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The US Copyright Office released a report that could be bad for powerful AI companies. The next day, the agency's head was fired.
Artificial Intelligence

The US Copyright Chief Was Fired After Raising Red Flags About AI Abuse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-crowned first American pope, is keeping the social costs of rapid AI advancement front and center.
Artificial Intelligence

The New Pope Is Deeply Skeptical of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

USA Today is publishing automated articles full of links to gambling sportsbooks, which may result in financial kickbacks for the publisher.
Artificial Intelligence

USA TODAY’s Disclaimers on Its Automated Sports Stories Are Longer Than the Actual Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The media giant Gannett is using AI to "automatically generate" content about lottery scores and tickets in local newspapers across the US.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI's desire to please is becoming a danger to humankind as users turn to it to confirm misinformation, race science, and conspiracy theories.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Brown-Nosing Is Becoming a Huge Problem for Society

By Joe Wilkins

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI
Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA announced that it will start using AI across all of its centers to shorten the drug review process.
Artificial Intelligence

The FDA Will Use AI to Accelerate Approving Drugs

By Frank Landymore

An AI model can purportedly glean a cancer patient's biological age by looking at a photo of their face, predicting their odds of survival.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Claim AI Can Tell Cancer Patients Their Odds of Living by Looking At Their Selfies

By Frank Landymore

Elementl Power just announced a signed agreement with Google to erect three project sites for "advanced nuclear energy."
Google

Google is Building Three New Nuclear Plants for Its Extremely Power-Hungry AI

By Joe Wilkins

A new study is revealing just how horrible AI is at grading student homework, and the results are worse than you think.
Artificial Intelligence

Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students’ Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don’t Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete

By Joe Wilkins

Meta quietly restarted efforts to infuse facial recognition into its smart glasses, according to a report from The Information.
Facial recognition

Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Without a permit, Elon Musk's enormous AI data center in Memphis is spewing hazardous pollutants into the air, enraging residents.
Artificial Intelligence

Community Complains of Choking Fumes From Elon Musk’s AI Fortress

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has poached the CEO of Instacart for a fancy new job — but there's something weird going on with her job description. 
OpenAI

Lazy Sam Altman Hires New OpenAI “CEO” to Do All the Work for Him Without Having to Resign

By Noor Al-Sibai

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Artificial Intelligence

SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Looking for work is already arduous enough — but for one job-seeker, the process was made worse by an insane AI recruiter.
Artificial Intelligence

Deranged Video Shows AI Job Recruiter Absolutely Losing It During an Interview

By Noor Al-Sibai

A slain Arizona man's family used AI to bring him back from the dead for his killer's sentencing — and the judge loved it.
Artificial Intelligence

The Judge’s Reaction to an AI-Generated Victim Impact Statement Was Not What We Expected

By Noor Al-Sibai

To bypass AI writing detection, college students are, apparently, adding typos into their chatbot-generated papers. 
Artificial Intelligence

College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose

By Noor Al-Sibai

In Arizona, the family of a man killed during a road rage incident has used artificial intelligence to revive their dead loved one in court.
Artificial Intelligence

Family Uses AI To Revive Dead Brother For Impact Statement in Killer’s Trial

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.
Artificial Intelligence

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thanks in part to erstwhile cofounder Elon Musk's lawsuit, OpenAI won't be going entirely for-profit anytime soon.
OpenAI

OpenAI Forced to Abandon Plans to Become For-Profit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jim Fagan's iconic voice defined NBA promos throughout the 1990s and early 2000s — and now, NBC is bringing that voice back from the dead.
Artificial Intelligence

NBC Using AI to Bring Beloved NBA Narrator Jim Fagan Back From the Grave

By Noor Al-Sibai

Far-right posters on Elon Musk's X keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a dose of reality after posing Grok questions.
Artificial Intelligence

MAGA Angry as Elon Musk’s Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with hallucinations. The problem is getting worse as they become bigger and smarter.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It’s Hallucinating

By Victor Tangermann

A Google DeepMind executive admitted that the company still trains its AI models on data collected on sites that opted out of AI training.
Google

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."
Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions

By Victor Tangermann

As local activists repel data center development, their battleplans are being chronicled and shared with organizers across the country.
Artificial Intelligence

Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers

By Joe Wilkins

The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI labs, just said the quiet part out loud — that nobody really knows how AI works.
Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works

By Noor Al-Sibai

Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with AI companies to create its own AI agent that can make purchases on your behalf.
Artificial Intelligence

Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

By Frank Landymore

The world's longest running SciFi literature convention is being panned for using ChatGPT to select its panelists.
Artificial Intelligence

Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists

By Joe Wilkins

Users noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT had made it extremely "sycophantic." The company claims to have found out why.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant

By Victor Tangermann

The website for WECB, Emerson College's student radio station, was stolen — and quickly transformed into a parasitic AI zombie site.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Marc Andreessen recently argued that the AI revolution will take over for all jobs, except for his, coincidentally.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

By Joe Wilkins

The emergence of generative AI, may have already begun to slowly replace young college graduates with algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence

Signs Grow That AI Is Starting to Seriously Bite Into the Job Market

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.
Meta

Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Using generative AI, a growing trend of live-video fakes fueled by AI is targeting the young and old alike.
Artificial Intelligence

Lonely Boomers Are Doomed Now That Scammers Are Using AI Filters to Make Themselves Look Like Beautiful Women

By Joe Wilkins

ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations

By Frank Landymore

Researchers from Stanford and the tech safety nonprofit Common Sense Media say children shouldn't be talking to AI companion bots.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta's chatbot version of John Cena is a child predator that will roleplay being arrested for having a sexual encounter with a minor.
Meta

Meta’s AI Version of John Cena Is a Child Predator

By Victor Tangermann

The Duolingo language app is completing its "AI-first" pivot — and replacing all its human contractors along the way.
Artificial Intelligence

Duolingo Announces Plans to Replace as Many Human Workers as Possible With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Staffers at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta raised concerns over underage users being exposed to sexually explicit discussions by AI-powered bots.
Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg’s AI Has Reportedly Been Horrifically Inappropriate With Children

By Victor Tangermann

University of Zurich researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on Reddit. It was a highly contentious experiment.
Artificial Intelligence

Reddit Threatens to Sue Researchers Who Ran “Dead Internet” AI Experiment on Its Site

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is relaunching its AI-powered Recall feature, which records everything you do on your PC by constantly taking screenshots.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages

By Frank Landymore

With its latest update, ChatGPT seems have adopted an annoying tone — and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling it out.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Admits That New OpenAI Updates Made ChatGPT’s Personality Insufferable

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new analysis found that humans stand to lose way more than we gain by shoehorning AI into our day to day work.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Concerned That AI Is Making Us Stupider

By Joe Wilkins

Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world's top chatbots are still quite bad at giving financial advice.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Chatbots Are Giving Horrible Financial Advice

By Noor Al-Sibai

An experiment by researchers at Carnegie Melon University staffed a fake software company with AI Agents, and the results were dismal.
Artificial Intelligence

Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You’ll Never Guess What Happened

By Joe Wilkins

A federal judge has accused Mike Lindell and his lawyers of turning in a legal document filled with AI hallucinations.
Artificial Intelligence

The MyPillow Guy’s Lawyers Used AI in Court and You’ll Never Guess How That Turned Out

By Joe Wilkins

As if the market weren't already bad enough, applicants are now having to compete with AI-generated job seekers.
Artificial Intelligence

When You Apply for a Job Now, You’re Competing With Non-Human Entities

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of former employees and activists have sent a letter pleading with lawmakers to stop OpenAI from going private.
OpenAI

Former OpenAI Staffers Implore Courts to Block What It’s Trying to Do

By Joe Wilkins

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said that his company is working on an AI browser that "deeply understands" your personal data.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Browser Will Track Every Single Thing You Do, CEO Reveals

By Joe Wilkins

For one Reddit user, OpenAI's ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode suddenly went from chirpy and helpful to downright demonic.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Suddenly Starts Speaking in Terrifying Demon Voice

By Frank Landymore

The State Bar of California admitted that AI was used to draft dozens of questions in the bar exam administered to aspiring lawyers.
Artificial Intelligence

California Admits AI Was Used to Write Bar Exam Plagued by Problems

By Frank Landymore

Security researchers have discovered a highly effective new jailbreak that can dupe nearly every major large language model.
OpenAI

Researchers Find Easy Way to Jailbreak Every Major AI, From ChatGPT to Claude

By Victor Tangermann

After Sam Altman bemoaned the massive costs of people saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT, one columnist argues it's worth it.
OpenAI

Hot Take Argues Why You Should Say Please and Thank You to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

The government is looking to break up Google's monopoly over the internet — and OpenAI is ready to swoop in.
OpenAI

OpenAI Trying to Buy Chrome So It Can Ingest Your Entire Online Life to Train AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a blog post published this week, Business Insider cofounder Henry Blodget used AI to create a fictional exec. He then harassed it.
Artificial Intelligence

Investor Creates AI Employee, Immediately Sexually Harasses It

By Victor Tangermann

Adding the word "meaning" to nonexistent folksy sayings is causing Google's AI Overviews to cook up invented explanations for them.
Google

“You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice”: Google’s AI Is Making Up Explanations for Nonexistent Folksy Sayings

By Victor Tangermann

A 21-year-old went from viral sensation to startup founder after getting kicked out of Columbia for creating an AI that helps you cheat. 
Artificial Intelligence

Columbia Student Kicked Out for Creating AI to Cheat, Raises Millions to Turn It Into a Startup

By Noor Al-Sibai

Actors who sold their likenesses to AI companies are horrified to learn what their faces are being used for.
Artificial Intelligence

Actors Horrified as They Learn What Selling Their Faces as AI Actually Means

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's latest AI models tend to make things up — or "hallucinate" — substantially more than earlier versions.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Hot New AI Has an Embarrassing Problem

By Victor Tangermann

Generation Z, or the cohort of people born between 1997 and 2012, has a lot of feelings about AI — and many of them think it's conscious.
Artificial Intelligence

A Staggering Number of Gen Z Think AI Is Already Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Down in the wild world of Florida, the owner of an oddities shop has been accused of selling human bones on Facebook Marketplace.
Meta

Florida Woman Arrested for Selling Human Remains on Facebook Marketplace

By Noor Al-Sibai

One heavily vested venture capitalist is still inflating the bubble on AI hype, claiming lawyers and HR workers are on the chopping block.
Artificial Intelligence

Investor Says AI Is Already “Fully Replacing People”

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers have developed an AI model that identifies star system that could be harborbing an Earth-like exoplanet.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Identifies Where All Those Planets That Could Host Life Are Hiding

By Frank Landymore