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An Australian child services worker used ChatGPT to write a sensitive report about a child — and ended up getting the tech banned.

Child Welfare Worker in Trouble After Using ChatGPT to Submit Bizarre Report About Sex Doll

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT's new advanced voice mode has users all a-titter — including the one who tricked it into singing Cardi B's hit song "WAP."

Someone Tricked ChatGPT Into Singing “WAP”… and May We Just Say “Yikes”

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to "remember" prior conversations — and it's very easily exploited.

You Can Insert False Memories Into ChatGPT, Researcher Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but that access is very limited.

Authors Suing OpenAI Will Get to See Its Secret Training Data in Heavily Locked Down Room

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.

OpenAI Pivoting From “Benefiting Humanity” to “Making Lots of Money”

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is losing even more executives — right as Reuters reports that it's looking to restructure its core business.

OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

The official OpenAI Newsroom account on X, formerly Twitter, was hacked by someone to promote a fake token as part of a phishing attack.

Official OpenAI Twitter Account Taken Over by Hackers to Shill Crypto Scheme

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waxed prolific about the future of artificial intelligence and chose some strange units of measurement to describe.

Sam Altman Invents Bizarre New Unit of Time for Measuring When His Promises Will Come True

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI Staff Upset by Company’s Horrendous New Logo

By Frank Landymore

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

A ChatGPT conversation went viral on Reddit purportedly showing the chatbot reaching out to a user first. Other users are crying foul.

OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted

By Victor Tangermann

o1-preview's "chain-of-thought reasoning" allows users to get a glimpse of what the model is "thinking." It also shows how its deceiving.

OpenAI’s Strawberry “Thought Process” Sometimes Shows It Scheming to Trick Users

By Victor Tangermann

In a creepy new video, ChatGPT's voice mode is heard screaming eerily when a user prompted the OpenAI chatbot to do so.

It Turns Out ChatGPT’s Voice Mode Can Scream, and It’s an Upsetting Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's newfangled o1-preview AI model is still struggling with the absolute basics — like counting letters.

OpenAI’s New “Strawberry” AI Is Still Making Idiotic Mistakes

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released its long-awaited AI model, which was previously code-named "Strawberry," called OpenAI o1-preview.

OpenAI Just Released Its Long-Awaited “Strawberry” Model

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is rumored to release an AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason as soon as this week.

OpenAI Launching “Strawberry” Model With “Human-Like Reasoning” as Soon as This Week

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates, the seventh-richest man in the world, has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research.

Bill Gates, Who Could Afford a Private Army of Researchers, Says He Does His Research Using ChatGPT, Which Makes Mistakes Constantly

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Financial Times reports that OpenAI is looking to shed its non-profit status once and for all after years of being "capped profit."

After Years of Chasing Money, OpenAI Reportedly Giving Up on Being a “Nonprofit”

By Victor Tangermann

A chef in Dubai used OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to come up with a pizza recipe — and as it turns out, it started selling like hotcakes.

Chef Admits His Smash Hit Pizza Was Invented by ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI found that its latest AI model GPT-4o can unexpectedly imitate users' voices without their permission.

ChatGPT Went Rogue, Spoke In People’s Voices Without Their Permission

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI keeps losing top talent, indicating some considerable inner turmoil. Are they worried OpenAI is making empty promises?

Why Are OpenAI’s Most Prominent Employees Leaving?

By Victor Tangermann

John Schulman, AI safety researcher and OpenAI cofounder, has departed the ChatGPT creator and joined the ranks of OpenAI rival Anthropic.

OpenAI Cofounder Quits to Join Rival Started by Other Defectors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The voice mode that comes with OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model seems to have some trouble counting and, er, breathing.

ChatGPT Voice Mode Is Having Serious Trouble Counting to 100

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly developed effective tools for marking and tracking AI-generated content. Why isn't it releasing them?

OpenAI Has Software That Detects AI Writing With 99.9 Percent Accuracy, Refuses to Release It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new video, OpenAI's GPT-4o is heard telling a user that it apparently needs to breathe just like everyone else.

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Voice Mode Says It Needs to Breathe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI entered the AI search market this week with a prototype of a search tool called SearchGPT. There's an error in its demo.

OpenAI Reveals AI-Powered Search Engine, Which Instantly Makes Factual Mistake in Demo

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As OpenAI releases yet another new GPT model, CEO Sam Altman has finally admitted that it might be time for a new name.

Sam Altman Admits Its Letters-and-Numbers Salad Product Names Like “GPT-4o Mini” Are Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI wants to see the notes to assess The New York Times' copyright claims, in the newspaper's legal battle against the AI company.

OpenAI Demands to See All Notes by New York Times Reporters

By Frank Landymore

In a recent survey, a pair of researchers found that many ChatGPT users have interesting misconceptions about the OpenAI chatbot.

Most Users Think ChatGPT Is Conscious, Survey Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI spent only a single week safety testing its new model GPT-4o, according to insiders at the company.

Whistleblowers Say OpenAI Broke Promise to Rigorously Test AI for Danger Before Releasing

By Frank Landymore

Former safety researcher William Saunders said that he didn't want to work for the "Titanic of AI," so he quit.

OpenAI Researcher Says He Quit When He Realized the Upsetting Truth

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a computer virus that can use ChatGPT to disguise itself by changing its own code and write human-like emails.

Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself

By Victor Tangermann

Less than a year after joining xAI's founding team, one of the researchers poached by Elon Musk has apparently returned to OpenAI.

AI Researcher Elon Musk Poached From OpenAI Returns to OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

We asked OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, which is designed to browse the web, about a current event — and it sent us directly to spam-ridden AI sludge.

ChatGPT-4o Is Sending Users to a Scammy Website That Floods Your Screen With Fake Virus Warnings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's ChatGPT was caught giving spitting out false voting information for battleground states and even omitted crucial voting data.

ChatGPT Is Giving Bad Info About Where to Vote in Battleground States

By Sharon Adarlo

The Voice Mode assistant for ChatGPT, originally teased in May, has been delayed for at least another month, according to OpenAI.

OpenAI Fans Slam Delay of ChatGPT Voice Mode, as Company Hints at Trouble Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati suggested that the artists who lose their jobs to AI probably deserve it.

OpenAI Exec Says AI Will Kill Creative Jobs That “Shouldn’t Have Been There in the First Place”

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI confirmed that it has removed VIC, the AI chatbot running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, from public view.

OpenAI Imprisons AI That Was Running for Mayor in Wyoming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After leaving OpenAI, founding member and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is starting his own firm to build "safe" superintelligence.

OpenAI Scientist Ousted After Failed Coup Against Sam Altman Is Starting a New AI Company

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI just named former NSA director Paul Nakasone to its board. Infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, for one, had some thoughts.

Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Bloomberg, neither party expects a direct boost in revenues from their partnership that is nonetheless significant.

It Turns Out Apple Is Only Paying OpenAI in Exposure

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT is either ignoring or generating fake links to articles from Business Insider even though the two organizations have a deal.

ChatGPT Is Hallucinating Fake Article Links by One of Its Publishing Partners

By Sharon Adarlo

Billionaire Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Musk didn't say why, but it's hard to see why he wouldn't.

Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI After It Releases Emails Showing He Was Totally on Board With What He’s Now Criticizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the OpenAI directors who ousted CEO Sam Altman is issuing some stark warnings about the future of unchecked artificial intelligence.

Former OpenAI Director Warns There Are Bad Things AI Can Do Besides Kill You

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a shocking admission about his ex-employer's plans for AGI.

Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start AGI Bidding War With China and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fusion startup Helion is in talks for a deal with OpenAI to "buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers."

OpenAI Negotiating to Buy “Vast Quantities” of Fusion Power, Which Doesn’t Exist Yet

By Victor Tangermann

The analysis used several AI models to compare the OpenAI voice to the voices of around 600 actresses, including Scarlett Johansson.

Forensic Analysis Finds Overwhelming Similarities Between OpenAI’s Voice and Scarlett Johansson

By Frank Landymore

A former OpenAI researcher became so convinced that the technology would usher in doom for humanity, he left the company and called it out.

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

By Noor Al-Sibai

A coalition of AI workers are pushing for a "Right to Warn" the public about AI safety concerns, citing concerns over the employee silencing.

OpenAI Insiders Say They’re Being Silenced About Danger

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During a recent summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was stumped after being asked how his company's AIs actually work, pointing to a larger issue.

Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn’t Actually Understand How Its AI Works

By Victor Tangermann

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than 10 days after dissolving its old safety team, OpenAI has announced a one — with CEO Sam Altman at its helm.

Sam Altman Replaces OpenAI’s Fired Safety Team With Himself and His Cronies

By Noor Al-Sibai

xAI, the artificial intelligence startup founded by Elon Musk, has garnered billions of dollars in its latest round of funding.

Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

Leave it to The Onion to excoriate OpenAI and its horrendous handling of the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT fiasco.

The Onion’s Take on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Disaster Is Pretty Much Perfect

By Frank Landymore

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A resurfaced video shows an OpenAI engineer conceding that it's "deeply unfair" to "build AI and take everyone's job away."

Video Shows OpenAI Engineer Admitting It’s “Deeply Unfair” to “Build AI and Take Everyone’s Job Away”

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that 52 percent of answers to programming questions generated by ChatGPT were incorrect.

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

By Sharon Adarlo

Low-paid African content moderators, many of whom are living with PTSD, are calling on Biden to help ensure fair working conditions.

African Workers Doing OpenAI’s Training Say They’re Being Subjected to “Modern Day Slavery”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After OpenAI copied actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new voice assistant, the head honcho at Microsoft bashed human-like AIs.

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal

By Sharon Adarlo

Scarlett Johansson is furious that OpenAI seemingly mimiced her voice in its ChatGPT update, which could be an "appropriation of likeness."

Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue

By Frank Landymore