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

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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 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.

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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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.

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.

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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.

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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."

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

By Frank Landymore

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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.

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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 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.

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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 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’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.

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.

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Journalist Alarmed When Newspaper Replaces Humans With Glitchy AI Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft has secretly been selling AI to oil companies and claiming it can help them make even more money while degrading the climate.

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Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's newfangled o1-preview AI model is still struggling with the absolute basics — like counting letters.

OpenAI’s New “Strawberry” AI Is Still Making Idiotic Mistakes

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk built a massive, fume-emitting data center for xAI in South Memphis. Locals reportedly had little to no input.

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Elon Musk’s Huge AI Supercomputer Visibly Spewing Fumes Into Surrounding Community

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite little evidence suggesting it works, Nevada is moving forward with plans to use AI to decide who gets unemployment benefits.

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The Geniuses in Nevada’s Government Are Letting a Half-Baked AI Decide Whether People Should Get Unemployment Benefits

By Noor Al-Sibai

A few years before his passing, the late, great James Earl Jones teamed up with an AI voice startup to immortalize his iconic baritone.

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Before He Died, James Earl Jones Signed Paperwork to Voice Darth Vader Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has released its long-awaited AI model, which was previously code-named "Strawberry," called OpenAI o1-preview.

OpenAI Just Released Its Long-Awaited “Strawberry” Model

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is rumored to release an AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason as soon as this week.

OpenAI Launching “Strawberry” Model With “Human-Like Reasoning” as Soon as This Week

By Victor Tangermann

After a series of AI scandals, the CEO of Hasbro has revealed he's "excited" about using the technology in "Dungeons & Dragons."

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Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons

By Noor Al-Sibai

Should you smear human feces on a balloon to potty train your kid? According to Google Search's AI Overview, the answer is yes.

Google’s Search AI Suggests Smearing Fecal Matter on Balloon to Potty Train Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In her statement endorsing Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift trashed AI deepfakes used to make her seem like she was supporting Donald Trump.

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Taylor Swift Slams Republican Use of AI to Deepfake Her Into Endorsing Trump

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk's Grok AI image generator just can't get the features of vice president Kamala Harris right.

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For Some Reason, AI Generators Are Absolutely Butchering Attempts to Draw Kamala Harris

By Victor Tangermann

Cops in New Mexico used an AI-generated image of fake teenage girl to attract pedophiles, a lawsuit filed by the state shows.

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Cops Use AI-Generated 14-Year-Old Girl to Lure Sex Criminals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The GOP's House Judiciary Committee posted used AI to further debunked and unconfirmed social media rumors about Haitian immigrants and pets.

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Desperate Republicans Using AI to Generate Fake Photos of Donald Trump Saving Kittens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a bizarre video, an AI music generator appears to be sobbing like a human, shocking the Reddit user who posted it.

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User Confused When AI Unexpectedly Starts Sobbing Out Loud

By Noor Al-Sibai

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

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Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Automated decision-making" is being heralded as the next big thing — but the people on the other side of it are not on board.

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Americans Absolutely Detest AI That Makes Decisions for Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bill Gates, the seventh-richest man in the world, has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research.

Bill Gates, Who Could Afford a Private Army of Researchers, Says He Does His Research Using ChatGPT, Which Makes Mistakes Constantly

By Noor Al-Sibai

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

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Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

By Noor Al-Sibai