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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’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 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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