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Google's AI search delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries with total confidence. Just one problem: it's wrong. A lot.

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leave it to The Onion to excoriate OpenAI and its horrendous handling of the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT fiasco.

The Onion’s Take on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Disaster Is Pretty Much Perfect

By Frank Landymore

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta, hoping to cash in on AI for itself, is failing to prevent abusive AI-generated images from spreading across its social media platforms.

While Meta Stuffs AI Into All Its Products, It’s Apparently Helpless to Stop Perverts on Instagram From Publicly Lusting Over Sexualized AI-Generated Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The source for the recommendation made by the Google AI Overview to add glue to pizza is utterly embarrassing.

The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies’ AI Obsession

By Frank Landymore

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New reporting by the New York Times alleges that Elon Musk did ketamine and had an affair with Nicole Shanahan.

Elon Musk Reportedly Took Ketamine and Had Sex With the Wife of the Cofounder of Google

By Jon Christian

A resurfaced video shows an OpenAI engineer conceding that it's "deeply unfair" to "build AI and take everyone's job away."

Video Shows OpenAI Engineer Admitting It’s “Deeply Unfair” to “Build AI and Take Everyone’s Job Away”

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that 52 percent of answers to programming questions generated by ChatGPT were incorrect.

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

By Sharon Adarlo

Low-paid African content moderators, many of whom are living with PTSD, are calling on Biden to help ensure fair working conditions.

African Workers Doing OpenAI’s Training Say They’re Being Subjected to “Modern Day Slavery”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After OpenAI copied actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new voice assistant, the head honcho at Microsoft bashed human-like AIs.

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal

By Sharon Adarlo

The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.

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The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Those dodgy "AI Overviews" that Google is forcing onto your search results will now feature "relevant" sponsored ads.

Google Is Already Jamming Advertisements Into Its Crappy AI

By Frank Landymore

Scarlett Johansson is furious that OpenAI seemingly mimiced her voice in its ChatGPT update, which could be an "appropriation of likeness."

Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue

By Frank Landymore

A Tesla owner is lucky to be alive after his vehicle in Full Self-Driving mode almost drove straight into a moving train.

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Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Careening Straight Into Moving Train as Driver Desperately Tries to Turn Away

By Sharon Adarlo

A newly-retired Google strategist went off on his ex-employer for forcing AI down its workers' throats as it attempts to win the rat race.

Google Strategist Quits, Slams Company’s AI Work as Motivated by Greed and Fear

By Noor Al-Sibai

It sounds like Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, did something interesting last year: he asked Scarlett Johansson for consent.

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Sam Altman Ignoring Scarlett Johansson’s Lack of Consent Shows Us Exactly What Type of Person He Really Is

By Jon Christian

Microsoft has just unveiled a Windows feature to help users "recall" all their past activities by recording everything they do in real time.

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Microsoft Announces Feature That Records Everything You Do on Your Computer for AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Palantir's recent AI and defense expo sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.

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Palantir’s Military AI Tech Conference Sounds Absolutely Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI allegedly asked Scarlett Johansson if it could use her voice for the latest ChatGPT update — and then pushed on without her consent.

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Asked to Use Her Voice for ChatGPT, and When She Said No They Did It Anyway

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's AI search wants you to change your car's "blinker fluid." No, dear reader: blinker fluid does not exist.

Google’s Search AI Recommends Changing Your Car’s Blinker Fluid, Which Is a Made Up Thing That Does Not Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Avram Piltch, editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware, cooked up a new Chrome extension that can block Google's new feature AI Overviews.

How to Block Google’s Annoying AI Answers With This Cool Browser Plugin

By Sharon Adarlo

Geoffrey Hinton fears that we aren't doing enough to ensure the safe development of AI, with military applications posing the biggest threat.

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Godfather of AI Says There’s an Expert Consensus AI Will Soon Exceed Human Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

A data training failure has resulted in OpenAI's new GPT-4o model spitting out spam and porn-littered Chinese-language responses.

The New ChatGPT Has a Huge Problem in Chinese

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest ChatGPT update drew comparisons to the film "Her" which stars Johansson, but OpenAI insists it didn't mean to imitate the actress.

OpenAI Removing Voice From ChatGPT That Sounds Too Much Like Scarlett Johansson

By Frank Landymore

If you search the words "how to edge" on Google, the words "in class" are recommended as the top autocomplete suggestion.

Google’s Top Autocomplete Suggestion for “How to Edge” Is Wild

By Noor Al-Sibai

An ML researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies linked to OpenAI in Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses.

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Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI got a lot of criticism this week for departures and a restrictive nondisclosure agreement. Sam Altman is clearly freaked.

Sam Altman Clearly Freaked Out by Reaction to News of OpenAI Silencing Former Employees

By Jon Christian

OpenAI employees are forced to sign a restrictive nondisclosure agreement (NDA) forbidding them from ever criticizing the company.

OpenAI Employees Forced to Sign NDA Preventing Them From Ever Criticizing Company

By Jon Christian

It might sound like a joke, but OpenAI has dissolved the team responsible for making sure advanced AI doesn't turn against humankind.

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Flames Company for Axing Team Working to Prevent Superintelligent AI From Turning Against Humankind

By Jon Christian

After chasing it for years, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is humblebragging that all his international fame is taking a toll.

After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam Altman Complains That He’s Getting Recognized in Public Too Much

By Jon Christian

After gunmen killed more than 140 people, supporters of the terrorist group ISIS released a slick AI-generated propaganda video.

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ISIS Affiliates Using AI to Generate Propaganda Promoting Terrorism

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft's water use and carbon emissions have increased compared to 2020 numbers due to artificial intelligence datacenters.

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Microsoft’s Emissions and Water Use Shoot Up as It Goes All in on AI Datacenters

By Sharon Adarlo

The American newspaper giant and USA Today owner Gannett is using AI to generate a bulleted list of "Key Points" for news articles.

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USA Today Using AI to Generate Parts of Articles, Leaked Memo Shows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's GPT-4 is so lifelike, it can trick more than 50 percent of human test subjects into thinking they are talking to a person.

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Majority of Humans Fooled by GPT-4 in Turing Test, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.

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Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot

By Frank Landymore

As The Information reports, Stable Diffusion maker Stability AI is facing a severe cash crunch and is in talks of being sold off.

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The Maker of Stable Diffusion Is Collapsing, Considering Sale

By Victor Tangermann

Writers at the newspaper giant Gannett quietly updated employment contracts to provide much more leeway for generating "news content."

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Gannett Staff Furious Over Contract Allowing AI “to Generate News Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism

By Sharon Adarlo

This week, in Google's own marketing materials showing off "search in the Gemini era," the company made yet another blunder.

During Huge Demo, Google’s AI Provides Idiotic Advice About Photography That Would Destroy Film

By Victor Tangermann

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist, is leaving the company after moving to oust CEO Sam Altman in November.

Scientist Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious Leaves OpenAI After Leading Coup Against Sam Altman

By Noor Al-Sibai

Australian broadcaster the ABC discovered a "parasitic" content farm that's churning out poorly plagiarized news stories.

Artificial Intelligence

Sites Busted Running AI Content Farm That Rips Off Real Journalists’ Work When They Accidentally Left Prompt in Published Article

By Victor Tangermann

In China, the AI cloning of dead relatives has become a thriving cottage industry, driving down prices and spurring technological advances.

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Selling AI Clones of Dead Relatives for Just $150

By Noor Al-Sibai

It appears that OpenAI executives were inspired by Spike Jonze's 2013 sleeper hit "Her" when creating the latest version of ChatGPT.

Sam Altman Inspired to Create AI by Tragic Movie Where Joaquin Phoenix Has Heart Broken by Chatbot

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI could be serving as a "great filter" that prevents alien civilizations from surviving long enough for us to notice them.

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We’re Detecting No Alien Civilizations Because They Were Destroyed by AI, Astrophysicist Proposes

By Frank Landymore

In one demo that involves a tester introducing OpenAI's GPT-4o to his adorable dog, the AI responds by making bizarre robotic noises.

ChatGPT’s Vision-Enabled Chatbot Makes Extremely Weird Sound When It Sees a Dog

By Victor Tangermann

Caught with pie on their faces, some companies are copping to using ChatGPT and other generative AI tools to write important legal documents.

Company “Sheepishly” Admits Its Employee Handbook Was Generated With ChatGPT, Doesn’t Have Anti-Harassment Policy

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI demoed its new ChatGPT AI's ability to adapt to what it "sees" through the user's camera, allowing it to help a solve math problem.

New ChatGPT AI Watches Through Your Camera, Offers Advice on What It Sees

By Victor Tangermann

Yet another OpenAI executive has been caught lacking on camera when asked if the Sora video generator was trained using YouTube videos.

Another OpenAI Executive Choked When Asked If Sora Was Trained on YouTube Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

An OpenAI safety worker quit his job, arguing in an online forum that he had lost confidence that the Sam Altman-led company will "behave responsibly around the time of [artificial general intelligence]," the theoretical point at which an AI can outperform a human.

OpenAI Safety Worker Quit Due to Losing Confidence Company “Would Behave Responsibly Around the Time of AGI”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" like erotica and gore.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for “Personal Use”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The founder of the dating app Bumble believes the future of dating will involve having your personal AI talk to hundreds of other AIs.

Artificial Intelligence

Bumble Founder Says Future of Dating Is Your AI Will Date Other People’s AIs and Hook You Up With the Best Matches

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI Mocked for Issuing Infringement Claim Over Its Logo While Scraping the Entire Web to Train AI Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google employees have been pretty down as of late amid massive layoffs — but according to the company's C-suite, the beatings won't continue.

Google Execs Say Employees Will Be Rewarded for Huge Profits With Fewer Layoffs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users are protesting the OpenAI partnership by attempting to edit or delete their own posts, only to get banned by Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow Bans Users for Protesting Against It Selling Their Answers to OpenAI as Training Data

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has trained a massive new generative AI model — which is entirely disconnected from the internet.

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Microsoft Deploys Powerful New AI Completely Disconnected From the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI, the maker of DALL-E and ChatGPT, is leaving the door open for its AI models to be used to produce NSFW content.

OpenAI Exploring How to Make AI-Generated Porn

By Jon Christian

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

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Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI bubble isn't bursting just yet, but one insightful Nvidia investor is starting to see the forest for the trees.

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Billionaire Cuts Investment in Nvidia, Says AI May Be Overhyped

By Noor Al-Sibai

The service Character.AI is used by millions of young people to interact with AI versions of their favorite characters.

Artificial Intelligence

Lonely Teens Are Making “Friends” With AIs

By Frank Landymore

Katy Perry was in the studio the night of the Met Gala — but if you were fooled by AI photos of her there, you're not alone.

Artificial Intelligence

Even Katy Perry’s Mom Was Fooled by that AI Pic of Her at the Met Gala

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is said to be building an OpenAI competitor despite its multi-billion-dollar partnership with the firm.

Microsoft Reportedly Building a GPT-4 Competitor Despite $10 Billion OpenAI Partnership

By Noor Al-Sibai

Warren Buffett, one of American finance's biggest moguls, saw an AI deepfake of himself that seems to have freaked him out.

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Warren Buffett Saw An AI That Scared Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over a decade after suffering a stroke, country music star Randy Travis has released a song that features an AI-generated clone of his voice.

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Country Star Who Can’t Sing After Stroke Releases New Song Using AI

By Victor Tangermann