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AI chatbot company Replika has reinstated the ability for users to have sexually charged conversations with its AI-based avatars, Reuters reports.

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Replika Users Rejoice! Erotic Roleplay Is Back in AI-Powered App

By Victor Tangermann

An AI enthusiast wrote a few bars in the style of Kanye West and, using a clone of the artist's voice, recorded an apology track to the Jewish people.

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AI Bro Drops Freakishly Real-Sounding Kanye West Apology Track

By Noor Al-Sibai

Geoffrey Hinton recently shared his thoughts on the state of AI in an interview with CBS. While enthusiastic about AI's progress, he's also urging caution.

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Godfather of AI Says There’s a Minor Risk It’ll Eliminate Humanity

By Frank Landymore

Little love has been lost lately between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI, a company he co-founded but later abandoned due to what he says were ideological differences.

CEO of OpenAI Says Elon Musk’s Mean Comments Have Hurt Him

By Victor Tangermann

To the shock of absolutely no one, it turns out that those images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes.

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That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Federal Trade Commission published a consumer alert warning the public of voice cloning scams, which seem to be on the rise.

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FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money

By Frank Landymore

A 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue.

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AI Company With Zero Revenue Raises $150 Million

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk reportedly tried to takeover as OpenAI's CEO back in 2018. But when the rest of the company's board allegedly vetoed his proposal, he walked away.

Elon Musk Reportedly Tried to Take Over OpenAI Several Years Ago, But Failed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR technology and a vocal critic of Silicon Valley, sat down in an interview with The Guardian to air out his musings on AI.

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VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane

By Frank Landymore

The triple-A video game developer has unveiled its new "Ghostwriter" tool, which in theory will save writers the extra effort of writing a zillion "barks."

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Ubisoft Develops Tool to Crank Out Video Game Dialogue Using AI

By Frank Landymore

An app called CupidBots uses AI to automate swiping and flirting on various dating apps, and is specifically tailored to target women.

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Meet CupidBot, the Horrifying Dating App Using AI to Harass Women

By Frank Landymore

While testing Google's Bard AI, the editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware discovered that the chatbot plagiarized an answer from his site.

Google’s Bard AI Credibly Accused of Plagiarizing Without Credit

By Frank Landymore

Trump decided to take to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Thursday to post an almost certainly AI-generated image of himself kneeling to pray.

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Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft AI scientists believe that the OpenAI-built GPT-4 has shown "sparks" of near-human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, in the Justice Department's legal battles against Google over monopoly concerns, Google's AI-powered Bard chatbot is siding with the government.

Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows

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Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows

By Frank Landymore

Experts asked GPT-4 100 leading prompts about conspiracy theories — and, shockingly, the chatbot didn't push back against any of them.

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Researchers Find GPT-4 Is Significantly Less Accurate Than GPT-3

By Noor Al-Sibai

The latest Big Tech chatbot, the Bard AI by Google, just dropped, and there seems to be something kind of funny going on with it.

Something Extremely Goofy Happens When You Ask Google’s Bard AI To Generate Images

By Noor Al-Sibai

With a silly name and an even sillier startup cost, Stanford's Alpaca ChatGPT clone costs only $600 and shows how easy OpenAI's may be to replicate.

Stanford Scientists Pretty Much Cloned OpenAI’s GPT for a Measly $600

By Noor Al-Sibai

Unfortunately, much like ChatGPT, Stanford's Alpaca AI proved to be a lean, mean, misinformation machine that was too costly to maintain.

Stanford Pulls Down ChatGPT Clone After Safety Concerns

By Frank Landymore

The Google-made, AI-powered Bard chatbot is already spouting disinformation with shocking ease — and supporting those conspiracies with fake news sources.

Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jackson Greathouse Fall has gone viral for his stunt of using ChatGPT to make all his business decisions, garnering modest investment.

Man Starts Business With Only $100 By Doing What ChatGPT Tells Him

By Frank Landymore

People are using AI-generated images of Donald Trump getting arrested by the NYPD before it actually happens, because that's the world we live in now.

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People Keep Posting Phony AI-Generated Images of Trump Getting Arrested

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's ChatGPT was down last night due to a glitch that made chat histories publicly visible, while another bug may have also compromised user emails.

ChatGPT Bug Accidentally Revealed Users’ Chat Histories, Email Addresses, and Phone Numbers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Concerned about OpenAI and the implications of its powerful AI tech? Fair, but CEO Sam Altman says you should probably focus your worry on its competition.

OpenAI CEO Warns That Competitors Will Make AI That’s More Evil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A peer-review process accepted a research paper written entirely by OpenAI's ChatGPT — without ever realizing that an AI program penned the paper.

Researchers Reveal That Paper About Academic Cheating Was Generated Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Midjourney's latest V5 update has got hands almost nailed down. Now, it'll take more sleuthing to tell if an image of a person is AI generated or not.

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Watch Out, Folks: AI Image Generators Can Do Hands Now

By Frank Landymore

If you need random numbers generated, steer clear of ChatGPT. Unless you want responses to be less random and more poisoned by human preferences, that is.

ChatGPT Is Hilariously Bad at Generating Random Numbers

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has announced its GPT-4-powered Copilot is coming to its suite of Office 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

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Microsoft’s Stunning Copilot AI Demo Could Change Office Work Forever

By Victor Tangermann

We're not in favor of any jobs going solely to robots. But if any jobs should be automated, it should probably be those of the CEOs.

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The Numbers Are In: Replacing All CEOs With AI Just Makes Sense

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI, hasn't shied away from expressing his disdain (or horror) over the company's newfound direction and success.

Elon Musk Is Super Pissed OpenAI Became Successful After He Left

By Frank Landymore

The OpenAI-powered Bing AI chat feature is now open for general use. But it may or may not be a glitch on Microsoft's behalf.

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Uh Oh: Bing’s Deranged AI Chat Is Now Open for Anyone to Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With OpenAI's GPT-4, things "can get super-dangerous very quickly, without people monitoring them," Lightning AI CEO William Falcon told Venture Beat.

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AI CEO on GPT-4: This Can Get “Super-Dangerous Very Quickly”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.

Microsoft Laid Off Its Entire AI “Ethics and Society” Division

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Uh Oh, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI just revealed GPT-4, the next-gen version of its Large Language Model (LLM) tech. It seems impressive, but reportedly still has flaws.

OpenAI’s Next-Generation AI Is About to Demolish Its Competition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.

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Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.

General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars

By Frank Landymore

Art lovers are understandably peeved at an art exhibit in The Hague after one artist used AI to recreate Veermeer's masterpiece "Girl With a Pearl Earring."

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Lazy Artists Use AI to Rip Off Famous Dutch Painting for Museum Exhibition

By Noor Al-Sibai

A German Microsoft executive, for some reason, is claiming that OpenAI will drop GPT-4, its follow-up to the powerful GPT-3, "next week."

Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Noam Chomsky, the world's preeminent linguist, has spoken, and he seems mighty tired of everyone's whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today.

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Noam Chomsky: AI Isn’t Coming For Us All, You Idiots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Humane just raked in $100 million in a Series C funding round, inking Microsoft and OpenAI deals in the process. What are they actually selling, though?

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Company Raises $100M After Announcing Shift to AI, But Has No Discernible Product

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's new artificial intelligence model for researchers and governments has been leaked — and naturally, it ended up on 4chan.

Facebook’s Powerful ChatGPT Competitor Leaks on 4Chan

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.

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Scientists Want to Use AI to Hunt for Aliens on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Those machine "hallucinations" that Large Language Models (LLM) are known for? According to one AI leader, they're just alternate realities, actually.

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Stable Diffusion CEO Suggests AI Is Peering Into Alternate Realities

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"They were all dumb as a rock," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, told the FT last month, speaking to digital assistants like Cortana, Siri, and Alexa.

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Microsoft CEO Trashes Siri and Alexa for Being “Dumb as a Rock”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Salesforce is bringing OpenAI's ChatGPT to Slack, yet another sign that the compulsively lying and hallucinating AI assistant is becoming inescapable.

ChatGPT Is Coming to Slack Because We Live and Work in Hell

By Victor Tangermann

According to a report from CNBC, the Google-built Bard is a total and complete mess, and no one really seems to know what to actually do with the AI tech.

Chaos Inside Google as Execs Try to Figure Out How to Actually Use AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering if artificial intelligence (AI) will be taking your job? A fair question — and one that a group of professors may have just shed some light on.

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These Are the Jobs Most Vulnerable to AI, Researchers Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.

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Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

By Simon Spichak

If or when AIs becomes conscious, they're going to need rights, a pair of theorists argue — and the outcomes available to us aren't that great.

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Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the “Conscious” AIs of the Future

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a PETA exposé revealed the gruesome conditions behind coconut milk in Thailand, the HelloFresh meal kit company will no longer source from there.

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HelloFresh Halting Thai Coconut Milk Sales Over Monkey Labor Allegations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is secretly hiding a "Celebrity" mode in its new AI feature which can impersonate celebrities in its answers, with mixed results.

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Secret Bing AI Feature Allows It to Impersonate Celebrities

By Victor Tangermann

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.

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Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

By Frank Landymore

Impressed by OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT? Cool, but the folks over at OpenAI aren't really sure why. To them, it's old news.

OpenAI Confused by Why People Are So Impressed With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Elon Musk, the king of the bad take, occasionally gets it right when it comes to AI.

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Elon Musk Roasts Dudes Pivoting From Crypto to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, Chinese military researchers say that their AI-powered fighter pilot has bested a human in a real-life aerial dogfight.

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AI Pilot Crushes Human Dogfight Rival in 90 Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI chatbot trend has given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which, unlike coding, involves simply speaking to these chatbots.

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Get a Load of This New Job: “Prompt Engineers” Who Act as Psychologists to AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

Meet Ion, Romania's "new honorary advisor," who is worryingly in charge of surveilling and interpreting the opinions of its citizens.

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Prime Minister of European Country Names AI as Advisor

By Frank Landymore

Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.

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CNET’s Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots.

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Bank of America Obsessed With AI, Says It’s the “New Electricity”

By Noor Al-Sibai