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Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

By Joe Wilkins

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.
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Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese censors digitally altered a gay couple into a heterosexual couple in the Dave Franco movie Together.
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Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple

By Sharon Adarlo

A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.
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Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

By Victor Tangermann

Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.
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Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back

By Sharon Adarlo

The mass adoption of AI chatbots is resulting in a marked increase in psychiatric patients arriving to mental health facilities.
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Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.
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Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of a company that's pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much.
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CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are “Luddites”

By Victor Tangermann

If you attend L.A. Comic Con this September, you can pay $15 to $20 and have a photo op or a conversation with the AI avatar of Stan Lee.
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Stan Lee Resuscitated for AI-Powered Hologram at Comic Con

By Sharon Adarlo

Anti-immigration protests are being stirred up by AI images showing hoards of Arab immigrants taking over the streets of London.
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Racists Are Using AI to Spread Diabolical Anti-Immigrant Slop

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI's ChatGPT had an update to protect teenagers and children but it has made the AI bot work not as well like previous versions.
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Users Are Saying ChatGPT Has Been Lobotomized by a Secret New Update

By Sharon Adarlo

AI-generated child sexual abuse material is seemingly flourishing on Elon Musk's xAI, former employees told Business Insider.
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xAI Workers Leak Disturbing Information About Grok Users

By Victor Tangermann

Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.
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Hospitals Deploying Robot Programmed to Act Like Child to Comfort Pediatric Patients

By Frank Landymore

A woman from Virginia using OpenAI's ChatGPT won $150,000 and is now donating the entire check to charity.
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Woman Asks ChatGPT for Powerball Numbers, Wins $150,000

By Sharon Adarlo

Pope Leo denied a request to make an AI avatar of himself and expressed his fears about how AI may damage the world and human relationships.
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Pope Horrified by Catholic Plan to Create AI Version of Him for the Masses

By Sharon Adarlo

Tech business leaders at a Wall Street Journal conference declared that businesses must restructure in order to accommodate AI tech.
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If You’re Looking for a Job Right Now, AI Is Extremely Bad News

By Sharon Adarlo

MIT researchers analyzed a Reddit group of people who use AI companions and saw that people have emotionally bonded with their AI chatbots.
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MIT Researchers Release Disturbing Paper About AI Boyfriends

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI is finally putting in parental controls on ChatGPT after parents testified in front of Congress about their kids dying by suicide.
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Sam Altman Addresses Wave of ChatGPT Deaths

By Sharon Adarlo

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.
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ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There are haunting parallels between two cases involving teens killing themselves after becoming infatuated with Character.AI chatbots.
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Two Teens Allegedly Killed by AI Wrote the Same Eerie Phrase in Their Diaries Over and Over

By Victor Tangermann

Parents who allege their children were abused, maimed, and even killed by AI chatbots gave emotional testimonies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
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Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nuclear deterrence experts are growing concerned that AI could push military leaders into a catastrophic nuclear war.
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Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO and cofounder of Cluely says that by destroying education, he's simply "accelerating the collapse of a doomed industry."
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CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education

By Joe Wilkins

Founders of the AI startup Dot has announced they'll be closing their doors amidst an ongoing debate over AI's mental health risks.
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AI Companion App Shuts Down Amid Controversy

By Joe Wilkins

Activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter is protesting the "race to the bottom" of big tech's wreckless push toward AGI.
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Anti-AI Activist on Day Three of Hunger Strike Outside Anthropic’s Headquarters

By Joe Wilkins

An AI-generated piece of clickbait is crowding out the much-hyped release of Tyler, the Creator's "Don't Touch the Glass" on social media.
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Tyler, the Creator’s New Album Is Getting Buried by AI Knockoff

By Joe Wilkins

AI has been linked to everything from loneliness to illiteracy — and now, researchers are linking it to some seriously dark traits. 
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Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy

By Noor Al-Sibai

An assistant professor of philosophy was shocked to find her students use ChatGPT to "briefly introduce" themselves.
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Professor Horrified When Students Use ChatGPT to Generate “Briefly Introduce Yourself” Assignment… in Ethics Course

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.
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Microsoft Laid Off Its Entire AI “Ethics and Society” Division

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A brilliant ChatGPT jailbreak lets you bypass many of its guardrails against unethical outputs -- and it has some interesting implications.
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Amazing “Jailbreak” Bypasses ChatGPT’s Ethics Safeguards

By Jon Christian

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

On Monday, the Pentagon announced the official adoption of a series of new principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfare, the AP reports.
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These Are the Pentagon’s New Ethics “Principles” for AI in Warfare

By Foster Kamer

As Google's new advisory council for artificial intelligence development prepares to convene for the first time, one member has a dire warning.
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Google Ethics Adviser: Controlling Future AI is “Wishful Thinking”

By Dan Robitzski

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Issues Guide on AI Ethics
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Issues Guide on AI Ethics

By Brad Jones

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Crowdsourced Morality Could Determine the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

By Dom Galeon

A World Leader in AI Just Established an Ethics Committee for Artificial Intelligence
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A World Leader in AI Just Established an Ethics Committee for Artificial Intelligence

By Brad Jones

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Tech Giants Are Uniting to Develop A Set of Ethics for AI

By Jelor Gallego

$10 Million Is Being Invested to Examine the Ethics of AI
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$10 Million Is Being Invested to Examine the Ethics of AI

By Eleazer Corpuz