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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.
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Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

By Joe Wilkins

Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever for criminals and unsuspecting art collectors to pass fake art off as authentic.
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AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art

By Joe Wilkins

The latest version of ChatGPT still comes up way short of identifying animals on an alphabet poster, a task meant for preschoolers.
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When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

By Joe Wilkins

Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School were sent into lockdown after their AI system misidentified a student's clarinet as a gun.
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AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun

By Joe Wilkins

New research shows a country-wide experiment by Instacart has been charging shoppers different prices for the same product at the same store.
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Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

By Joe Wilkins

The company 2wai went viral after it released an advertisement showing its AI product resurrecting a dead grandmother.
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Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

By Joe Wilkins

Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its AI.
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Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

By Joe Wilkins

Recent data from the US Census Bureau shows that the amount of workers using AI on the job is falling to a dismal rate.
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The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling

By Joe Wilkins

Anthropic researchers published a paper detailing how an AI model started engaging in bad behavior like saying bleach is safe to drink.
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Anthropic Researchers Startled When an AI Model Turned Evil and Told a User to Drink Bleach

By Sharon Adarlo

The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.
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South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster

By Joe Wilkins

New research shows roleplaying romantic relationships with chatbots like Replika can include marriage, homemaking, and even pregnancies.
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People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners

By Joe Wilkins

Fireflies CTO and co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted that his AI transcription startup charged $100 an hour for notes taken by a human.
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Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

By Joe Wilkins

If there's any job artificial intelligence should be good at, it's spamming the internet with algorithmic comments.
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AI Is Failing at the Most Hilarious Task Imaginable

By Joe Wilkins

True3D Labs founder and ex-Meta engineer Daniel Habib explored a "simpler way to watch 3D" right inside your browser.
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Amazing New Tech Turns Your Screen 3D by Tracking Your Eye Position With Your Webcam

By Victor Tangermann

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Prince / Fuse / Getty Images
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Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

By Joe Wilkins

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
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New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann