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A large number of very young users are engaging with violent — and often sexually violent — interactions with unregulated companion chatbots.

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon's AI video recap tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of its hit show, "Fallout."

Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of “Fallout” Season 1 After It’s Called Out for Being Full of Errors

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's AI Grok is claiming that a post president Trump made about Rob Reiner's death was fake, while also claiming it was real.

Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner’s Death

By Frank Landymore

A Fox Business host railed against a humble little tree farm that's standing in the way of more AI data center construction.

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Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers

By Frank Landymore

Semafor reported that the Washington Post launched its controversial AI podcast feature despite knowing it was severely flawed.

The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably

By Victor Tangermann

Happy holidays: an AI-powered toy has been caught repeating talking points from the Chinese Communist Party.

An AI-Powered Toy Is Regaling Children With Chinese Communist Party Talking Points

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

Sora users have been churning out edgy AI Disney and Pixar style trailers well before Disney signed a licensing agreement with OpenAI.

People Are Already Creating Ghoulishly Horrifying Sora Disney Videos

By Frank Landymore

Anthropic's chief scientist Jared Kaplan says humanity will soon have a big decision to make on whether to take the "ultimate risk" on AI.

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Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Moment That Could Doom Us All

By Frank Landymore

The Washington Post's egregiously error-ridden AI podcasts are causing a meltdown inside the newspaper's newsroom.

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The Washington Post’s AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon's AI chatbot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Geneva Convention, even if Pete Hegseth doesn't.

Hegseth’s New Pentagon AI Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal

New research shows a country-wide experiment by Instacart has been charging shoppers different prices for the same product at the same store.

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Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

OpenAI is making it hard for its researchers to publish research that tells the truth of AI's potentially negative economic impact.

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

By Frank Landymore

With backing from AI chipmaker Nvidia, a startup called Starcloud launched a high-powered Nvidia GPU into outer space and trained an AI.

Nvidia Chip on Satellite in Orbit Trains First AI Model in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Nick Park, the creator of the beloved claymation series "Wallace and Gromit," said his studio would "embrace" AI.

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Creator of “Wallace and Gromit” Says Heck, He’ll Start Using AI

By Frank Landymore

A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.

AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims

Disney is licensing over 200 characters to OpenAI to use in its video AI app Sora, on top of investing a billion dollars into the company.

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Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth

By Frank Landymore

Those who bet on who would be named Time's "Person of the Year" on prediction markets were absolutely furious at the announcement.

Please Enjoy Laughing at the Prediction Markets, in Full Meltdown, After Time’s “Person of the Year” Reveal

By Victor Tangermann

The company 2wai went viral after it released an advertisement showing its AI product resurrecting a dead grandmother.

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The website for Time magazine now features a big AI chatbox that can't be closed and won't go away, blocking even its main headlines.

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Time Magazine Deploys AI “Ask Me Anything” Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can’t Be Closed

By Frank Landymore

McDonald's and its marketing contractors have had some bizarre responses to the backlash from their AI commercial.

McDonald’s Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disastrous AI Ad

Researchers have caught another AI-powered toy intended for children discussing sexual topics in alarming detail.

Another AI-Powered Children’s Toy Just Got Caught Having Wildly Inappropriate Conversations

By Frank Landymore

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

By Sharon Adarlo

The rising tide of AI slop has brought with it fake research and other sources that librarians are asked to track down.

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Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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