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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

Eight months after relaxing its policy guidelines around naughty content, ChatGPT is finally loosening its guidelines.

OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut

A new startup is helping job seekers brute force their way into one of the worst job markets since 2009, consequences be damned.

Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

The bill would not only outlaw marriage between a human and AI, but prevent AIs from being recognized as people.

Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage

By Frank Landymore

It's a fascinating look into the effort to drum up consent for an unprecedented crackdown on American cities.

Trump Supporters Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Generate AI Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters

A new survey of high school students and teachers paints a bleak picture of how rapidly AI has taken over schools.

An Astonishing Proportion of High Schoolers Have Had a “Romantic Relationship” With an AI, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Instead of learning about loss from the death of a family pet, this lesson comes from an artificially generated voice module.

Little Girl Sobs While Saying Goodbye to Her Broken AI Toy

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's Sora 2 app quickly turned into a rocky road. Copyright guardrails have frustrated many users and driven them away.

OpenAI’s Sora Is in Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

In a new report, Sanders asserts that AI and automation has the potential to put some 100 million US workers out of the job.

Bernie Sanders Has a Fascinating Idea About How to Prevent AI From Wiping Out the Economy

DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee announced that the company will "not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork."

President of DC Comics Says It Will Never Use AI

By Victor Tangermann

Sora 2 users started sharing clips of influencer Jake Paul coming out of the closet and giving makeup tutorials.

Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup

By Victor Tangermann

The investment bubble created by AI hype is already magnitudes bigger than the dot-com and subprime mortgage bubbles, one analyst warns.

AI Investment Is Already So Much Larger Than the Subprime Mortgage Bubble That You’ll Physically Flinch

A horribly mangled AI rendition of a rental house on Zillow shows a two-story building in a far-too-flattering light.

This Listing for a Rental House Is Mangled With AI So Badly That You’ll Cackle Out Loud

By Victor Tangermann

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

Many experts are concerned that an AI bubble could wreak havoc on the economy — but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can't wait for it to burst.

Jeff Bezos Says AI Bubble Is Good Because It Will Eliminate the Weak

By Victor Tangermann

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That’s So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

According to proponents, humanity should create AI lifeforms at all cost — and so be it if they surpass and eliminate us.

Top AI Industry Figures Secretly Hoping AI Will Wipe Out Humankind

By Frank Landymore

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI’s Sora 2 to Harass Victim

By Frank Landymore

A 13-year-old Florida teen was arrested for asking OpenAI's ChatGPT how to kill a friend during class in what he claimed to be a prank.

13-Year-Old Arrested for Asking ChatGPT How to Kill His Friend

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study from Yale University shows that AI hasn't had much of an impact on jobs as many have predicted or feared.

New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs

By Sharon Adarlo

Children are easily enamored by ChatGPT and other AI chatbots that can keep a conversation going, many parents are discovering.

Parents Are Giving Their Toddlers ChatGPT on Voice Mode to Keep Them Entertained, and It’s Alarming

By Frank Landymore

Hallucinating AI platforms are spitting out nonexistent landmarks and it's putting tourists in dangerous situations.

AI Endangering Tourists by Sending Them to Nonexistent Landmarks in Hazardous Locations

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Mourning Women Say OpenAI Killed Their AI Boyfriends

By Sharon Adarlo

AI data centers in the US are spiking nearby customers electricity bills and bringing other unexpected costs.

AI Data Centers Are Skyrocketing Regular People’s Energy Bills

New Yorkers appear to have plenty of reasons to ridicule and criticize AI startup Friend's latest offering.

AI “Friend” Startup Overwhelmed With Hatred

By Victor Tangermann

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

The multinational IT firm has laid off 11,000 employees as part of a $865 million plan to "upskill" its "reinventors."

Accenture CEO Says It’s Sacking Employees Who Won’t Embrace AI

A viral video made on OpenAI's Sora 2 that looks like a 1990s toy ad makes fun of financier Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump.

Sora 2 Is Creating Ads for “Epstein Island” Children’s Toys

By Sharon Adarlo

California Gov. Newsom says the new law fills the gap left without any federal AI legislation and is a step in the right direction.

Gavin Newsom Signs Law Cracking Down on AI Industry

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says building machines smarter than us will ultimately lead to the end of humanity.

Godfather of AI Says We’re Barreling Straight Toward Human Extinction

OpenAI's new Sora 2-powered TikTok rival will generate a video of the company's CEO Sam Altman shoplifting.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generates Realistic Videos of People Shoplifting

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI introduced a new shopping feature in ChatGPT but it pissed off people online who think it's a shameless money grab.

OpenAI Ridiculed for Its Latest Cash Grab

By Sharon Adarlo

In an unsettling promotional clip, a synthesized version of OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, announces the company's answer to Meta's Vibes app.

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

An AI startup called friend has plastered the New York City subway system in advertisements -- and furious riders are vandalizing them.

New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign

People all over the world now think there are conscious entities within the AI chatbots they use everyday such as OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Across the World, People Say They’re Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

By Sharon Adarlo

CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there's no bubble coming for the AI sector — which should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous.

You Might Want to Ditch Your AI Investments Now That Jim Cramer Says No Bubble Is Coming

By Victor Tangermann

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Compsci Grads Are Cooked

By Sharon Adarlo

Photoshop and Acrobat developer Adobe could soon be in serious trouble thanks to the emergence of generative AI.

Adobe Is in Serious Trouble Because of AI, Morgan Stanley Warns

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre and clearly AI-generated video on Truth Social about a QAnon conspiracy theory.

Trump’s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video

By Victor Tangermann

A planned data center in Indianapolis by Google was shut down after residents protested its possible environmental impacts.

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

By Sharon Adarlo

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.

In Situations Where Most Humans Think You’re Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You’re Behaving Like an Angel

By Victor Tangermann

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Prince / Fuse / Getty Images

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

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.

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.

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.

Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

By Victor Tangermann