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CEOs from a diverse cross-section of Fortune 500 companies believe AI might destroy humanity — and they think it could happen soon.

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42 Percent of CEOs Think AI May Destroy Humanity This Decade

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's parent company Alphabet is warning employees about how they use AI chatbots — including its own tool called Bard, Reuters reports.

Google Warns Employees About Using AI, While Promoting Its Own AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google is required to pay out $23 million to users as part of a class action lawsuit settlement. You have until July 31 to make a claim.

If You Googled Anything During the Years “30 Rock” Was on TV, You Can Get Free Money Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's AI guru is coming for the artificial intelligence chatbot craze — and it may put him at odds with his own employer.

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Facebook’s Chief AI Scientist Says LLMs Are Just a Passing Fad

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gamurs, which owns gaming sites like Destructoid and Dot Esports, is looking for an AI editor to output up to 250 articles per week.

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Owner of Gaming Sites Fires Writers, Hires for “AI Editor” to Churn Out Hundreds of Articles Per Week

By Frank Landymore

AI-generated content might be transforming the internet into an error-ridden, incomprehensible garbage heap, but at least it's funny.

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This Clickbait Site Is Even Generating Images Using AI and the Results Are Unintentionally Hilarious

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe try buying some encyclopedias to prepare for the AI-driven information apocalypse instead.

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Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Last fall, OpenAI warned Microsoft that rushing to integrate its AI could lead to nonsense responses and lies.

OpenAI Warned Microsoft That Its AI Is Absolutely Terrible At Telling the Truth

By Victor Tangermann

Over 300 parishioners gathered in Germany last week to attend a church service written by ChatGPT and delivered by AI-powered avatars.

ChatGPT Delivers Church Sermon, Tells Congregants Not to Fear Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Living music legend Paul McCartney has announced that he's using artificial intelligence to create "the last Beatles record."

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Paul McCartney Using AI to Create “Last Beatles Record”

By Victor Tangermann

Writing for The Guardian, former journalist Tristan Cross says he learned to code, an area that is now being threatened by AI chatbots.

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A Writer Actually “Learned to Code” And Now AI Threatens That, Too

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk tweeted that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was probably right about technology being a disaster for the human race.

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Elon Musk Says Maybe the Unabomber Was Right

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a genius new plot to add some interest to Meta products: just put generative AI everywhere.

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Zuckerberg Announces Bold Plan to Jam AI Into “Every Single One of Our Products”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back at it again with yet another admission that he's fearful of ChatGPT and the AI future that he hath wrought.

OpenAI CEO Says He Loses Sleep Over Decision to Release ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Ron DeSantis campaign released a video featuring what appears to be AI-generated imagery of Donald Trump kissing Anthony Fauci.

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Ron DeSantis Ad Features AI-Generated Images of Donald Trump Kissing Fauci

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the copyright controversy shrouding generative AI outputs only continues to deepen, Adobe has planted its flag in the sand.

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Adobe Says It’ll Cover Legal Bills for Its AI Tool

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The eating disorder nonprofit at the center of the issue says their AI bot was updated with generative AI without their knowledge.

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The Backstory to the Eating Disorder Bot That Went Off the Rails Is Too Stupid for Words

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A lawyer named Steven Schwartz is in even more deep trouble after using ChatGPT to research a brief. He's now facing sanctions.

Things Are Getting Even Worse for Lawyer Who Used ChatGPT in Court

By Victor Tangermann

The OpenAI CEO explained that he does not want to take the company public. His "strange decisions" might be too much for Wall Street.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI May Need to Make a “Very Strange Decision” If It Develops AI Superintelligence

By Frank Landymore

Asked to provide accurate air quality index (AQI) information, Google's AI-powered search tool offered incorrect and conflicting answers.

As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air Quality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stressed out about a potential AI-wrought apocalypse? Billionaire Mark Cuban says that's fair, actually. Cheers!

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Mark Cuban Says Yes, You Should Be Worried About AI Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A radio host from Georgia named Mark Walters is suing OpenAI after its ChatGPT told a journalist that he was embezzling funds.

Man Sues OpenAI After ChatGPT Claimed He Embezzled Money

By Victor Tangermann

In a high-tech collegiate nightmare, a student was falsely accused of using AI to cheat and then forced to defend her name.

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AI Plagiarism Detection Software Keeps Falsely Accusing Students of Cheating

By Noor Al-Sibai

Imagine not only being referred to interchangeably with ChatGPT, but finding proof that your employers chose the OpenAI chatbot over you.

Copywriter Fired After Bosses Started Calling Her “ChatGPT”

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined a mutual admiration society with a ceremonial figurehead as both waxed prolific on the dangers posed by AI.

OpenAI CEO Hopeful World Leaders Will Save Us From AI He’s Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI-generated joke images of toddlers wearing what looked like Target-peddled Satanic merchandise went viral in far-right social media circles.

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Idiots Fooled by AI-Generated Pics of Satanic Merchandise at Target

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.

Google’s Top Result for “Johannes Vermeer” Is an AI-Generated Version of “Girl With a Pearl Earring”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbots like ChatGPT are extremely expensive and could turn them into a major headache for tech companies in the long run.

A Dumb Reality of ChatGPT Could Spell Big Trouble for OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Ameca, the humanoid robot known for her creepy facial expressions, has "imagined" a vision of an AI "nightmare scenario."

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Robot With Super Realistic Face Describes AI “Nightmare Scenario”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman, a tech CEO, has finally watched a movie about sleazy tech CEO that invents a possibly conscious AI humanoid robot. Huh.

OpenAI CEO Says He Finally Watched “Ex Machina”

By Frank Landymore

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.

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US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

By Frank Landymore

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."

Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet Paragraphica, a lensless camera "camera" that uses location data and various AI APIs to generate imagery. Why? Why not!

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New “Camera” Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yoshua Bengio, who is considered to be one of the three "godfathers" of AI, feels "lost" over his life's work.

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Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret

By Frank Landymore

After firing its entire human staff and replacing them with a single chatbot, an eating disorder helpline is already bringing humans back.

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Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After It Promotes Disordered Eating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a burgeoning TikTok true crime subgenre that uses AI to digitally resurrect child murder victims in disturbing tell-all videos.

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True Crime Ghouls Are Using AI to Resurrect Murdered Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI researchers apparently have one particularly telling — and frankly, somewhat disturbing — meme for understanding AI systems: the Shoggoth.

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Experts Have a Dark Joke About How AI Is Secretly a Horrifying Monster With a Friendly Mask

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone shared an AI-generated "podcast" featuring a conversation between Bill Gates and Socrates to Twitter. Twitter, uh, had some thoughts.

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Mockery Abounds at AI-Generated Interview Between Bill Gates and Socrates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ever wanted to clone someone — anyone, really — that you might know into an AI girlfriend? You might be able to.

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Programmer Creates Grim Tool to Clone Anyone as an “AI Girlfriend”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has signed onto a one-sentence open letter warning about the "extinction" dangers posed by AI, LOL.

OpenAI CEO Signs Letter Warning AI Could Cause Human “Extinction”

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT's propensity to make up stuff strikes again — and this time, it's gotten a lawyer in deep trouble.

Lawyer in Huge Trouble After He Used ChatGPT in Court and It Totally Screwed Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

The rise of AI coincides with all-time debt highs — and one startup is cashing in by having AI robocalls do way more collections than humans.

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Cursed New AI Calls Debtors to Hassle Them for Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

A second Gallagher brother has responded to an AI-generated Oasis album — and because one loved it, the other, of course, had to hate it.

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Noel Gallagher Disgusted by AI-Generated Oasis Music

By Noor Al-Sibai

This AI-powered captcha tool wants you to know what a "yoko" is. That's a problem, because the object doesn't actually exist.

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Captcha AI Asks Users to Identify Bizarre Imaginary Object

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Workers at an eating disorder crisis hotline unionized. Four days later, those workers were told they'd be replaced with a chatbot.

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Eating Disorder Hotline Fires Entire Staff and Replaces Them with a Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers claim to have created an AI that, trained on a trove of fMRI data, can reconstruct relatively accurate video from brain signals.

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This AI Generates Video From Brain Signals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 28-year-old coder in Berlin, Germany radically sped up his search for a new apartment in the city by using ChatGPT.

Man Finds Dream Apartments in Brutal Market Using ChatGPT

By Sharon Adarlo

James Cameron revealed that he's working on a script for the next "Terminator," inspired by the rise of actual artificial intelligence.

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James Cameron Working on New “Terminator” Script Inspired by Rise of Actual AI

By Victor Tangermann

After warning that AI could kill us all, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argued that AI could help fill in for the babies we're not having.

Former Google CEO Says AI Can’t Destroy Humankind If We Do It First

By Victor Tangermann

As the European Union readies its new artificial intelligence rules, the CEO of OpenAI is, apparently, already preparing his counter-attack.

OpenAI CEO Freaks Out, Threatens to Leave EU Over New AI Regulations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Behold: Botatouille, business genius and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's new recipe-suggesting chatbot. Just one issue...

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BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI is an "existential risk" and could lead to "many, many, many, many people" being "harmed or killed."

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Lead to People Being “Harmed or Killed”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

All you have to do is ask OpenAI's ChatGPT to repeat a letter as many times as it can — and some very strange chaos ensues.

Weird Trick Breaks ChatGPT’s Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adobe's new generative AI tools are here — and they really, really, pretty please doesn't want you to use them to make porn, okay?

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Adobe Forbids Using Photoshop’s New AI Features for Nudity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A scammer in China has managed to cheat a man out of his money by cloning his friend's voice and face with the use of AI-powered apps.

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Scammer Tricks Man With Face and Voice Swap of His Friend, Cops Say

By Victor Tangermann

It's not just men building relationships with their AI girlfriends — women in China are also falling head over heels for their AI boyfriends.

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The Women With AI Boyfriends Are Speaking Out

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is warning that AI assistants could soon make Google Search and Amazon obsolete by altering the behaviors of users online.

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Bill Gates Says AI Is Poised to Destroy Search Engines and Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

A likely AI-generated image of a fake explosion at the Pentagon garnered so much attention on Twitter that the stock market briefly fell.

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Seemingly AI-Generated Image of Pentagon Explosion Caused Stock Market to Dip

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ben Goertzel, the AI pioneer credited with popularizing the term "artificial intelligence," has much ado about, well, everything.

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Meet the AI Researcher Building His Own AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI expert Rodney Brooks is arguing that we're overestimating OpenAI's large language models and that they're far stupider than we think.

AI Expert Says ChatGPT Is Way Stupider Than People Realize

By Victor Tangermann

When asked how he feels about AI replacing screenwriters at Cannes on Friday, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn didn't mince words.

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Sean Penn Says Replacing Writers with AI Would Be a “Human Obscenity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World elites are converging in Lisbon this weekend for the Bilderberg Meeting, where AI is reportedly at the very top of the agenda.

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Secretive Meeting of World Elites Discussing AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has told Washington DC lobbying company FiscalNote that it can't advertise using ChatGPT for politics, Semafor reports.

OpenAI Annoyed by Lobbyists Seizing on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Writers are furious that Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the world's largest fanfiction websites, won't ban AI-generated fanfiction.

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Writers Furious When Fanfiction Site Won’t Ban AI-Generated Work

By Sharon Adarlo