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Disney has come under fire after a video resurfaced showing horribly CGI-generated background actors in the movie "Prom Pact."
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI “Actors” in Crowd Scene

By Victor Tangermann

An astonishing number of celebrities who signed up to be turned into Meta AI chatbots are, or were, really into cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Artificial Intelligence

The Same Celebrities Who Shilled Crypto Are Now Turning Themselves Into Facebook’s AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

Google set up a secretive Discord server for its most active Bard AI users — but their feedback isn't all positive.
Google

Google Insider Unimpressed by Its Cutting Edge AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

As The Information reports, one unnamed celebrity got as much as $5 million from Meta to be turned into an AI chatbot.
Meta

Facebook Is Paying Celebrities Millions to Turn Them Into Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

The IRS says that Microsoft owes tens of billions of dollars in back taxes — and apparently, the company isn't buying it. 
OpenAI

The IRS Says Microsoft Owes More in Back Taxes Than It Invested in OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the "Godfather of AI," is worried that AI might take over the world one day.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Admits He Fears His Creation Could “Take Over From Humanity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Alex de Vries, a data scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, found that AI companies could soon use as much power as a country worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country

By Victor Tangermann

An analyst from a tech advisory firm said that generative AI is slated for a slowdown next year due to increasing costs.
Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI Is Headed for a Financial “Cold Shower” Next Year, Analyst Predicts

By Sharon Adarlo

Fun's over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized Bing's DALL-E 3-powered AI Image Creator.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing’s Image Generating AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found a sad but unsurprising statistic: that nearly 10% of folks who use AI chatbots are doing so for horny purposes.
Artificial Intelligence

One in Ten Chatbot Users Are Big Time Horndogs, Researchers Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

For more than a decade, cops have tried to use "predictive policing" to presage where crimes will happen — but they seem not to work at all.
Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers from MIT found that subjects, who were "primed" for a specific AI experience almost always ended up having that experience.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Only Useful If You Think They Are, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

If Seekr's AI algorithm is to be believed, The Messenger's reporting isn't all that reliable. Tough foot for a partnership to start on, no?
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, Disney — a company famous for its fierce defense of its IP — doesn't have a squeak to say about AI-generated Terrorist Mickey.
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Has No Comment on Microsoft’s AI Generating Pictures of Mickey Mouse Doing 9/11

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta has started rolling out AI-generated stickers on its Messenger platform, but its half-baked safeguards leave plenty to be desired.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s New AI Stickers Let You Generate Pics of Elon Musk With Boobs

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, a CEO of an e-commerce platform replaced his customer service team with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He has no regrets.
OpenAI

CEO Roasts Human Workers He Fired and Replaced With ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.
Artificial Intelligence

Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid the ongoing SAG strike, Tom Hanks has issued a warning about an AI version of him being used in a dental ad without his consent.
Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Says Someone Used AI to Make an Ad Featuring Him Without His Permission

By Noor Al-Sibai

An actor seems to have given a bizarre explanation for why he liked a bunch of bigoted posts: that AI had something to do with it. 
Artificial Intelligence

Actor Blames AI for Liking Red-Pilled Social Media Posts

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has had it up to here with artificial intelligence used to mimic her father's voice in films.
Artificial Intelligence

Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by Efforts to Bring Her Dad Back With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems scammers who use AI to mimic writers are getting smarter after a journalist found a book that bore a strong resemblance to his own.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Are Using AI to Sell Ripped Off Versions of Other People’s Books

By Noor Al-Sibai

A South Korean judge has for the first time in that country's history sent down a sentence related to AI-generated child abuse images. 
Artificial Intelligence

South Korea Sentences Man for Creating Child Abuse Images Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Writers who are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on their work without permission aren't having any of the AI startup's nonsense.
OpenAI

Suing Writers Seethe at OpenAI’s Excuses in Court

By Frank Landymore

With its ability to spit out entire papers in seconds, ChatGPT might seem like a massive problem to the contract cheating industry.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Could Put People Who Write Essays for Cheating Students Out of Business

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It’s Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

Using artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered thousands of new mysterious "fairy circles" in hundreds of locations.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say They’ve Found Huge Number of Mysterious Circles Around the World

By Victor Tangermann

The French Competition Authority raided Nvidia's local offices this week as part of a probe in its alleged anti-competitive practices.
Artificial Intelligence

France Just Raided the Offices of Nvidia

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes that artificial general intelligence will be able to replace the so-called "median human."
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Legal experts say a copyright lawsuit filed by high-profile authors against OpenAI may have a decent chance at winning.
OpenAI

OpenAI May Be in Big Legal Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

A senior OpenAI employee claimed that using the latest version of ChatGPT is akin to talking with a human therapist.
OpenAI

OpenAI Employee Says She’s Never Tried Therapy But ChatGPT Is Pretty Much a Replacement For It

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Writers Guild of America has officially reached an agreement with Hollywood studios, determining that an AI isn't a "writer."
Artificial Intelligence

Strike Ends With Writers Guild Forcing Concessions on AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google's search AI thinks you can melt eggs. Its source? ChatGPT. Cheers to the end of the internet's usability!
Google

Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Government officials in Iran are looking to modernize by using artificial intelligence to help clerics issue fatwas.
Artificial Intelligence

Iranian Authorities Say AI Could Help Issue Fatwas Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Gizmodo, Coca-Cola's new AI-inspired flavor called Y3000 is uninspired and downright terrible.
Artificial Intelligence

People Disgusted With Flavor of Coke’s AI-Generated Soda

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed's stock has been tumbling for months, and it appears that Buzzy the Robot may not be enough to save it from Nasdaq doom.
Artificial Intelligence

What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.
Artificial Intelligence

Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta is marching forward with its solution for reviving declining user numbers: introducing an array of AI-powered chatbots to its services.
Meta

Losing Human Users, Facebook Releasing Chatbots for Lonely to Talk To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Authors, including John Grisham, announced they are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, claiming its large language models are violating copyright.
OpenAI

OpenAI Trembles as John Grisham Joins Lawsuit Targeting ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.
Google

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.
Google

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google, claiming Google Maps directions made the father drive his car off a bridge last year.
Google

Family Sues Google for Fatally Telling Father to Drive Off Collapsed Bridge

By Victor Tangermann

Parents in Spain are mad after naked deepfake pictures of their daughters were circulated in local schools.
Artificial Intelligence

Parents Furious After Deepfaked Nudes of Daughters Circulate at Schools

By Sharon Adarlo

To fix their terribly writing AI, companies are now resorting to hiring poets and writers with humanity degrees.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Desperately Hiring Authors and Poets to Fix Their Crappy Writing

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers in Japan claims to have figured out a way to translate the clucking of chickens with the use of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying

By Victor Tangermann

Google "Tank Man," and you might be met with a fake, AI-generated "Tank Man Selfie" as the search engine's top — and featured! — result.
Google

Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pastor in Austin used ChatGPT to write a sermon as he grapples with whether robots can be used to channel God.
OpenAI

Texas Pastor Defends Using ChatGPT to Write “Shotgun Sermon”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of confidential company data — all because of one misconfigured permission token.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI Team Accidentally Leaks Terabytes of Company Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When it comes to voicing his concerns over AI, English actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry isn't mincing words.
Artificial Intelligence

Actor Stephen Fry Furious After AI Rips Off His Voice Without Permission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Senators gathered the nation's tech industry titans to hear out on what the government should do about AI — silently, it turns out.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Bros Lectured Congress About AI “Like Schoolchildren” Who Weren’t Allowed to Raise Hands

By Frank Landymore

This was yet another notable outage that ChatGPT has suffered in the past several weeks as user traffic falls.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Goes Down Right as Sam Altman Defends It in Washington

By Frank Landymore

MSN aggregated a seemingly AI-generated article about the recent death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter, which has now been taken down.
Artificial Intelligence

MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out More

By Victor Tangermann

The IRS announced Monday that it will use "cutting-edge" AI tech to hold the US' wealthiest people and company accountable to tax debt.
Artificial Intelligence

The IRS Says It’s Using AI to Bust Zillionaire Tax Cheats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's MSN news portal published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article that derided Hunter as "useless" in its headline.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player “Useless”

By Victor Tangermann

Someone got an AI art generator to copy the illustration style of Tim Burton — and the director himself is having none of it.
Artificial Intelligence

Tim Burton Horrified by AI-Generated Art That Copies His Style

By Noor Al-Sibai

On our review, almost every single word of the A.V. Club's AI-generated articles appears to be copied directly from IMDb.
Artificial Intelligence

The A.V. Club’s AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb

By Frank Landymore and Jon Christian

The US Copyright Office has refused to hand Jason Allen copyright protection for an award-winning, AI-generated artwork.
Artificial Intelligence

Government Refuses to Copyright Award-Winning AI Artwork

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook is secretly developing a powerful new AI model designed to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4.
Meta

Meta Is Apparently Developing a Secret, Powerful New AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bad AI has a price — and in the case of the United States immigration system's translation AI, that price could cost people their freedom. 
Artificial Intelligence

ICE Is Using Busted Translation AI That Can’t Understand Detainees

By Noor Al-Sibai

Computer scientist Guillaume Cabanac spotted a telltale ChatGPT phrase in the paper, and is on a mission to uncover other frauds.
OpenAI

Paper Retracted When Authors Caught Using ChatGPT to Write It

By Frank Landymore

After replacing its human writers with a translation AI, G/O stripped Gizmodo Español of all bylines — including those of its laid-off staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Top prosecutors from all 54 US states and territories are urging Congress to take action against AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
Artificial Intelligence

Every Single State’s Attorney General Is Calling for Action on AI-Generated Child Abuse Materials

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gannett promised that no AI content would be published to its vast network without direct human oversight. This isn't how things played out.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Promised to Be Super Responsible With AI Before Completely Bungling It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's owner fired the site's Spanish translators to replace them with automated software. Surprise: the AI is already doing a bad job.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré