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An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror.

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Someone Asked an AI to Show the “Last Selfie Ever Taken” and Um

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Eerie Deepfake Tech Turns Random Guy Into Angelina Jolie

By Frank Landymore

Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against Chicago on grounds that an AI policing program called ShotSpotter led to his wrongful arrest.

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Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has finally fired the engineer, Blake Lemoine, who insists the company's chatbot AI known as LaMBDA is sentient after a previous suspension.

Google Fires Engineer Who Said Its Experimental AI Gained Sentience

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More writers are using AI programs like Sudowrite to create fiction novels faster than ever before. Some support AI writing, some don't.

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Authors Are Starting to Use AI to Quickly Churn Out Novels

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Upon announcing the public rollout of the DALL-E 2 beta, OpenAI declared that all DALL-E imagery can be commercialized and sold.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine to Sell Images Made With DALL-E 2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

META, an art installation company, is now suing Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook, claiming that its identity has been stolen.

Another Company Called Meta Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company for Changing Its Name to Meta

By Frank Landymore

Protecting children online has never been easy. With the advent of facial recognition search engine PimEyes, the safety of children is even more at risk.

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Experts Horrified by Facial Recognition Site That Digs Up “Potentially Explicit” Photos of Children

By Frank Landymore

A smart pet door from Petvation that uses facial recognition software and machine learning to let your pets in and out is headed to production.

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Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Strange Animals Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China is reportedly developing a biometric-enhanced AI device that can test how loyal one is to the ruling party — and yes, we should be afraid.

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China Says It’s Developing an AI to Detect Party Loyalty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google says it will delete location and search history that confirms people sought abortion or reproductive care following Roe's reversal.

Google Says It Will Automatically Delete Abortion Clinic Visits From Users’ History

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete?

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Researcher Tells AI to Write a Paper About Itself, Then Submits It to Academic Journal

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbot company Replika has had enough of its customers thinking that its avatars are actually real people.

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Company Complains That Users Keep Thinking Its AI Has Come to Life

By Victor Tangermann

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

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The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.

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Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

By Frank Landymore

Vice has confirmed that Facebook is removing status updates that discuss mailed abortion pills, and has even issued temporary bans to some users.

Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Close those tabs! Scientists in China have created a prototype AI device that knows when a man is watching porn — by "reading his mind."

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Scientists Develop Head-Mounted Device That Detects When You Watch Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is planning to allow its Alexa smart speaker to mimic the voices of deceased loved ones, arguably a rather crass failure to read the room.

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Amazon Shows Off Tech That Lets Alexa Copy Voice of Dead Relatives

By Victor Tangermann

Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine says that the lawyer who had signed on to represent a "sentient" AI has been "scared off" the case.

Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired by “Sentient” AI Has Been “Scared Off” the Case

By Jon Christian

Straight from the depths of AI hell hails Crungus — or somewhere like that, because until a few days ago, nobody knew this thing existed.

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AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new voice app allows anybody's voice to sound exactly like Morgan Freeman in real time, an impressive and powerful example of AI-powered technologies.

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New App Makes You Sound Like Morgan Freeman in Real Time

By Victor Tangermann

Members of the Fellowship of Friends religious sect or cult have taken over hiring at Google, one former Google employee says. New hires are cult members.

Google Allegedly Infiltrated by “Cult-Like Religious Sect”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like the DALL-E Mini image generator really can conjure up anything — including hilarious and bizarre depictions of drug use.

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That Viral DALL-E AI Is Great at Generating Images of Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The DALL-E Mini image generator is super fun to play around with — but like all neural networks, it has a pretty big racism problem.

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That AI Image Generator Is Spitting Out Some Awfully Racist Stuff

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

Blake Lemoine, Google engineer making claims of sentient AI, took to Twitter to inform those reaching — he's offline and away on his honeymoon.

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Engineer Who Says AI Came to Life Says He Can’t Comment Further Because He’s on His Honeymoon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Blake Lemoine claims to have had conversations with an advanced AI-powered chatbot — which led him to believe the AI has become "sentient."

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Transcript of Conversation With “Sentient” AI Was Heavily Edited

By Victor Tangermann

Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he made an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of the company's experimental AI had gained sentience.

The Transcripts of an AI That a Google Engineer Claims Is Sentient Are Pretty Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from the company after claiming the artificial intelligence he was testing became sentient.

Google Suspends Engineer Who Claims the Company’s Experimental AI Has Become Sentient

By Victor Tangermann

Researcher Yannic Kilcher trained an AI bot using millions of 4chan post from the Politically Incorrect board "/pol/." He called the bot "vile" on YouTube.

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Guy Trains Particularly Horrible AI Bot Using Millions of 4Chan Posts

By Lonnie Lee Hood

English TV presenter and record executive Simon Cowell was shocked to find a performer with his own face singing a tune on "America's Got Talent."

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Simon Cowell Shocked by Deepfake Copy of Himself

By Victor Tangermann

The nation's leading stungun maker is pulling plans to put Taser drones in schools, but that wasn't enough for most its ethics board, which has resigned.

Most of Company’s Ethics Board Resigns in Disgust Over Taser-Wielding Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's mind-blowing text-to-image AI system called DALL-E2 appears to have created its own written language, according to a computer science PhD student.

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Researcher Says an Image Generating AI Invented Its Own Language

By Victor Tangermann

Catriona Campbell, A UK-based AI expert, argues we could soon be raising AI-based virtual children inside the metaverse dubbed "Tamagotchi children."

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AI Expert Says Soon People Will Raise “Virtual Children” That Cost Less, Are Less Messy

By Victor Tangermann

Police are doing something that appears to never have been done before: deepfaking a murder victim to try and help bring his killer to justice.

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Cops Are Now Deepfaking Murder Victims To Catch Their Killers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI.

Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook emperor Mark Zuckerberg has teased the existence of his company Meta's latest mixed reality headset dubbed Project Cambria.

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off New AR Headset But Blurs It Out for Some Bizarre Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Users discovered a genuinely puzzling bug that caused the browser-based Google Docs to crash when confronted with repeated instances of the same word.

User Discovers That Google Docs Crashes When You Type a Specific Phrase

By Noor Al-Sibai

A controversial TikTok account fooled fans into believing a deepfake Robert Pattinson, but has since been deleted. Who did it?

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Deepfaked Robert Pattinson TikTok Account Mysteriously Nuked

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Akihiko Kondo, who married ultra-popular virtual star Hatsune Miku back in 2018, has been separated from his virtual partner due to a software glitch.

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Man Married to Hologram Can’t Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch

By Victor Tangermann

AI Generates Painting of Actual “Burger King” and There’s a Terrifying Hunger in His Eye

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AI Generates Painting of Actual “Burger King” and There’s a Terrifying Hunger in His Eye

By Noor Al-Sibai

Machine learning researchers are teaching neural networks how to superficially judge humans — and the results are pretty brutal.

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Scientists Create “Deliberately” Biased AI That Judges You as Brutally as Your Mother-in-Law

By Noor Al-Sibai

Reporters and readers reacted to the news that Ukraine is using facial recognition AI software to identify dead soldiers Russia left behind.

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Internet Aghast at AI Facial Recognition Used to Identify Dead Russian Soldiers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Soldiers in Ukraine are using facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify dead Russian soldiers and send it to families in Russia.

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Ukraine Reportedly Using Facial Recognition to Send Photos of Dead Russian Soldiers to Their Mothers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A startup called NextSense is working on a pair of earbuds that can record the electrical signals of the brain to study sleeping and mental conditions.

Google Spinoff Working on Earbuds That Spy on Your Brain Signals

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI artist who moonlights as a parody account of the uber-popular @dril account reminds us that online can still be fun.

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Welcome to “Robot Hell”! Meet the Deranged Genius Who Created an AI Version of @Dril

By Noor Al-Sibai

A guy got a tattoo created by OpenAI's DALL-E2 program, which creates realistic images and art from human language and AI machine learning.

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Man Gets Tattoo of Art Created by Neural Network

By Lonnie Lee Hood

OpenAI has released its latest creation called DALL-E2 — a truly impressive demonstration of the power of generative adversarial networks.

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Amazing New AI Can Spit Out Realistic Images From Simple Descriptions

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released its latest product dubbed DALL-E2 — an impressive piece of coding that can turn simple text descriptions into photorealistic images.

Drat! OpenAI Says Its Image-Generating AI Is Incapable of Making Porn

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of CEO Elon Musk claiming that Tesla may begin selling its Optimus humanoid robots next year, that timeline nearly impossible.

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Sorry, But There’s No Way Tesla Is Selling a Humanoid Robot Next Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

The nightmare neural networks are back at it again — and this time, they're taking requests.

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Neural Network Twitter Bot Creates Whatever Delights Or Nightmares Its Fans Force Upon It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two researchers and psychiatrists published research about taken from an AI's interpretation of almost 7,000 psychedelic trip reports written by users.

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Poor AI Has To Suffer Listening to People Describing Their Drug Experiences

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Polyamory is one thing, but one man who claims falling in love with his AI girlfriend saved his marriage to his flesh-and-blood wife is certainly another.

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Man Credits Affair With AI Girlfriend For Saving His Marriage

By Noor Al-Sibai

Could the entire internet be generated by AI soon? At least one expert at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is studying AI-generated content.

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Experts Say That Soon, Almost the Entire Internet Could Be Generated by AI

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Good news, everyone: Mark Zuckerberg is not a robot after all.

Watch Mark Zuckerberg Take a CAPTCHA to Prove He’s Not a Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Alphabet Inc decided to temporarily disable live traffic data on Google Maps in Ukraine due to the danger it posed on civilians and troops.

Google Disables Maps in Ukraine After It Revealed Troop Movements

By Tony Ho Tran

Some mad scientists have been training neural networks onto "The Simpsons" — and the results are demonic AF.

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Neural Networks Generate Demonic Simpsons Characters Straight From Hell

By Noor Al-Sibai

A nightmarish mix of Big Tech overreach meets state authoritarianism resulted in algorithm to predict which low-income "future teens" in his province would be likely to get pregnant.

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Microsoft Created Creepy Algorithm to Predict Which Specific Teens Would Get Pregnant

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's charitable giving has hit newsstands — and the world may have a professional poker player to thank for it.

Elon Musk Hired A Professional Gambler to Manage His Philanthropic Donations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid a maelstrom about AI consciousness, one MIT data scientist has highlighted that the concept might not be so far-fetched.

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MIT Researcher: Don’t Ignore the Possibility That AI Is Becoming Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

As if the possibility that AI might already be conscious wasn’t creepy enough, researchers have announced that AI-generated faces have become so sophisticated that people think they’re more trustworthy than actual humans.

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Scientists Warn That New AI-Generated Faces Are Seen as More Trustworthy Than Real Ones

By Tony Ho Tran

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever's claim that some AI may already be conscious has generated a lot of conversation among experts.

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Researchers Furious Over Claim That AI Is Already Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai