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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

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