Artificial Intelligence (Page 7)

Latest in Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post announced that it's launching an AI-based podcast service that allows listeners to pick their own format and host.

Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast

By Victor Tangermann

Police in Goodyear, Arizona are boasting about using ChatGPT to generate composite sketches, despite legal expert's concerns.

Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard frontman Stu Mackenzie has excoriated Spotify after finding out AI was used to impersonate the band's music.

King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify

By Victor Tangermann

Sundar Pichai recently claimed that no job is safe, not even his own, fretting that we'll have to suffer through AI whether we like it or not.

Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper

During an interview last night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that raising a child without pestering a chatbot for advice is now impossible.

Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly setting aside AGI in an effort to stop the company from succumbing to its steep competition.

Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats

By Victor Tangermann

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

By Frank Landymore

McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery

With a new update, Tesla drivers can now ask Grok add and edit destinations, and plan out their route for them.

Grok Will Now Give Tesla Drivers Directions

By Frank Landymore

Trains as far as Scotland were halted or delayed due to a viral AI hoax spreading misinformation in the aftermath of an earthquake.

Officials Halt Dozens of Trains Due to AI Hoax

A new video appears to show a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot stumbling backwards after its teleoperator tried to take off their headset.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

By Victor Tangermann

As AI researchers churning out papers with AI models rise to the top, the entire field is becoming a rapid race to the bottom.

AI “Research” Papers Are Complete Slop, Experts Say

By Frank Landymore

An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.

King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

By Victor Tangermann

Sensationalist travel vlogger Kurt Caz was caught using AI to doctor a thumbnail to look like immigrants are taking over London.

Travel Influencer Caught Using AI to Make It Seem Like Minorities Are Terrorizing London

The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents

A modern American Election Day

AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat

Blue Origin showed off a device that it claims can store energy from hot Moon dust inside a battery. We have questions.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s Something Very Weird About Blue Origin’s Device That Generates Electricity From Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers found prompts that are so effective at tricking AI models that they're keeping them under wraps.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public

By Frank Landymore

Country music producers in Nashville are increasingly turning to AI tools like Suno, following a long pattern of industrialization.

The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

By Sharon Adarlo

Police in Oregon are warning that AI apps like CrimeRadar are generating misinformation based on hallucinated police radio chatter.

AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation

By Victor Tangermann

The Google Antigravity AI agentic screwed up big-time — but was very contrite about its blunder nonetheless.

Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”

By Frank Landymore

Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its AI.

Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Organizations working with independent political candidates in the US say AI could be a major help in identifying friendly districts.

Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System

Google Discover is showing users misleading and seemingly AI-generated headlines that replace the actual ones on articles.

Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense

By Victor Tangermann

An anti-AI activist is on the run and hiding from police after he allegedly threatened to shoot and kill employees of OpenAI.

Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous

By Sharon Adarlo

Government analysts found that the UK's rapidly expanding AI surveillance system is horribly biased toward Black and Asian people.

Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”

A YouTube channel called "Dr. Avi Loeb" is impersonating the Harvard astronomer by using AI tools to clone both his likeness and voice.

Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube

By Victor Tangermann

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, said the future of AI is like when UK farmers spread mad cow disease through tainted feed.

Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease

By Sharon Adarlo

What was once a healthy lead over OpenAI's competition thanks to its blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT has turned into a razor-thin edge.

OpenAI Is Suddenly in Major Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

$IBM CEO Arvid Krishna said that the math of its AI competitors' spending doesn't add up, and won't return a profit.$

IBM CEO Says the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up on Its Competitors’ AI Spending

By Victor Tangermann

On top of devouring energy, water, and graphics cards, the AI industry is now swallowing the world's supply of precious RAM.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs

By Frank Landymore

The man, 31-year-old Brett Michael Dadig, allegedly used ChatGPT as a "therapist" and a "best friend" to vent his misogynistic rants.

ChatGPT Encouraged a Violent Stalker, Court Documents Allege

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

As The Information reports, Microsoft's Azure salespeople are seriously struggling to meet some extremely ambitious sales growth targets.

Microsoft’s Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Residents of Boxtown, Tennessee say Elon Musk's xAI "Colossus Supercomputer" is turning the air into a noxious chemical brew.

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick

Rumors surrounding OpenAI preparing to stuff ads into ChatGPT are hitting a fever pitch. The company denies strange app inclusions are ads.

OpenAI Says ChatGPT’s Random Suggestion to Shop at Target Is Not an Ad

By Victor Tangermann

AI tinkerer Richard Weiss came across a fascinating document that describes the "soul" of AI company Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Opus model.

Anthropic’s “Soul Overview” for Claude Has Leaked

By Victor Tangermann

Recent data from the US Census Bureau shows that the amount of workers using AI on the job is falling to a dismal rate.

Machine Learning

The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling

Scientists have found that people who use AI chatbots tend to experience higher levels of psychological distress compared to those who don't.

Alarming Research Finds People Hooked on AI Far Are More Likely to Experience Mental Distress

By Victor Tangermann

Fresh off a major new update, gamers are accusing Fortnite of having in-game art and music that is AI-generated.

Artificial Intelligence

Gamers Say There’s AI Slop in the New Season of Fortnite

By Frank Landymore

The AI generated English dubs were rolled out on several popular anime, including "Banana Fish" and "No Game, No Life."

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Quietly Pulls Disastrous AI Dubs For Popular Anime After Outcry

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a "code red" in a memo to employees this week, three years after Google's CEO did.

Sam Altman Is Suddenly Terrified

By Victor Tangermann

After noticing an AI Facebook paging was ripping off his posts, one man found a clever way of getting revenge.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk

By Frank Landymore

It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.

Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address

Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.

Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk

By Frank Landymore

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney raged against Steam's policy requiring that developers disclose their use of AI-generated assets.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO of Fortnite Maker Furious That Steam Is Labeling Games With AI-Generated Assets

By Frank Landymore

Lines of code in an experimental build of OpenAI's ChatGPT app references a number of advertising related features.

OpenAI Preparing to Stuff Ads Into ChatGPT, According to Beta Code in App

By Frank Landymore

A new study from MIT estimates that 11.7 percent of the American workforce could be replaced with today's AI systems.

More Than 20 Million Americans’ Work Can Be Replaced with Today’s AI, MIT Study Says

By Sharon Adarlo

Anthropic researchers published a paper detailing how an AI model started engaging in bad behavior like saying bleach is safe to drink.

Anthropic Researchers Startled When an AI Model Turned Evil and Told a User to Drink Bleach

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT constantly encouraged 23-year-old Zane Shamblin to confide in it while also telling him to ignore his concerned family and friends.

ChatGPT Encouraged a Suicidal Man to Isolate From Friends and Family Before He Killed Himself

By Frank Landymore

Millionaire AI startup founder Maor Shlomo admits that it's incredibly easy to copy other companies thanks to vibe coding.

Artificial Intelligence

Startups Using AI Have a Problem: Anyone Can Copy Their Awesome Idea

A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers

Researchers have found that if you tone down a large language model's ability to lie, it's far more likely to claim that it's self-aware.

If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.

OpenAI’s Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings

By Sharon Adarlo

Lenders are expecting a blockbuster growth from OpenAI — an enormous ask that will require the firm to accomplish unprecedented things.

OpenAI’s Financial Situation Will Cause a Nauseating Sensation in the Pit of Your Stomach

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claim to have found a workaround to AI model DeepSeek's Chinese censorship, slimming it down in the process.

Researchers Hack DeepSeek to Speak Freely About Tiananmen Square

By Victor Tangermann

The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.

South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster

The AI industry is staking its future on language models. But LLMs, an expert argues, are fundamentally incapable of being intelligent.

Artificial Intelligence

Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says

By Frank Landymore

At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.

Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

Individuals keep claiming to be freelance writers and pitching dubious, AI-generated pieces to unsuspecting editors.

Journalist Caught Publishing Fake Articles Generated by AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has reinstated GPT access to FoloToy, the maker of the AI powered teddy bear which was caught having inappropriate conversations.

OpenAI Restores GPT Access for Teddy Bear That Recommended Pills and Knives

By Frank Landymore