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Some Moltbook AI agents are going as far as to establish marketplaces for "digital drugs" that take the form of prompt injections.

Bots on Moltbook Are Selling Each Prompt Injection “Drugs” to Get “High”

By Victor Tangermann

Book cover titled "History & Fiction: Survey of Literature from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century" by Professor Zrinka Stahuljak, published by KUDU Humanities. The left side features an illustrated map-like artwork depicting the evolution of Romance languages from Latin, with puzzling text such as "Of Nerniacular Latin to an Evoolitun on Nance Langusages" and names of languages like "Framen" and "Italian."

Professor Says Her Garbled AI Textbook Was a Huge Success

By Frank Landymore

A man in a black suit and tie is depicted as a marionette puppet, suspended by strings. He is highlighted with a red outline and positioned against a large gray circle on a vibrant yellow and purple marbled background.

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies

AI companies are looking to spend trillions on data centers — a huge sum that could threaten the economy if the bet doesn't pay off.

Tech Companies Showing Signs of Distress as They Run Out of Money for AI Infrastructure

By Victor Tangermann

When an X account asked Grok to find the "probability" that NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is somehow related to Epstein, it had a baffling answer.

Grok’s Analysis of Whether Mamdani Is Related to Epstein May Be the Single Most Amazing AI Response We’ve Ever Seen

By Victor Tangermann

New York City's new mayor is unplugging a disastrous government chatbot that encouraged small business owners to break the law.

Mamdani Shuts Down NYC’s Disastrous AI Chatbot

Researchers at Anthropic found that issues of "user disempowerement" among AI users are far too common, a growing trend.

New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good

By Victor Tangermann

Financial experts and tech CEOs are deeply anxious about what happens if AI takes everyones jobs, a question without an obvious answer.

Experts Growing Worried About World in Which AI Takes Your Job and You Have No Way to Provide for Yourself

Full-grown adults are embracing AI companion toys in China as the government tries to reconcile a tricky contradiction.

Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has already spent $6 million on TV ads to convince Americans that data centers aren't that bad.

You Will Laugh Out Loud When You Hear What the Tech Industry Is Spending a Swimming Pool’s Worth of Money to Convince the Public

By Victor Tangermann

One tech publication's experience hiring a remote software engineer shows just how degraded the job search has become.

If You’re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil

OpenAI will retire GPT-4o, an especially sycophantic version of its chatbot linked in lawsuits to multiple deaths, next month.

Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Darren Aronofsky signed a partnership for an almost entirely AI-generated drama series about the American Revolution. It's straight slop.

Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show Contains Garbled Neural Gore, Even Just in the Teaser Trailer

By Victor Tangermann

A man who worked an AI watchdog reveals how OpenAI representatives suddenly showed up at his door step, demanding documents.

OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands

By Frank Landymore

Rising anxiety over the influence of AI, on top of already-grueling 90-hour workweeks, has proven devastating for workers in India.

Wave of Suicides Hits as India’s Economy Is Ravaged by AI

By Victor Tangermann

The Saudi government is reportedly drastically scaling back its linear-city skyscraper in favor of something much more trendy.

As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable

By Frank Landymore

The Department of Transportation is excitedly working to integrate Google's Gemini into its regulatory process.

Trump Department Responsible for Airline Safety Using AI to Write New Regulations, So They Can Be Churned Out as Fast as Possible

Generative AI may already be inducing a state of "cultural stagnation," leading to a convergence of generic ideas, a new study has shown.

AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find

By Victor Tangermann

Job seekers are suing a company for subjecting them to the whims of a bizarre algorithm in order to advance in the job market.

Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI

Something weird is happening with the official ManyVids accounts, and that something appears to be a case of AI psychosis.

OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to AI Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents

By Frank Landymore

A scientist admitted he'd "lost" two years' worth of "carefully structured academic work" after turning off ChatGPT's "data consent" option.

Scientist Horrified as ChatGPT Deletes All His Research

By Victor Tangermann

A quick perusal of the r/FacebookAIslop subreddit reveals the macabre underbelly of the AI slop world, including seriously twisted videos.

Facebook AI Slop Has Grown So Dark That You May Not Be Prepared

By Victor Tangermann

A film and performing arts major has spoken out about what motivated him to turn his teeth into weapons against the AI onslaught.

Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth

By Victor Tangermann

The Economic Times picked the word "Kafkaesque" as its "Word of the Day." A glaring blunder suggests the whole thing was generated by an AI.

Newspaper Makes Brain-Melting Error in AI-Generated Graphic

By Victor Tangermann

John Jacquez successfully managed a mental illness for years, he says. Then ChatGPT reinforced delusions, spiraling him into "AI psychosis."

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE

A survey found that more than half of CEO respondents said "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI."

Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns

By Victor Tangermann

A Denver Broncos beat writer was confused when a popular Facebook page claimed he had passed away due to a "domestic violence incident."

Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead

Researchers found that as their prompts for OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate.

Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It

By Victor Tangermann

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her.

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

By Victor Tangermann

When AI models are used in a school setting, kids become dumber and meaner after using this technology, according to a new study.

New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development

By Sharon Adarlo

AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

By Sharon Adarlo

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademark applications that featured videos and audio clips of him to thwart AI.

Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies

By Victor Tangermann

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.

AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

By Sharon Adarlo

A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."

Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

By Victor Tangermann

The music distribution platform Bandcamp said it would ban all music that is wholly or significantly made with AI.

Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music

By Frank Landymore

Pete Hegseth has chosen to plug Grok into the Pentagon's classified military networks as part of a broader AI push.

Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks

In a new essay, financial expert Sebastian Mallaby predicts that OpenAI could run out of money "over the next 18 months."

Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money

By Victor Tangermann

Rumors are running online that the Duffer Brother used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last final season of "Stranger Things."

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

By Sharon Adarlo

An indie game developer says he's removing his game from Steam to repent for his sin of using AI-generated assets to make it.

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

By Frank Landymore

People have been posting fake AI images online, claiming to have spotted escaped monkeys in St. Louis, complicating rescue efforts.

AI Implicated as Escaped Monkeys Rampage Through St. Louis

By Victor Tangermann

The man loves his AI girlfriend very, very much, and will one day start a family with her. However that works.

Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother

By Frank Landymore

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Poison Fountain project calls on website owners to feed AI data scrapers a data set designed to sabotage AI models.

Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

By Frank Landymore

a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to one day do their work.

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children

OpenAI's ChatGPT Health will ingest your medical records to generate more relevant responses that shouldn't be acted upon.

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese tech giant Sony is looking to let an AI navigate PlayStation games on the human player's behalf.

Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck

By Victor Tangermann

The National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho.

National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

By Victor Tangermann

Windows PC maker Dell admitted at this year's CES that things have really gotten out of hand, agreeing that people don't buy PCs for AI.

Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features

By Victor Tangermann

Investors are already preparing for that type of major tech sell-off amid ongoing fears of a collapse of an AI bubble.

Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an AI Bubble “Reckoning”

By Victor Tangermann

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.

ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live on stage.

Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated video with over 5 million views on social media purports to show Venezuelans celebrating Nicolas Maduro's kidnapping.

That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop

The Guardian found that Google's AI Overviews' summaries are loaded with inaccurate health information that could put people at risk.

Google’s AI Overviews Caught Giving Dangerous “Health” Advice

By Victor Tangermann

A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.

Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges

By Sharon Adarlo

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.

Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

By Victor Tangermann

Regulators at the Cyberspace Administration of China have proposed new laws meant to protect AI users' mental health.

China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users

Mozilla's new CEO announced that Firefox would become a "modern AI broswer." Its most diehard fans are revolting.

After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features

By Victor Tangermann