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A team of resaerchers at a Berkeley-based startup called Profulent claim to have used generative AI technologies to edit human DNA.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Uses AI to Edit Human DNA

By Victor Tangermann

AI image generators that claim the ability to "undress" celebrities are nothing new — but now, they've been spotted in Instagram ads, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Instagram Is Profiting Off Disgusting Apps That Undress People Without Their Consent

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a recent report, China's data centers could soon consume more water than all of South Korea, in large part thanks to AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Report: Thanks to AI, China’s Data Centers Will Drink More Water Than All of South Korea by 2030

By Victor Tangermann

A diss track featuring the apparent vocals of rapper Kendrick Lamar made its rounds on social media earlier this week.

Artificial Intelligence

Internet Fooled by AI-Generated Kendrick Lamar Diss Track

By Victor Tangermann

Meet AngryGF, an AI chatbot-powered girlfriend app that bullies users into learning better communication skills.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Girlfriend Constantly Yells at You in Perpetual Fury

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta is eating crow after Facebook's algorithm flagged nearly two dozen posts from the Auschwitz Museum as problematic or offensive.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Says Sorry Its AI Flagged Auschwitz Museum Posts as Offensive

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netflix is looking to double down on the use of AI to tell stories — but whether it has any actual plan beyond a bunch of buzzwords remains unclear.

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix CEO Says AI Is “Storytelling” Tool as Controversy Rages Over Company’s AI Use in “True Crime” Documentary

By Victor Tangermann

X owner Elon Musk's AI chatbot and low-brow dad joke generator Grok is accusing NBA star Klay Thompson of throwing bricks.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s AI Publicly Accuses NBA Player of Criminal Vandalism

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix True Crime Producer Responds to AI Allegations in “What Jennifer Did” Documentary

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix True Crime Producer Responds to AI Allegations in “What Jennifer Did” Documentary

By Victor Tangermann

A report from Nieman Labs reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI in its newsroom.

Artificial Intelligence

Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For months now, the company behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generator has been falling apart — and now, it's conducting mass layoffs.

Artificial Intelligence

Maker of Stable Diffusion Conducts Mass Layoffs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The fake James Bond trailer uses a mix of AI-generated imagery and footage taken from other Henry Cavill movies.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Trailer for James Bond Starring Henry Cavill Gets 2.5 Million Views

By Frank Landymore

AI chatbots are trying, apparently, to be just like us — but in the case of Meta-formerly-Facebook, those attempts are uncanny as heck.

Meta’s AI Is Telling Users It Has a Child

By Noor Al-Sibai

A24 released a series of realistic apocalyptic scenes on Instagram promoting the Civil War movie, but the images are AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

A24 Admits Those Ads for “Civil War” Were AI-Generated

By Sharon Adarlo

By paying Amazon for lock screen ads, the AI-generated book scammers intend to make money by abusing the Kindle Unlimited program.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Taking Spammers’ Money to Serve Ads for AI-Generated Books on Kindle Lock Screens

By Frank Landymore

A new report from AND Digital reveals that nearly half of the surveyed CEOs believe that AI could replace their jobs.

Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Suddenly Fear AI Will Take Their Jobs Too

By Frank Landymore

After decades of cloud seeding, the UAE is insisting that Dubai's historic flooding is not related to its weather modification experiments.

Artificial Intelligence

Government Denies Dubai Flooding Was Due to Cloud-Seeding Experiments

By Noor Al-Sibai

We Apologize for Showing You This Sex Toy That Talks Dirty When It’s Touched

Artificial Intelligence

We Apologize for Showing You This Sex Toy That Talks Dirty When It’s Touched

By Victor Tangermann

TV manufacturer TCL has announced the first-ever, AI-generated romantic comedy called "Next Stop Paris." Literally nobody asked for this.

Artificial Intelligence

The First AI-Generated Romcom Is Coming Out This Summer

By Victor Tangermann

As AI seems to grow more powerful every day, the CEO of Anthropic is saying that soon, it might be self-sustaining and self-replicating.

Anthropic CEO Says That by Next Year, AI Models Could Be Able to “Replicate and Survive in the Wild”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO of Mistral, Europe's brightest new AI firm, is calling bull on the quest for AGI, which he says is akin to the desire to create God.

Artificial Intelligence

Mistral CEO Says AI Companies Are Trying to Build God

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netflix Uses Seemingly AI-Manipulated Images in True Crime Doc

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Uses Seemingly AI-Manipulated Images in True Crime Doc

By Victor Tangermann

When witnessing the sorry state of men addicted to AI girlfriends, one Miami tech exec began seeing dollar signs instead of red flags.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA.) signed up for a master's degree program in machine learning at George Mason University.

Machine Learning

Congressman Getting Master’s Degree in Machine Learning So He Can Make Well-Informed Laws About AI

By Sharon Adarlo

A resourceful hacker cloned the voice of LastPass' CEO to try to dupe one of its employees — but they were not successful.

Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass for Attack

By Noor Al-Sibai

After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public.

OpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI and Meta are reportedly about to release new AI models that achieve important milestones towards achieving AGI.

OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

And after months of testing, the review embargo for Humane's mysterious AI "Pin" finally lifted — and it sounds like a nightmare to use.

Artificial Intelligence

Humane’s AI “Pin” Is a $700 Flaming Dumpster Fire

By Victor Tangermann

The proposed law would require businesses to disclose a list of all the copyrighted content they used in a training data set for any models.

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Force AI Companies to Reveal Copyrighted Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

The humans behind the accounts of "virtual influencers" are pasting their faces onto the bodies of real models and sex workers.

Artificial Intelligence

Those “AI Influencers” Are Deepfaking Fake Faces Onto Real Women’s Bodies Without Permission

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that advanced AI models are pretty good at playing dumb — which might have massive implications as they get smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Pretend To Be Stupider Than It Really Is, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

German artist Mathias Vef and designer Benedikt Groß have created a "deepfake camera" that can immediately undress its subjects.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Camera Takes Pictures of People But Instantly Makes Them Naked

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is predicting that we will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2026.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Says That Within Two Years, AI Will Be “Smarter Than the Smartest Human”

By Victor Tangermann

Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As AI companies start running out of training data, many are looking into synthetic data — but it remains unclear whether it will work.

Artificial Intelligence

What Is Synthetic Data? Why AI Trained on AI Is the Next Big Thing (and Problem)

By Noor Al-Sibai

An alleged law firm has been caught sending out link-back requests — and it appears that the "firm" and its "lawyers" do not exist.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone’s Sending Out Legal Threats From Fake, AI-Generated “Lawyers”

By Noor Al-Sibai

That new STI-detecting AI app apparently failed to detect a really bad case of syphilis — and gave a dick cake a clean bill of health.

Artificial Intelligence

AI App That Claims to Detect STIs in Photos Offers Confident Diagnosis of Penis-Shaped Cake

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the New York Times reports, OpenAI trained its GPT-4 large language model (LLM) with over a million hours of transcribed YouTube videos.

OpenAI Secretly Trained GPT-4 With More Than a Million Hours of Transcribed YouTube Videos

By Victor Tangermann

Google is set on infusing AI into search. What does that mean for the ad model that brings in the majority of the search giant's revenue?

Google Accidentally Admits Something Very Funny About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is big mad that OpenAI keeps trying to poach Tesla engineers — so instead, he's poaching them himself.

Elon Musk Is Poaching Tesla Engineers for xAI. Wait, What?

By Noor Al-Sibai

An official New York City chatbot has been telling business owners and landlords to break the law, but Mayor Eric Adams defended the tech.

Artificial Intelligence

NYC Mayor Defends AI System That Tells Business Owners to Commit Wage Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple has allegedly set its sights on home robots — and is said to be in the early stages of developing one that follows you around the house.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Secretly Working on AI Robot That Follows You Around The House

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's AI image generator Imagine is having a lot of trouble, well, imagining an Asian person posing for the camera alongside a white person.

Meta’s AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White Women

By Victor Tangermann

As the Financial Times reports, the company is considering putting premium AI search services behind a subscription paywall.

Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results

By Victor Tangermann

The duo that used AI to make a fake George Carlin special have deleted the video months after being sued by the late comedian's estate.

Artificial Intelligence

Amid Lawsuit, Creators of AI-Powered “George Carlin Comedy Special” Agree to Delete It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Comedian and late-night TV legend Jon Stewart has had enough of AI industry leaders salivating over replacing human workers with AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Jon Stewart Skewers AI Industry for Salivating Over Replacing Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta-formerly-Facebook is bleeding its top AI leaders, with at least three executives leaving the company in March alone.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researchers Keep Leaving Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its “AI” Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors

By Victor Tangermann

In response to a lawsuit, Google is going to delete billions of data points from users who browsed on Chrome's Incognito mode.

Good News, Sickos! Google Says It’s Deleting Records of Your Incognito Searches

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI companies are swiftly running into a massive problem: there isn't enough data on the internet to train the next generation of models.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Running Out of Training Data After Burning Through Entire Internet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google's SGE search engine is still spitting out incorrect answers.

Google’s AI Still Giving Idiotic Answers Nearly a Year After Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis likened the hype shrouding the AI gold rush to that of the crypto industry's high-dollar funding race.

CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CEOs at appliance companies want to put AI in your oven and other household items in order to make them smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

Crazed CEOs Adding AI to Home Appliances

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.

Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI

By Jon Christian

For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI’s $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake

By Jon Christian

An official New York City chatbot designed to help business owners navigate city law apparently knows very little about said laws.

Artificial Intelligence

Official NYC Chatbot Encouraging Small Businesses to Break the Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As investors are pouring billions of dollars into AI companies, analysts are starting to become wary of an "AI bubble" that's forming.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Concerned by Signs of AI Bubble

By Victor Tangermann

The Daily Beast reports that Boston University suggested its professors should use AI to replace the work of striking graduate students.

Artificial Intelligence

University Leadership Suggest Using AI to Replace Striking Grad Students

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report reveals the chaos behind the startup Stability AI, including an incident where its now-ex CEO disappeared in his pajamas.

Artificial Intelligence

Stability AI CEO Disappeared in His Pajamas in Bizarre Incident

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gay dating platform Grindr is betting big on generative AI, and is working on an AI chatbot you can have sexually explicit chats with.

Artificial Intelligence

Grindr Working on Chatbot You Can Sext With

By Victor Tangermann

As hype and investment in AI soars, some businesses are learning that the technology isn't reliable enough to represent their companies.

Artificial Intelligence

Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks

By Frank Landymore

The NYPD is back at it again, wasting taxpayer dollars on AI metal detectors for the subway in its latest effort to look busy.

NYPD Purchases Expensive AI Metal Detectors That May or May Not Actually Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

An endless AI-generated "Family Guy" show on YouTube called "AI Peter" has devolved into ear-bruising chaos.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered “Family Guy” Stream Devolves Into Endless Screaming

By Victor Tangermann

Venture capitalists are balking at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sky-high aspirations and are seemingly starting to become disillusioned.

VC Slams Sam Altman as “Megalomaniac”

By Victor Tangermann