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The embattled chatbot company Character.AI is banning minors from its platform. Unsurprisingly, the site's users have a lot of thoughts.

Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group representing Studio Ghibli and other major Japanese publishers is drawing a line in the sand against OpenAI's copyright abuses.

Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work

By Frank Landymore

Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients.

Fox News Falls for AI-Generated Footage of Poor People Raging About Food Stamps Being Shut Down, Runs False Story That Has to Be Updated With Huge Correction

It's becoming shockingly commonplace to spot real estate listings with glaringly AI-generated images that apply a thick coat of paint.

Landlords Are Using AI to Make Photos of Nasty Apartments Look Clean and Modern

By Victor Tangermann

The federal reserve chair is watching AI's effect on job growth "very carefully" as he decides on tax rates.

Jerome Powell Deeply Concerned About AI’s Effects on Job Market

A video shows an AI-generated take on the iconic sitcom "Friends" that's so bizarre that it's uncomfortable to watch.

This AI-Generated Sitcom Is Actually Unsettling to Watch

By Victor Tangermann

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI’s Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Federal immigration officers are busting out their phones to scan people's faces and confirm their residency.

ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People’s Faces to Check If They’re Citizens

Amazon is accused of controlling workers through a surveillance dragnet, while skirting responsibility for their wellbeing.

Amazon Tells Driver to Keep Delivering Packages Amid Raging Wildfire

A bipartisan bill wants to keep kids under 18 away from AI companion bots, seeking penalties for AI companies that don't comply.

New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chatbot maker Character.AI, accused of driving teens to suicide, says it will move to largely ban minors from talking with its chatbots.

Character.AI, Accused of Driving Teens to Suicide, Says It Will Ban Minors From Using Its Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler argued that OpenAI isn't doing enough to mitigate users' severe mental health issues.

Former OpenAI Insider Says It’s Failed Its Users

By Victor Tangermann

Starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services began receiving texts and emails baring the bad news.

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

Illusrtation by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images

Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

Elon Musk's Grokipedia appears to be heavily relying on Wikipedia, copying many pages almost word for word.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

Diella will soon be sharing her "children" with government officials loyal to Edi Rama's party, the center-left Partia Socialiste.

World’s First AI Minister is “Pregnant” With 83 Offspring Government Announces

New research shows that several top AI models are actively ignoring explicit instructions to shut themselves down.

Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”

By Frank Landymore

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on the government to break up OpenAI in an effort to stop the firm from wiping out jobs.

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts told Business Insider, their employer's attempts to use AI are backfiring.

EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly

By Victor Tangermann

AI investor Matt Shumer posted AI-generated, first-person-shooter video game footage, claiming it's the future of video games.

We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game

By Victor Tangermann

Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro told NPR that he's not a fan of generative AI, saying he'd "rather die" than use it.

Guillermo del Toro on Using AI: “I’d Rather Die”

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence isn't just coming for human actors' jobs — even our furry companions are struggling to find work in Hollywood.

AI Is Even Putting Animal Actors Out of Work

By Victor Tangermann

In an internal memo, Meta informed its risk management workers their jobs were being automated thanks to advances in AI.

Meta Tells Employees Their Jobs Are Being Automated

The company has brought on a defacto consultant to oversee the company's transition to AI-based script writing.

The WWE Says It’ll Use AI to Write Storylines, in the Latest Case of Forcing AI Into Everybody’s Lives

Amazon revealed smart glasses for delivery drivers that can scan packages and give directions without discussing ethical implications.

Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The AI billboard asks you to visit a website called Replacement.AI, which brags that humans are "no longer necessary."

Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard

By Frank Landymore

The University of North Carolina School of Law held a mock trial in which the "jury" was made up of the AIs ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude.

Law School Tests Trial With Jury Made Up of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude

By Frank Landymore

Legal experts are now growing incensed not just about what's going into the chatbots, but what's coming out.

OpenAI’s Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger

The self-driving squad car is rolling out as part of a year-long trial in coordination with the non-profit Policing Lab.

Florida Unleashes Autonomous Police Cruisers That Deploy Thermal Imaging Drones

Experts confirmed almost immediately that OpenAI's latest AI browser, dubbed Atlas, is "definitely vulnerable to prompt injection."

OpenAI’s New AI Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks

By Victor Tangermann

Tech entrepreneurs and insiders agree that the extreme AI hype is getting in the way of making the most out of the tech.

What Tech Insiders Actually Think of AI Is Extremely Revealing

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has its work cut out to justify the existence of its newfangled ChatGPT Atlas browser. It's extremely slow and vulnerable to exploits.

OpenAI’s New AI Web Browser Is a Bit of a Mess

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.

OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite having a commanding lead over her opponent, a viral AI video surfaced appearing to show Catherine Connolly concede the election.

Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral

OpenAI twice relaxed ChatGPT restrictions around self-harm and suicide discussions, an amended lawsuit over a minor's suicide alleges.

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian entertainer and TV host Alan Hamel says the AI clone of his late wife, Suzanne Somers, is indistinguishable from the real thing.

Alan Hamel Says He’s Created an AI Clone of His Deceased Wife Suzanne Somers That’s So Good He Can’t Tell the Difference

By Victor Tangermann

AI safety analyst Steven Adler began to doubt his own expertise after reading a lengthy conversation a man had with ChatGPT.

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

A huge and ideologically diverse cohort of public figures have signed a letter calling for a "prohibition" on building AI superintelligence.

Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A quick search on social media reveals that AI slop continues to find its way into Spotify users' Discover Weekly personalized playlists.

AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists

By Victor Tangermann

The world's leading Non-government organizations are weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery porn.

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

President Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself crap-bombing protestors on the same day as the "No Kings" protests.

President Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Spraying Explosive Diarrhea on Peaceful Protestors

By Frank Landymore

Even former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation.

Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project

By Victor Tangermann

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for consumers in the west.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

AI deployments have a problem: they can humiliate people who don't look the way the AI expects them to look.

DMV’s AI System Says Woman Doesn’t Have a Human Face

Reddit's conversational AI Reddit Answers highlighted users' positive experiences managing their pain with heroin.

Reddit’s AI Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids

A woman successfully used ChatGPT to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties.

Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer

By Victor Tangermann

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

By Victor Tangermann

It's clearer than ever than OpenAI doesn't have anything close to a handle on its disastrous copyright situation.

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses.

Police Issue Warning About “AI Homeless Man” Prank

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

By Victor Tangermann

In an analysis of recent economic trends, economists wrote that "jobless growth" is pretty much the new normal.

Goldman Sachs Says Gen Z Is Pretty Much Permanently Screwed

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.

People Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Mock the Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

By Victor Tangermann

Much of the rest of the world is growing deeply concerned about AI as well, a new Pew Research Center poll has shown.

International Polling Shows Fear of AI Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Even the biggest players in AI are losing billions — "brutal" economics that highlight growing concerns of an enormous AI bubble.

The Economics of Running an AI Company Are Disastrous

By Victor Tangermann

Two Months Ago, Sam Altman Was Boasting That OpenAI Didn’t Have to Do Sexbots. Now It’s Doing Sexbots

By Victor Tangermann

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would've required AI companies to prevent minors from engaging with dangerous AI content.

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill to Protect Kids From Predatory AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that posting as few as 250 "poisoned" documents online can introduce "backdoor" vulnerabilities in an AI model.

Researchers Find It’s Shockingly Easy to Cause AI to Lose Its Mind by Posting Poisoned Documents Online

By Victor Tangermann

The lead US military commander in South Korea told reporters he's becoming really close with ChatGPT lately.

Top US Army General Says He’s Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

By Victor Tangermann

A jealous wife tries to get her husband's smartphone because she suspects him of infidelity.

ChatGPT Is Giving Men Such Bad Advice on Dating That It May Actually Be Trying to Keep Them Single