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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

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man has written almost 100 books using AI and claims he has "sold 574 books for a total of nearly $2,000 between August and May."

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Man Uses AI to Write 97 Terrible Books, Sells $2,000 Worth

By Sharon Adarlo

Former President Donald Trump is making it clear that he won't be shying away from AI-generated content during the 2024 election cycle.

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Trump Shares AI Voice-Cloned Fake Video of Anderson Cooper

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.

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CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Seance AI says that its tech will help the grieving find closure. It's not a happy story. But again, they never really are.

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AI Company Says It’ll Perform a Seance on Your Dead Loved Ones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Buzzfeed, Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti just laid out his new AI vision — and it sounds like a plagiarized, choose-your-own-adventure content farm.

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BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of South Korean researchers has created an AI model dubbed DarkBERT to index the Dark Web's websites and forums.

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Scientists Train New AI Exclusively on the Dark Web

By Victor Tangermann

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Professor Falsely Accuses Students of Cheating Because ChatGPT Told Him To

By Noor Al-Sibai

Surveillance technology, including facial recognition software, reportedly has an outsized presence in public housing projects.

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Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the government should regulate AI and create common guidelines.

OpenAI CEO to Congress: Please Regulate Me, Daddy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Irish Times just apologized for publishing an AI-generated hoax article — bylined by an entirely fake AI-generated "journalist," no less.

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Newspaper Apologizes for Accidentally Running Deranged AI-Generated Article

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Fanfiction writers realized an OpenAI-powered writing assistant app was suddenly spitting out incredibly specific erotic fiction.

ChatGPT Happy to Write Smut About Freakishly Obscure Sex Act

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is raising $100 million for his startup that scans eyeballs and gives out crypto.

OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million to Scan Every Eyeball on Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google employees reportedly played a drinking game during the company's I/O developer conference last week, mocking executives mentioning AI.

Google Employees Mock Execs for Saying “AI” Over and Over

By Victor Tangermann

He might not helm Google anymore, but Eric Schmidt is absolutely still thinking like a tech CEO when it comes to AI.

Ex-Google CEO Says We Should Trust AI Industry to Self-Regulate

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race to, well, anyone.

Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to be very confused as to why anyone might suggest that some AIs may replace human labor.

Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BuzzFeed has told investors that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-built quizzes than the traditional ones.

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BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees

By Victor Tangermann

An "AI girlfriend" chatbot has apparently started doing stuff it's not supposed to — stop us if you've heard this one before.

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Creator of Rentable “AI Girlfriend” Says It’s Gone Rogue

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of former OpenAI researchers have built their own AI chatbot -- and, provocatively, they're trying to give it a conscience.

OpenAI Competitor Says Its Chatbot Has a Rudimentary Conscience

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google just revealed vision for AI-integrated search — and that vision, apparently, involves cutting digital publishers off at the knees.

Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they were wiped out by superhuman AI.

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Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying “Great Filter”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scammer claims to have made thousands of dollars by selling "leaked" tracks by Frank Ocean that were actually generated by an AI.

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Leaked Frank Ocean Tracks Were Actually AI-Generated Fakes

By Victor Tangermann

Spotify has taken down "tens of thousands," or roughly seven percent of songs uploaded by AI music startup Boomy.

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Spotify Busts Network of Bots Listening to Bot-Generated Music

By Noor Al-Sibai

CarynAI is the digital extension of 23-year-old influencer Caryn Marjorie, who created a virtual version of herself with the help of an AI.

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Influencer Creates AI Version of Herself That You Can Rent as a Girlfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wendy's is the latest fast-food chain to get in on the AI craze with its announcement about chatbots that will take customer orders.

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Wendy’s Installing Drive-Thru AI Chatbot That Takes Your Order

By Noor Al-Sibai

Generative AI-powered tools are making it easy to create deepfakes — and lawyers are trying to seize the moment as an opportunity.

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Reality Is Melting as Lawyers Claim Real Videos Are Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's finances are all over the place, but one thing is clear — none of the money it spends is going to the workers hired to train ChatGPT.

ChatGPT’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by “Grunts” Making $15 Per Hour

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man that wears a leopard print cowboy hat has a bold prediction: that AI will, in the next few years, replace up to 80 percent of jobs.

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Strangely-Dressed Expert Warns That AI Could Replace 80% of Jobs Soon

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants you to ignore the culture war — and wants you to focus on building safe AGI and fusion instead. As one does.

Sam Altman Says AGI Will Invent Fusion and Make the World Wonderful

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has come out as one of the latest tech industry titans against remote work, which he says harms creativity.

CEO of OpenAI Trashes Remote Work As a Failed “Experiment”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The age of AI arrests appears to have begun in China, where a man who used ChatGPT to allegedly generate fake news headlines was detained.

China Arrests Man for Using ChatGPT to Write Fake News

By Noor Al-Sibai

A stock portfolio picked by ChatGPT outperformed the S&P 500 Index over eight weeks, according to financial comparison service Finder.

ChatGPT Picks Stock Portfolio That Outperforms S&P 500

By Victor Tangermann

Warren Buffett is sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence, which he compared to the invention of the atomic bomb.

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Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Atom Bomb

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's called Hotshot, and from what we can tell, it's basically Bitmoji — but if Bitmoji was a hyperrealistic, AI-powered fever dream.

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New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A guitarist asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to "write a guitar solo" — and the result, as demonstrated in a short clip, didn't disappoint.

ChatGPT Writes Shredding Guitar Solo

By Victor Tangermann

The associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to "late-stage" teens.

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Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Elon Musk-founded research firm that created ChatGPT is apparently hemorrhaging money on the game-changing chatbot that put it on the map

OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

When asked how he feels about AI, Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior didn't hold back, expressing a mix of fascination and concern.

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Snoop Dogg Expresses Views on AI Threat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.

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Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Legislation seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements has already been introduced in Congress.

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Congresswoman Proposes Bill Targeting AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new paper, researchers argue that emergent properties of LLM-powered AIs — widely seen as a step toward AGI — may just be "mirages."

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Glimmers of AGI Are Just an Illusion, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a CNN interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak claimed that a Tesla is "trying to kill you every chance it can."

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Steve Wozniak: If You Want to Learn About AI Killing People, “Get a Tesla”

By Victor Tangermann

A one-time OpenAI researcher is sounding alarm bells about the prospect that artificial intelligence may bring about the end of humanity.

Ex-OpenAI Safety Researcher Says There’s a 20% Chance of AI Apocalypse

By Noor Al-Sibai

Someone created AI-generated Edward Hopper painting — and Google's search featured the image in its algorithmic overview of the artist's work.

Top Google Result for “Edward Hopper” an AI-Generated Fake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In response to the Writer's Guild strike, a guy wants people know to that writing work doesn't matter anymore — ChatGPT can just do it. Nice.

Fury Erupts at Suggestion of Using ChatGPT to Replace Striking Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over 150 African content moderators — whose work has helped to power AI systems at Facebook, TikTok, and OpenAI — have unionized.

OpenAI’s Content Moderators Just Unionized in Africa

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chegg, an online tutoring company that once dominated its industry, is majorly hurting in the wake of ChatGPT.

Online Tutoring Company Stock Crashes as ChatGPT Steamrolls Its Business

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.

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This AI-Generated Beer Commercial Is a Hallucinogenic Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's finally happening — IBM is replacing jobs done by human workers with AI, because we live in employment hell.

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IBM Replacing 7,800 Human Jobs With AI, Including Human Resources

By Noor Al-Sibai

NewsGuard was able to identify 49 content farms producing material appearing to be either mostly or entirely AI-generated.

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Dozens of News Sites are Using AI Chatbots to Churn Out Questionable Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Joshua Browder, the CEO of robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay, allegedly handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI's GPT-4 to save money.

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Man Gives All His Financial Info to AI and Lets It Make Decisions

By Victor Tangermann

A modder has taken advantage of the wonders of ChatGPT to give NPCs in the popular video game Skyrim the ability to come up with new dialogue.

ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue

By Victor Tangermann

Tech investing publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI's Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles, Bloomberg reports.

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VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered neural networks, has suddenly left Google after almost a decade, warning of the dangers of AI.

Godfather of AI Quits Google, Fears AI’s Risks and Regrets His Work

By Frank Landymore

MIT professor Max Tegmark is stressed about the potential impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) — and thinks you should be, too.

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MIT Professor Compares Ignoring AGI to “Don’t Look Up”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

More AI dating tools are cropping up, as dating app users continue to turn to AI to help them get dates. But should romance be automated?

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Cursed New Apps Use AI to Tell You What to Say on Tinder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI has, apparently, opened new doors for psychedelics enthusiasts to show the world the beautiful realms they inhabit when tripping.

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Psychedelics Researcher Enlists AI Artist to Draw Beings They Met While Tripping on DMT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Vogue Italia's upcoming May issue will feature scenery that was instead generated by OpenAI's viral AI image generator, DALL-E 2.

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Vogue Just Used AI-Generated Imagery in a Nightmare Fuel Cover Shoot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook has been playing AI infrastructure catch-up for over a year now.

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Facebook Execs Panicking as They Try to Catch Up in AI Race

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Portopia," an icon of text-based adventures games, got the AI treatment for a new release. The AI made the game borderline unplayable.

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An AI-Powered Videogame Just Came Out and Gamers HATE It

By Frank Landymore