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An AI pioneer and onetime Google executive has issued a stark warning about the technology he helped unleash upon the world.

Former Google Exec Warns AI Could Create a Deadly Plague

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-generated song featuring the cloned vocals of Drake and the Weeknd has officially been submitted for two Grammys.

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AI-Generated Drake Song Submitted for Grammys

By Victor Tangermann

College applicants will soon be using it on their admissions essays — and there's a lot to unpack for colleges.

Oh God… Kids Are About to Start Writing College Application Essays Using ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rather than simply scrub its many pages of Lede AI-generated content clean, Gannett is updating the articles to correct their many "errors."

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USA Today Updates Every AI-Generated Sports Article to Correct “Errors”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don't exist.

Professor Caught Using ChatGPT When Scientific Paper Was Full of Errors

By Victor Tangermann

We spoke to a Gannett sports writer about high school sports coverage, why it matters, and what gets lost when you automate.

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Gannett Sports Writer on Botched AI-Generated Sports Articles: “Embarrassing”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft is looking to take wearable tech to the next level with its AI-powered backpack patent that would be able to spy on you.

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Microsoft Patents Bizarre AI-Powered Backpack, Bristling With Sensors

By Noor Al-Sibai

Steve Williams, VFX bigwig, predicts a 100 percent AI movie will be released to the public, who won't suspect it's completely fake.

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Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There’ll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie

By Sharon Adarlo

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.

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USA Today and Many Other Newspapers Are Churning Out Terrible AI-Generated Sports Stories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

DABUS is fully autonomous, argues its creator Stepher Thaler, and anything that it creates should be patentable. The courts don't agree.

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Inventor Claims His AI Is Sentient, Fights to Copyright Its Creations

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was clearly annoyed by a blog post declaring that Google's forthcoming Gemini model will quickly surpass GPT-4.

OpenAI Rages at Report That Google’s New AI Crushes GPT-4

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you're considering a foray into amateur mushroom foraging, you might want to reconsider shopping for your beginner's guide on Amazon.

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Experts Worry That AI-Generated Books About Mushroom Foraging Will Get Someone Killed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than a year into the AI boom and startups are already having to grapple with what may become an industry reckoning.

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AI Startups Are Already Running Into Some Serious Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

Workers overseas are being tasked with labeling images, allowing AI algorithms to make sense of the world. They're also being exploited.

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AI’s Dirty Secret: Poor People in the Developing World Are Doing Most of the Work

By Victor Tangermann

The Columbus Dispatch has paused AI efforts after its sports writing AI started publishing awful articles about local high school match-ups.

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USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has officially launched a new business-friendly version of its popular AI chatbot called ChatGPT Enterprise.

OpenAI Pleads With Companies to Actually Pay for ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.

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Are We Ready For This Site’s Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chances are, if a company is developing AI systems, then it probably depends on pricey hardware from Nvidia.

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If AI Is a Gold Rush, Nvidia Is Selling Shovels

By Frank Landymore

Feeling lonely, a writer decided to create an AI boyfriend only to find him shallow, increasingly annoying and clingy.

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Woman Creates AI Boyfriend, Finds It Clingy and Irritating

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sketchy sites are purporting to sell semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy, without a prescription. Google is cashing in.

Google Seems to Be Running a Lot of Ads for Black Market Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.

Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI is funding an AI-powered personal assistant app for parents called Milo, which is currently in beta mode.

OpenAI Is Funding an App for Parents to Manage Kids’ Lives

By Sharon Adarlo

A book claiming to document the events of the Maui wildfires was published on Amazon just days after the deadly disaster had begun.

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Seemingly AI-Written Book on Maui Wildfire Becomes Amazon Bestseller, Gets Taken Down

By Frank Landymore

According to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, AI-managed portfolios didn't even capitalize on the boom driven by AI this year.

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AI Is Doing a Terrible Job Trading Stocks in the Real World

By Frank Landymore

Global Illuminations' team, which made an open source Minecraft game, will work on OpenAI "core products including ChatGPT."

OpenAI Just Bought a Game Studio Working on a “Minecraft” Clone

By Frank Landymore

Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI.

Google’s Apparently Building an AI That Tells You How to Live Your Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is said to be weighing a lawsuit against OpenAI over intellectual property infringement behind closed doors.

The New York Times Is Apparently Considering a Lawsuit Against OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-powered search doesn't understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time.

Google’s SGE Search AI Is Devouring False AI-Generated Info and Saying It’s True

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Guy Who Uses AI to Post as a Voluptuous Influencer: “I Usually Just Call Myself Her Manager”

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Guy Who Uses AI to Post as a Voluptuous Influencer: “I Usually Just Call Myself Her Manager”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with CNN, Kaku dismissed AI chatbots as "glorified tape recorders," arguing we're vastly overestimating their capabilities.

Michio Kaku Says AIs Like ChatGPT Are “Glorified Tape Recorders”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the University of Chicago claim to have invented a tool that protects artists' work from being accurately reproduced by AI.

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Scientists Say New Tool Makes Images Worthless for Training AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a 2020 paper, SEC chief Gary Gensler warned that AI could lead to disastrous uniformity and interconnectedness in financial structures.

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SEC Head Fears AI Could Cause a Financial Crash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Def Con hosted a contest to identify software vulnerabilities of chatbots like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Most Fearsome Hackers Just Went Ham on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's "BotGPT" is hitting the streets, ready to devour anything that's ever been posted online. Luckily, it's pretty easy to block.

OpenAI Deploys Crawler to Vacuum Up Your Posts and Train AI With Them

By Frank Landymore

A known AI hater, Nick Cave has once again gone off on OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators being used to mimic real songwriting.

Nick Cave Unloads on Musicians Using ChatGPT to Write Songs

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

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AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that bots are better at completing CAPTCHAs than humans in both accuracy and speed.

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AI Is Now Better Than Humans at Solving Those Annoying “Prove You’re a Human” Tests

By Victor Tangermann

A New Zealand supermarket's AI recipe bot suggested users chef up a series of poisonous, deadly, and/or cannibalistic meals.

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Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Educators are struggling to respond to widespread cheating with ChatGPT. Some instances of cheating, though, are easier to spot than others.

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Idiot Students Are Submitting Answers Saying “I Am an AI Language Model”

By Frank Landymore

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.

Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that ChatGPT got just half of 517 Stack Overflow prompts wrong, indicating it's not great at spitting out perfect code.

ChatGPT Actually Gets Half of Programming Questions Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

Author Jane Friedman got some seemingly AI-written books listed under her name taken down after posting about it on Twitter and her own blog.

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Author Annoyed to Find Amazon Selling AI-Generated Books Under Her Name

By Noor Al-Sibai

Zoom wants you to know that it definitely didn't use your video calls to train its AI — even if its convoluted TOS seems to say otherwise.

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Zoom Insists It Wasn’t Using Private Calls to Train AI System

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

From fundraising more than $100 million to hemorrhaging top talent the firm that makes Stable Diffusion has had a heck of a year.

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The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos

By Noor Al-Sibai

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AI Startups Are Openly Engaged In Corporate Espionage

By Sharon Adarlo

G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown reiterated the company was committed to AI articles despite "external commentary.

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G/O Tells Staff Not to Worry About Everyone Mocking Their Horrible AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

Google and Universal Music Reportedly Want to Monetize Deepfaked AI Songs

By Frank Landymore

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Revenge of the Writers: AI Fiction Analysis Site Toppled by Revolt

By Frank Landymore

Picture Alliance via Getty / Futurism

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AI Knows What You’re Typing Just By Hearing It Over a Zoom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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How AI Could Predict the Outbreak of Infectious Diseases like Ebola

By Frank Landymore

Vatican Pool via Getty / Futurism

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The Pope Doubles Down on AI Concerns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Is Dangerously Good at Giving Eating Disorder Advice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Here’s What It’s Like To Be Falsely Arrested via Facial Recognition

By Sharon Adarlo

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The New Scam Flooding Amazon: AI-Generated Travel Guides

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter to express his concern that AI might meddle with elections and the democratic process.

Sam Altman Fears AI’s Effect on Elections

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lil Wayne has joined the ranks of artists who've weighed in on AI — and his take is as witty, individual, and potty-mouthed as his rhymes.

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Lil Wayne Isn’t Worried About AI Because He’s Too Unique and “Amazing”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Four former ChatGPT content moderators have filed a petition for an investigation into the OpenAI-contracted moderation firm Sama.

Contractors Say OpenAI Psychologically Scarred Them for $2/Hour

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The domain AI.com once took users to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Now, it's apparently changed hands, and redirects to Elon Musk's AI project, xAI.

OpenAI’s Former Domain AI.com Now Directs to Elon Musk’s AI Company

By Frank Landymore

Background actors recall how they were scanned with little heads up, fearing that their digitized selves will be used by studios without pay.

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Background Actor Describes When Marvel Made Her Go to a Strange Trailer to Be Scanned

By Frank Landymore

During a recent interview, rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube pulled no punches while trashing the use of AI in music.

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Ice Cube Says AI Is “Demonic”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chatbot defamation cases continue to rise, as Meta's Blenderbot3 accused Stanford cybersecurity expert Marietje Schaake of being a terrorist.

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Facebook AI Accuses AI Researcher of Being a Terrorist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Priscilla Chan is not at all pleased that her husband, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has built a fighting ring in their backyard.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Unhappy He’s Building Fighting Arena in their Backyard

By Noor Al-Sibai

That viral business run by ChatGPT appears to be defunct. But to be fair, despite the AI hype of it all, it never really got off the ground.

Remember That Guy Who Gave ChatGPT $100 to Start a Business? It Failed Miserably

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An app called Remini claims to use generative AI to show users what their future kids might look like. Security experts wonder if it's safe.

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App Claims to Use AI to Show What Your Children Would Look Like

By Maggie Harrison Dupré