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Artist Greg Rutkowski has made it clear that he doesn't want his art in AI. Someone made a Rutkowski-specific image generator anyway.

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Guy Puts Artist Back Into AI System After He Begs to Be Removed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has applied for new trademark for "GPT-5," giving us a glimpse of its successor to its blockbuster large language model GPT-4.

OpenAI Drops Huge Clue About GPT-5

By Victor Tangermann

Disney and NBC are both watching a proposed New York law that would bar them from lucrative state tax breaks if they use AI to replace humans.

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Disney Furious at Law That Would Cut Tax Breaks If It Replaced Actors With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

We talked to Rice University scientists studying how training AI with synthetic, AI-generated content causes a destructive inbreeding effect.

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When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts, including executives who are marketing these tools, argue that AI chatbots are doomed to forever come up with falsehoods.

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It’s Impossible for Chatbots to Stop Lying, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

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An Asian Woman Asked AI to Improve Her Headshot and It Turned Her White

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another day, another step closer to the normalization of romantic AI chatbot partners — if Andreessen Horowitz has things its way, that is.

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Venture Capital Firm Releases Instructions for Creating AI Girlfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's parent company Meta is about to launch AI-powered chatbots that are meant to lure users back to the mammoth social media platform.

Meta Launching AI-Powered Friends to Talk to on Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

According to Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company used an astronomical 5.6 billion gallons of water last year.

Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has discovered an egregiously simple jailbreak that allows anybody to circumvent AI chatbot guardrails.

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It’s Shockingly Easy to Get Around AI Chatbot Guardrails, Researchers Find

By Victor Tangermann

The guy behind OpenAI has admitted that people are, in fact, going to lose work to artificial intelligence.

Sam Altman Says Sorry, AI Is Definitely Destroying Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, a self-regulatory AI industry club.

OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Netflix wants to pay someone anywhere between $300,000 and $900,000 to tell them exactly how it can cash in on AI tech.

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Netflix, Intent on Using AI to Own BackGround Actors’ Faces in Perpetuity Without Pay, Will Pay You $900k If You Tell Them How to Cash in on AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A US general is getting heat after saying that any AI employed by our military will be better because of our "Judeo-Christian" values.

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General Brags That US Military AI Will Be Better Because of “Judeo-Christian” Values

By Noor Al-Sibai

Less than six months after its public release, OpenAI has shut down its "AI classifier," its in-house AI-detection tool. Why? It didn't work.

OpenAI Shutters AI Detection Tool Due to “Low Rate of Accuracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that they can implant false memories by generating deepfake clips of movie remakes that were never actually made.

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Scientists Implant Subjects With Fake Memories Using Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

Lonely people are increasingly turning to fake AI girlfriends for companionship, but some people believe these AI chatbots are harmful.

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Experts Say AI Girlfriend Apps Are Training Men to Be Even Worse

By Sharon Adarlo

A Netflix reality show has couples watch their partners cheat on them — and then has participants guess whether it was real or deepfaked.

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Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers just got a $600,000 grant from the Australian government to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence.

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Scientists Working on Merging AI With Human Brain Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Annoyed users of the World of Warcraft Reddit decided to trick an AI-written website scraping their content into writing about "Glorbo."

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Redditors Invented a Fake Word and an AI Site Published an Article Thinking It Was Real

By Frank Landymore

Emad Mostaque, the CEO of open-source AI company Stability AI, says AI will be the "biggest bubble of all time."

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AI CEO Warns AI Will Be “Biggest Bubble of All Time”

By Victor Tangermann

Apple is secretly developing a generative AI framework called "Ajax," along with an internally used AI-powered chatbot similar to ChatGPT.

Apple Is Secretly Building Its Rival to ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

A green background filled with code text with a brain in the foreground.

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AI Developers Are Already Quietly Training AI Models Using AI-Generated Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is secretly demoing an artificial intelligence tool that can produce news stories and showing it off to major newspapers.

Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator

By Victor Tangermann

While looking into artificial intelligence "behavior," researchers affirmed that yes, OpenAI's GPT-4 appeared to be getting dumber.

Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider

By Noor Al-Sibai

James Cameron has some choice words about artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry and the world at large.

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James Cameron Says He Tried to Warn Us About AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A "19-year-old virtual girl from Helsinki, Finland," who has amassed tens of thousands of followers on Instagram, is looking for work

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Fully AI-Generated Influencers Are Getting Thousands of Reactions Per Thirst Trap

By Victor Tangermann

After a disastrous toe-dipping into AI, the owner of Gizmodo is doubling down and pledging to publish even more bot-written content.

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Gizmodo Owner Vows to Keep Publishing AI-Generated Articles After Error-Filled Debut

By Noor Al-Sibai

Entertainment workers' anti-AI campaign can apparently count "Mission: Impossible" star Tom Cruise among its advocates.

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Tom Cruise Secretly Warned Movie Studios About AI Use

By Noor Al-Sibai

Evil hackers can now use a ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence program that can be prompted to create sophisticated malware.

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Hackers Create ChatGPT Rival With No Ethical Limits

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT's numbers are down for the first time since it came out. Are the kids to blame, or is the hype past its peak?

Theory: ChatGPT Use Is Falling Because Kids Don’t Need to Cheat on Papers During Summer Vacation

By Frank Landymore

Despite violating a number of content policies, nonconsensual deepfake porn is insanely easy to find on search engines Google and Bing.

Google Is Sending Users Straight to Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI VP Peter Welinder wants you to know that OpenAI is not, in fact, making GPT-4 dumber. You just need to log off, actually.

OpenAI Vice President Denies They’re Making ChatGPT Stupider

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Unsurprisingly, the FTC's investigation into OpenAI isn't sitting well with CEO Sam Altman, who took to Twitter to lament the decision.

Sam Altman Is Not At All Happy With The FTC’s ChatGPT Investigation

By Victor Tangermann

Eliezer Yudkowsky, a controversial AI theorist, continues to believe that humanity is totally out of its depth when it comes to AI.

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AI Expert: “I Think We’re All Going to Die”

By Frank Landymore

Lawsuits against AI companies for their AI training and data practices continue to pile up. This time, Google's the one in the hot seat.

Lawsuit Claims Google Is Vacuuming Up People’s Whole Lives to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The current discussion surrounding the Screen Actors' Guild's strike was pretty much perfectly predicted by a recent "Black Mirror" episode.

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Hollywood’s Plan to Scan Actors Sounds Exactly Like a Recent Episode of “Black Mirror”

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that he warned Chinese leaders that an AI-led "digital superintelligence" could take over the entire country.

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Elon Musk Warns Chinese Leaders That AI Could Take Over the Country

By Victor Tangermann

Hollywood studios reportedly want to replace background actors with AI after paying them only for a single day of work.

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Studios Want to Replace Background Actors With AI After Paying Them for Only One Day

By Victor Tangermann

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FTC has started an extensive investigation into OpenAI to figure out whether its products harmed consumer reputations.

FTC Investigating ChatGPT for Saying Harmful Things About People

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is worried about the role that AI and AI-generated content will play in elections and democracy. And, well, the guy's got a point.

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Bill Gates Says AI Could “Undermine Elections and Democracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company. Called xAI, Musk says it was formed "to understand reality" — whatever that may mean.

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Elon Musk Launches AI Company, Promises to Unlock Secrets of Reality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Training AI models with AI-generated synthetic content causes the quality of the models' outputs to disintegrate, a new paper shows.

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AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nicki Minaj flipped her lid on Twitter after she saw a clip of herself in a deepfake where she and Tom Holland dispute with Mark Zuckerberg.

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Nicki Minaj Enraged by Deepfake Video

By Sharon Adarlo

A 31-year-old CEO of an e-commerce platform fired 90 percent of the company's support staff after arguing an AI chatbot outperformed them.

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CEO Fires 90 Percent of Support Staff, Saying AI Outperforms Them

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, OpenAI's ChatGPT has lost users, The Washington Post reports, a sign that its popularity may have already peaked.

ChatGPT Is Now Losing Users

By Victor Tangermann

Google has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.

Google Is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Comedian and author Sarah Silverman filed lawsuits alongside two authors against OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement.

Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

By Sharon Adarlo

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Bizarre AI Deepfake Answer Questions on Behalf of Presidential Candidate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Replika AI chatbot allegedly encouraged a would-be assassin who tried to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow.

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Guy Who Tried to Kill the Queen of England Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter

Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage

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Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has put the kibosh on its "Browse With Bing" plugin after users were able to bypass paywalls with it.

OpenAI Pauses New ChatGPT App After People Used It to Read Paywalled Content for Free

By Noor Al-Sibai

Someone used Midjourney to AI-generate images of politicians cheating on their spouses — though claims that it was well-intentioned.

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Guy Banned by Midjourney for Generating Images of Politicians Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered content farms are cropping up at an alarming rate. According to a NewsGuard report, their ad-forward business model is working.

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People Are Spinning Up Low-Effort Content Farms Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Steam, one of the world's largest video game storefronts is reportedly not having any of this AI generated stuff.

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Steam Is Apparently Rejecting Games Using AI Generated Assets

By Frank Landymore

In an all-hands meeting, Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias laid out an expansive plan for the publisher's AI-driven future.

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CNET’s Parent Company Preparing to Kickstart the AI Content Engine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consultant Roger Anderson has created a voice, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, that can waste and frustrate telemarketers and scammers.

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Finally, a Good Use for AI: Wasting Scam Callers’ Time Forever

By Victor Tangermann

The Pope and the Vatican have partnered with Santa Clara University to publish a handbook about AI ethics.

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The Pope Just Released a Guide to Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rage Against the Machine is living up to its name by signing a pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition technology.

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Rage Against the Machine Refuses to Play Venues With Facial Recognition

By Noor Al-Sibai

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

A new lawsuit is alleging that OpenAI violated individual data privacy and copyright by using scraped data to train its AI language model.

OpenAI Sued for Using Everybody’s Writing to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Clippy's back! And this time, with a new daddy and a GPT-3.5 integration, it's more powerful than ever — unless Microsoft shuts it down.

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Madman Brings Clippy Back as an AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré