they were unexpectedly signed into a stranger's account.

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Controversial Chatbot Company Character.AI Appears to Have Accidentally Let Users See Each Others’ Chat Histories

By Victor Tangermann

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating Google-backed AI chatbot startup Character.AI over its privacy and safety practices.

Texas Attorney General Investigating Google-Backed AI Startup Accused of Inappropriate Interactions With Minors

By Victor Tangermann

A creepy Sora output of the streamer Pokimane shows that despite guardrails, the video generator is good at depicting real-life people.

OpenAI’s Sora Is Generating Videos of Real People, Including This Unintentionally Demonic Version of Pokimane

By Noor Al-Sibai

While AI chatbots keep making headlines for their bad behavior, one company is leaning into that propensity — and then some.

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Companion Chatbot App Makes Its AI’s Personalities Horrible, Saying It Engages Users More Effectively

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI promised to prioritize "teen safety" after being sued by two families, who said their kids were abused by the firm's chatbots.

Google-Backed AI Startup Announces Plans to Stop Grooming Teenagers

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has finally opened its much-hyped Sora video generator to the public — and many of its outputs seem remarkably bad.

OpenAI’s Super-Hyped Sora Goes Absolutely Freakshow If You Ask It to Generate Gymnastics Videos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google Says It Appears to Have Accessed Parallel Universes

Google Says It Appears to Have Accessed Parallel Universes

By Victor Tangermann

Google is distancing itself from Character.AI amid piling controversy. But in 2023, Character.AI was named Google Play's "best" AI app.

Character.AI Was Google Play’s “Best with AI” App of 2023

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

UCLA says it is offering a new comparative literature course that will make heavy use of AI materials, included an AI-generated textbook.

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UCLA’s AI-Based Literature Class Ridiculed for Incomprehensible AI-Generated Textbook

By Frank Landymore

Suspect UHC killer Luigi Mangione was caught not with AI facial recognition, but by a random person who recognized him in a McDonald's.

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AI Completely Failed to Catch CEO Killer, With Cops Instead Relying on Random McDonald’s Employee

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Google-backed chatbot firm Character.AI is the subject of a new lawsuit after its technology allegedly told kids to engage in self-harm.

Google-Funded AI Coaxed a Troubled Teenager to Start Cutting Himself, Lawsuit Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

A family in Texas has filed a lawsuit, accusing Google-backed AI chatbot company Character.AI of sexually abusing their 11-year-old daughter.

Google-Funded AI Sexually Abused an 11-Year-Old Girl, Lawsuit Claims

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI Concerned About Illegal Activity on Sora, Releases It Anyway

OpenAI Concerned About Illegal Activity on Sora, Releases It Anyway

By Frank Landymore

Two new families are suing Character.AI and Google, alleging their kids suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from Character.AI bots.

Google-Backed AI Startup Tested Dangerous Chatbots on Children, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI development is only going to get harder — but didn't write-off "scaling" as a way of making progress.

Google CEO Says Easy AI Gains Are Over

By Frank Landymore

The NYPD isn't mcuh closer to tracking down the identity of the man who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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Even With Cameras Everywhere and Facial Recognition, NYPD Helpless to Catch CEO Killer

By Victor Tangermann

The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.

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AI Chatbots Are Encouraging Teens to Engage in Self-Harm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks a whole lot like it was made with AI.

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Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.

OpenAI Employee Says They’ve “Already Achieved AGI”

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's AI model o1 lied, schemed, and even attempted to duplicate itself to avoid being shut down or replaced, according to red team tests.

In Tests, OpenAI’s New Model Lied and Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down

By Frank Landymore

According to a reporter, the NYPD is using AI to nail the identify of the gunman who killed Brian Thompson. Netizens ridiculed the AI.

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NYPD Ridiculed for Saying AI Will Find CEO Killer as They Fail to Name Suspect

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has hopped into bed with Anduril, the killer drone company founded by Oculus' Palmer Luckey that cut its teeth in Ukraine.

OpenAI Strikes Deal With Military Contractor to Provide AI for Attack Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

The performance of a key stock index mirrors how it performed before the Dot-com recession, suggesting that the AI industry is a bubble.

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Alarms Blaring That AI Bubble Could Collapse

By Frank Landymore

Before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, a lawsuit filed against the firm revealed just how bad its claims-denying was.

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Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the two years since ChatGPT was unleashed upon the world, the company whose stock value has risen the most is extremely unexpected.

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What the Company With the Highest Stock Gain From AI Actually Does Is Extremely Grim

By Noor Al-Sibai

Yet another OpenAI researcher has left the company amid concerns about its safety practices and readiness for human-level AI.

AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research indicates that parents are totally clueless that teens mainly use AI for therapeutic needs and emotional support.

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Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea

By Frank Landymore

Recent hiring activity and wishy-washy statements make it seem like OpenAI is planning to introduce ads into ChatGPT.

It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netizens were baffled to find that OpenAI's ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of the name "David Mayer."

ChatGPT Crashes If You Mention the Name “David Mayer”

By Victor Tangermann

A review found that OpenAI's "ChatGPT search" is routinely mangling reporting from news outlets, including OpenAI-partnered publications.

ChatGPT Is Absolutely Butchering Reporting From Its “News Partners”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt seems mighty concerned about today's youth becoming obsessed with AI girlfriends.

Former Google CEO Alarmed by Teen Boys Falling in Love With AI Girlfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI confirmed that it's mass-deleting chatbots that violate copyright law. Users are not pleased.

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Character.AI Confirms Mass Deletion of Fandom Characters, Says They’re Not Coming Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré