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We caught up with fired Google engineer and AI ethicist Blake Lemoine to chat about the AI industry, Google, and more.

We Interviewed the Engineer Google Fired for Saying Its AI Had Come to Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Joe Russo, a director who's helmed some of Marvel's biggest movies, thinks it's only a matter of time before AIs can make legit films.

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Marvel Director Expects Fully AI-Generated Movies Within Two Years

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI seems worried about its competitors using "GPT" in the name of their chatbots, and has tried to fast-track the trademark process.

OpenAI, Which Has “Open” in Its Name, Is Trying to Trademark “GPT”

By Frank Landymore

A mind-bending, AI-generated pizza restaurant commercial for a franchise called Pepperoni Hug Spot is seriously messing with our brains.

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Behold This Nauseating AI-Generated Pizza Commercial

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is, as he has repeatedly said in public, very, very excited about the AI future that his company is ushering in.

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Bill Gates Says AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read in 18 Months

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon sellers are using tools like ChatGPT to flood the e-commerce platform with AI-generated reviews. Here's how to spot them.

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These Five Words Can Help You Tell If a Review Was Written By AI

By Victor Tangermann

The Republican National Committee has fired back after Biden announced he's running again with an ad that features AI-generated images.

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Republicans Release AI-Generated Ad of Chinese Invasion

By Victor Tangermann

Snapchat users seem to really, really hate the app's new AI feature, "My AI" — and they're taking to the app star to let the company know.

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Furious Users Demand Removal of AI From Snapchat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Any AI chatbots operating within China's digital borders must comply with its censorship laws — a bar that may prove impossible for the unpredictable tech.

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China Says Chatbots Must Be Strictly Censored by Communist Guidelines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experimental artist and futurist Claire "Grimes" Boucher is looking at AI as an opportunity and is willing to split royalties for songs that use her voice.

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Grimes Says She’ll Split Royalties With Anyone Who Deepfakes Her Voice Into a Song

By Victor Tangermann

Teachers are reportedly using ChatGPT to write AI-assisted letters of recommendation — which are apparently good enough to win Cambridge scholarships.

ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pro-tip for editors: do not, under any circumstance, publish an AI-generated "interview" with someone you didn't actually interview.

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Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity

By Noor Al-Sibai

It appears that horny ChatGPT users are becoming increasingly skilled at crafting detailed prompts that quickly cook up AI-generated porn.

Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT's immense popularity and power make it eye-wateringly expensive to maintain, The Information reports, with OpenAI paying up to $700,000 a day.

Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day

By Frank Landymore

Anxious about AI taking your job? Per a new BBC report, you're not alone — and frankly, automation worries aren't exactly far-fetched.

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A New Fear Is Spreading: AI Anxiety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A published YA author recommended up and comers use ChatGPT to critique your writing. We're here to tell you that this is a bad, bad idea.

Your Brain Will Melt When You Hear How This Author Is Using ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

Universal Music Group is pissed about AI, and it's already taken down a viral voice clone of "Drake" and "the Weeknd." This is likely only the beginning.

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Drake’s Label Is Still Absolutely Furious About That AI-Generated Song

By Frank Landymore

Over the weekend, Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, took to Twitter to proclaim that humans are hardwired for either "dominance or submission."

Meta’s Head of AI Has Some Interesting Beliefs About Dominance and Submission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a viral leaked video, Clearlink CEO James Clark told his writers that they should use AI to put out "30 to 50 times" more content than they do now.

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Media CEO Says Writers Should Be Using AI to Churn Out “30-50 Times” More Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff.

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Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Reddit has announced that it will start charging a premium for AI companies that scrape all of its data to train their models.

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Reddit Demands Payments for AI Trained on Its Users

By Victor Tangermann

ChaosGPT — the AI agent tasked with destroying humanity — was foiled again this week when its Twitter account was suspended. Another win for humans?

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Twitter Suspends the AI Trying to Destroy Humanity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's no secret that AIs like ChatGPT require insane amounts of energy — but as a new paper reveals, they also seem to use an absurd amount of water, too.

ChatGPT Is Consuming a Staggering Amount of Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk Says He’s Building a “Maximum Truth-Seeking AI”

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Elon Musk Says He’s Building a “Maximum Truth-Seeking AI”

By Frank Landymore

Google asked around 80,000 of its employees to test its still-unreleased Bard AI chatbot before it released it to the public last month, Bloomberg reports.

Google Staff Warned Its AI Was a “Pathological Liar” Before They Released It Anyway

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta-formerly-Facebook will lay off another 10,000 of the company's still-standing employees.

Facebook Is Getting Slammed by Another Round of Brutal Cuts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

German tabloid Die Aktuelle is advertising "the first interview" with F1 legend Michael Schumacher, despite the fact that it was entirely AI generated.

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Fury as Magazine Uses AI to Generate Fake Interview With Michael Schumacher

By Victor Tangermann

In a bombastic interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk made a bold claim about Google co-founder Larry Page that, unfortunately, is kind of believable.

Elon Musk Claims Google Co-Founder Is Building a “Digital God”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Major record label Universal Music Group has forced a song that uses the AI-generated vocals of Drake and The Weeknd to be taken offline.

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Furious Record Label Gets AI-Generated Drake Song Deleted

By Victor Tangermann

German artist Boris Eldagsen, who recently won a prestigious photography competition with a stunning black and white portrait, is now refusing the award after admitting the image was generated using an AI image generator, The Guardian reports.

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Guy Admits That His Prize-Winning “Photo” Was Actually Generated Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned audiences in a 60 Minutes interview on CBS that AI will drastically disrupt society as we know it.

Google CEO Warns Earthlings to Brace for AI Impact

By Frank Landymore

Each iteration of OpenAI's GPT has been way bigger than the last. But the era of simply scaling up AIs may already be at an end, according to Sam Altman.

CEO of OpenAI Says Making Models Bigger Is Already Played Out

By Frank Landymore

We can now, apparently, add the CEO of the Google-owned DeepMind to the list of machine learning researchers who think AI might gain self-awareness.

Google DeepMind CEO Says AI May Become Self-Aware

By Noor Al-Sibai

Like a human possessed, an AI made by Google appears to know things it wasn't trained to learn — and yeah, it's freaking us out.

Google Surprised When Experimental AI Learns Language It Was Never Trained On

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of Stanford students have come up with a pair of smart glasses that can display the output of OpenAI's GPT-4 chatbot.

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New Smart Glasses Tell You What to Say on Dates Using GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter from Kuwait News.

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Media Outlet Shows Off AI-Powered News Presenter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A serial AI investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes will become "god-like."

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Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are reportedly taking away work from China-based videogame artists and illustrators.

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AI Is Already Putting Videogame Illustrators Out of Work in China

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Criminals used an AI to clone the voice of the 15-year-old girl to fake a kidnapping, and tried to get her mother to pay a ransom.

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Mom Says Creeps Used AI to Fake Daughter’s Kidnapping

By Victor Tangermann

ChaosGPT — that autonomous, open-source AI agent tasked to "destroy humanity" — is still working hard to bring about the end of our species.

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AI Tasked With Destroying Humanity Now Trying New Tactic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Insider has given its reporters the green light to use OpenAI's ChatGPT for its reporting. That green light, however, came with a laundry list of warnings.

Major News Site Warns ChatGPT Is Inaccurate, Announces Plans to Use It Anyway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the world's foremost futurists is arguing that some AI chatbots exhibit glimpses of sentience — but that doesn't mean they're fully conscious yet.

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Nick Bostrom Says AI Chatbots May Have Some Degree of Sentience

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to finance professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira, large language models like ChatGPT could be used to forecast stock prices.

Finance Professor Claims ChatGPT Can Predict Stock Performance

By Victor Tangermann

According to a survey conducted by Stanford University, 36 percent of AI researchers believe that AI could cause "nuclear-level catastrophe." Great.

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A Third of Researchers Think that AI Could Cause a Nuclear-Level Catastrophe

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group calling themselves the "overemployed" are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, Vice reports.

Grifters Using ChatGPT to Work Multiple Full-Time Jobs at Once

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports.

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Elon Musk Buys Ten Thousand GPUs for Secretive AI Project

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers let 25 artificial intelligence-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than one might expect.

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Researchers Let 25 AI Bots Loose Inside a Virtual Town. The Results Were Fascinating.

By Victor Tangermann

An AI artist has imagined what Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos would look like if they lived in slums — and honestly, the images go kind of hard.

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AI Shows What Mark Zuckerberg Would Look Like Living in Poverty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another day, another AI bro looking to defeat death — and almost certainly looking to monetize your grief via AI algorithms in the process.

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Tech Guy Changes Mind About Emulating Dead Parents After Watching “Black Mirror” Episode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Years after shutting down its robotics division, OpenAI is now back in the game after raising funding for Norwegian robotics company 1X.

Oh God… OpenAI Is Working on a Humanoid Robot

By Frank Landymore

Folks have begun using AI image generators to make porn of people who don't exist — and it seems to be a seller's market.

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People Are Actually Selling AI-Generated Nudes on Reddit

By Noor Al-Sibai

A user instructed an autonomous AI agent, dubbed ChaosGPT, to destroy humanity. Though the bot gave the mission its darndest, it didn't quite work out.

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Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the UK's terrorism watchdogs is warning that human society may soon start to witness AI-assisted — or even AI-propogated — terrorism.

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UK Appointee Warns Rogue AIs Could Recruit Terrorists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech workers got paid six-figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoard talent.

People Are Tricking a ChatGPT Competitor Into Talking Dirty

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Columbia law scholar has joined the OpenAI chat — and he's got some pretty start warnings about ChatGPT's legal liability.

Scholar Warns That ChatGPT’s Legal Issues Are a “Ticking Time Bomb”

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Australian mayor may sue OpenAI over ChatGPT-generated defamation, after the AI chatbot told users that he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.

OpenAI Threatened With Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Defamation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It might be gone by now, but if you use Google Pay, you might've received some free dinero that you'll want to cash out sooner than rather than later.

Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money

By Frank Landymore

Stability AI, a startup that helped develop popular open-source image generator Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble, Semafor reports.

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The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company has AI search products in the work, with aspirations of integrating chatbot functionality into its Google Search.

Google CEO Says It’s Adding AI to Search

By Frank Landymore

Universal Music Group just issued a copyright takedown notice to a YouTuber, who created an AI-generated song about kittens using Eminem's voice.

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Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — which is becoming a big problem for the journalism industry.

Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Cornell University created an AI that is a lot more transparent about the medical literature it cites, earning praise from doctors using it.

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New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

By Frank Landymore

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.

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Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has falsely accused at least one person of sexual assault and made up fake news articles to back it up — and yes, we're very afraid.

ChatGPT Falsely Accuses Law Professor of Sexual Assault

By Noor Al-Sibai