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A woman working for a generative AI image startup says the tech led her into a manic bipolar episode, which triggered psychosis.

Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever for criminals and unsuspecting art collectors to pass fake art off as authentic.

AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art

As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.

Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI

New anecdotes suggest software engineering students at elite universities are struggling to find jobs, though explanations vary.

Top Software Engineering Students Can’t Get a Job Because of AI

Police agency Europol has imagined a not-so-distant future in which criminals hijack autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots.

Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave

By Victor Tangermann

Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything

The market incentives at play in the AI industry are creating a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis over chatbots, physicians warn.

Doctors Warn That AI Companions Are Dangerous

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It

Officials at Beverly Hills High School have unleashed a panopticon of AI surveillance cameras, drones, and audio monitors on their students.

Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms

Scammers on TikTok are using AI-generated slop videos to sell dubious seeds for hosta plant varieties that don't exist.

TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.

Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

By Sharon Adarlo

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called for the halt of new data center construction to let democracy catch up to technology.

Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers

A hacker found a way into the backend of AI startup Doublespeed, which offers customers access to a massive phone farm network.

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram

Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School were sent into lockdown after their AI system misidentified a student's clarinet as a gun.

AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in damages.

“I Guess They Used AI or Something”: Trump Says BBC Journalists Deepfaked “Words in My Mouth, Literally”

By Victor Tangermann

CoreWeave's share price plunged 46 percent in just six weeks, with $33 billion of value going up in smoke, amid concerns over an AI bubble.

CoreWeave Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Stock Value Over the Past Six Months

By Victor Tangermann

The Washington Post said it will continue deploying its error riddled, AI-generated podcasts, because "this is how products get built."

Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment

By Frank Landymore

As generative AI becomes even more effective at mimicking real images, liberals are starting to fall for more misinformation.

Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes

Following major backlash on AI toys, Mattel confirmed that it won't be releasing its first OpenAI-powered toy before the end of the year.

As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year

By Victor Tangermann

Top figures in the AI industry seem deathly paranoid about the apocalyptic risk of AI, but are they grounded in reality?

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating

By Frank Landymore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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