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Human models were paid for their likenesses to train AI. Now, to those humans' horror, their faces are being used to peddle propaganda.
Artificial Intelligence

Human Models Horrified to Discover Their Faces Are Being Used for AI Propaganda

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An article generated by the AI-powered local news network Hoodline mistakenly accused the San Mateo District Attorney of murder.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered News Site Accidentally Accuses District Attorney of Murder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Frontier AI models' mathematical reasoning skills and the benchmarks used to measure them may be deeply flawed, a new study reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

Top “Reasoning” AI Models Can be Brought to Their Knees With an Extremely Simple Trick

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Massachusetts teacher gave a kid a bad grade for using generative AI to complete an assignment. His parents are suing the school.
Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School After Teacher Sends Son to Detention for Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Colorado school district is using facial recognition technology to police vaping in bathrooms, according to the Denver Post.
Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Using AI Surveillance to Catch Students Vaping Inside Bathrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In some cases, Apple's new AI summaries of iPhone messages might not be ideal. Exhibit A: the breakup text.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s New AI Summarized a Series of Breakup Texts in the Most Brutal Way Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of the digital stalwart Wikipedia — and Wikipedia's editors are fighting back.
Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Both of the men who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are AI pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology's "godfather."
Google

Researcher Who Just Won the Nobel Prize Quit Google to Warn About Evil AI Coming for Us All

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cognitive scientist and prominent AI researcher Gary Marcus believes that OpenAI will pivot into the surveillance business.
OpenAI

AI Researcher Slams OpenAI, Warns It Will Become the “Most Orwellian Company of All Time”

By Frank Landymore

The notoriously unreliable "AI Overviews" that Google forces to the top of search results will now come with sponsored ads.
Google

Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature

By Frank Landymore

AI might be worsening carbon emissions, but at least we have this fake video of Mark Zuckerberg leg-pressing chicken nuggets, we guess.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta has just announced Movie Gen, its new AI-powered video generation tool, and to show it off, it's flaunting an AI-generated baby hippo.
Meta

Meta’s AI Bootleg Moo Deng Is an Insult to Pygmy Hippos Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

No, Donald Trump didn't wade through Hurricane Helene-caused flooding in blue jeans. That "photo" you saw was AI.
Artificial Intelligence

No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI was forced to delete the chatbot avatar of murder victim Jennifer Crecente — while the world remains outraged.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Company Published a Chatbot Based on a Murdered Woman. Her Family Is Outraged.

By Foster Kamer

Pro-Trump influencers including close Trump ally Laura Loomer were fooled by an AI-generated image of an alleged victim of Hurricane Helene.
Artificial Intelligence

Gullible Trump Cronies Losing Their Minds Over Fake AI Slop on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Websites that promise to "nudify" photos with AI seem to contain Trojan horse viruses that are later used to blackmail those who use them. 
Artificial Intelligence

Russian Hackers Are Using Fake AI “Nudify” Sites to Steal Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.
OpenAI

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren’t Allowed to Back Its Rivals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Reddit user forced Google's NotebookLM AI model to riff on a document that was literally full of crap for ten minutes straight.
Google

Google’s AI Turns the Words “Fart” and “Poop” Written 1,000 Times Into an Entire Podcast

By Frank Landymore

A study says that engineers who use the popular AI programming assistant GitHub Copilot don't experience any significant gains in efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Problem WIth AI Programming Assistants: They’re Inserting Far More Errors Into Code

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash that it's failing to make up for in revenue, according to investor documents.
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Putting Profits First, Yet It’s Bleeding an Astronomical Amount of Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Australian child services worker used ChatGPT to write a sensitive report about a child — and ended up getting the tech banned. 
OpenAI

Child Welfare Worker in Trouble After Using ChatGPT to Submit Bizarre Report About Sex Doll

By Noor Al-Sibai

When being evaluated for a job, one employment-seeker found himself being interviewed by an artificial intelligence avatar.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Baffled When He Shows Up for Job Interview and the Interviewer Is an AI Avatar

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI slop posters are already using fake images of alleged Hurricane Helene devastation to capitalize on the still-unfolding natural disaster.
Meta

Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The artists whose AI-generated image won a fine arts competition is still mad that the US Copyright Office won't recognize his work.
Artificial Intelligence

Self-Styled “AI Artist” Furious That People Are “Blatantly Stealing My Work”

By Frank Landymore

A tattoo parlor put bizarre AI-generated advertisements all over Brooklyn. We decided to get to the bottom of them.
Artificial Intelligence

What’s Up With Those Sloppy AI-Generated Tattoo Posters in New York City?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT's new advanced voice mode has users all a-titter — including the one who tricked it into singing Cardi B's hit song "WAP."
OpenAI

Someone Tricked ChatGPT Into Singing “WAP”… and May We Just Say “Yikes”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A police department in the United Kingdom is testing an AI-powered program that can potentially help them solve cold cases.
Artificial Intelligence

Police Department Testing AI-Powered Detective on Real Crimes

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to "remember" prior conversations — and it's very easily exploited.
OpenAI

You Can Insert False Memories Into ChatGPT, Researcher Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Online fantasy and science fiction magazine Clarkesworld is drowning in an onslaught of AI-generated slop.
Artificial Intelligence

Editors of Sci-Fi Magazine Disgusted as They Realized Submissions Were Filling With AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Right wing extremists are using artificial intelligence to bring Adolf Hitler back to life for social media consumption.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Hitler Running Rampant Online

By Sharon Adarlo

Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but that access is very limited. 
OpenAI

Authors Suing OpenAI Will Get to See Its Secret Training Data in Heavily Locked Down Room

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thousands of doctors are sending AI-generated messages to patients, despite the possibility of the AI introducing dangerous errors.
Artificial Intelligence

Medical AI Caught Telling Dangerous Lie About Patient’s Medical Record

By Victor Tangermann

Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer, as part of a software licensing deal with his AI startup Character.
Google

Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Get a Single AI Researcher Back

By Victor Tangermann

As AI chatbots get bigger and more powerful, they are also lying more, instead of declining questions they can't answer.
Artificial Intelligence

The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie, Worrying Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.
OpenAI

OpenAI Pivoting From “Benefiting Humanity” to “Making Lots of Money”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg argued that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value" of their work.
Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg Says It’s Fine to Train AI on Your Data Because It Probably Has No Value Anyway

By Victor Tangermann

An assistant professor of philosophy was shocked to find her students use ChatGPT to "briefly introduce" themselves.
Ethics

Professor Horrified When Students Use ChatGPT to Generate “Briefly Introduce Yourself” Assignment… in Ethics Course

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is losing even more executives — right as Reuters reports that it's looking to restructure its core business.
OpenAI

OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

The billionaire running the popular language learning app Duolingo isn't afraid of job automation in the age of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, the man behind iconic films such as "The Terminator," is ready to jump on the AI bandwagon.
Artificial Intelligence

James Cameron, Who Warned of Skynet, Joins Board of AI Company

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows several people menacingly cornering a stopped Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco and tagging it with graffiti.
Artificial Intelligence

Waymo Passenger Clutches Small Dog as Vandals Surround Vehicle

By Sharon Adarlo

The head of stock research at Goldman Sachs, Jim Covello, believes that the burgeoning AI industry could be in for a rude awakening.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Goldman Sachs Stock Researcher Warns AI Bubble May Be About to Explode

By Victor Tangermann

The official OpenAI Newsroom account on X, formerly Twitter, was hacked by someone to promote a fake token as part of a phishing attack.
OpenAI

Official OpenAI Twitter Account Taken Over by Hackers to Shill Crypto Scheme

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waxed prolific about the future of artificial intelligence and chose some strange units of measurement to describe.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Invents Bizarre New Unit of Time for Measuring When His Promises Will Come True

By Noor Al-Sibai

A slew of companies are now offering AI assistants to restaurants that will handle reservations and other inquiries over the phone.
Artificial Intelligence

Restaurants Are Hiring AI to Pick Up the Phone When You Call

By Frank Landymore

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence is throwing major shade on Elon Musk's years of broken promises about self-driving Teslas. 
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Says Elon Musk Is Lying About Self-Driving Teslas

By Noor Al-Sibai

The new logo, which is literally just a black circle, was unveiled at a recent company wide meeting, where it was met with distaste.
OpenAI

OpenAI Staff Upset by Company’s Horrendous New Logo

By Frank Landymore

Standup comedian John Mulaney was invited to do a set at a San Francisco event put on by AI company Dreamforce. He roasted them brutally.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Event Hired John Mulaney to Do a Comedy Set and He Brutally Roasted Them Onstage

By Victor Tangermann

Along with coal, the natural gas industry is now stepping up to meet the ludicrous energy demands imposed by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

During an international summit, some of the world's foremost AI experts came together to write a definitive dispatch on its dangers.
Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Scientists Warn AI Could Escape Control at Any Moment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.
OpenAI

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

As the tech industry sees more and more layoffs, one desperate tech worker resorted to putting up flyers outside of Google.
Google

Desperate Tech Worker Hangs Up Hundreds of Flyers Looking for Job Outside Facebook and Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft will buy all the power produced by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for twenty years as part of a deal to reopen it.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

Lionsgate announced a major partnership with Runway, which will develop a custom AI model for the movie studio using its library of movies.
Artificial Intelligence

Lionsgate’s AI Deal Sounds a Lot Like It Wants to Replace the Jobs of Storyboard and VFX Artists

By Frank Landymore

The app SocialAI simulates the experience of making hit tweets on social media and getting thousands of replies in return.
Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre New AI App Simulates If You Were Famous With Millions of Fawning Fans

By Frank Landymore

California passed new laws that protect actors from being replicated by an AI without their explicit permission.
Artificial Intelligence

It’s Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

EA Shows Off AI System That Lets You Dream Up an Entire Videogame From Scratch

By Sharon Adarlo

AI experts are calling for submissions for the "hardest and broadest set of questions ever" to try to stump AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Preparing “Humanity’s Last Exam” to Test Powerful AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.
OpenAI

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

Larry Ellison, cofounder of the software giant Oracle, believes that an age of surveillance supercharged by AI will soon be upon us.
Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

A ChatGPT conversation went viral on Reddit purportedly showing the chatbot reaching out to a user first. Other users are crying foul.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted

By Victor Tangermann

o1-preview's "chain-of-thought reasoning" allows users to get a glimpse of what the model is "thinking." It also shows how its deceiving.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Strawberry “Thought Process” Sometimes Shows It Scheming to Trick Users

By Victor Tangermann

In a creepy new video, ChatGPT's voice mode is heard screaming eerily when a user prompted the OpenAI chatbot to do so.
OpenAI

It Turns Out ChatGPT’s Voice Mode Can Scream, and It’s an Upsetting Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

A local newspaper in Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake news anchors. Unsurprisingly, they're freaky.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Alarmed When Newspaper Replaces Humans With Glitchy AI Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré