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Ethics

Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying

"This is an absolute waste of my time."

Data Privacy

Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family

"They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy."

Ethics

Teenage AI Meat Proxy Stranded on “Widowmaker” Mountain After Following AI Instructions

"Claude has never been in that specific area, has never been on that route, and has never been in the outdoors."

OpenAI

OpenAI Publicist Tries to Shut Down Interviewer When Sam Altman Is Asked About Woman Who Killed Herself After Talking to ChatGPT

"I want to be respectful, but I'd like to move on."

Bacteria

Something About Russia Insisting Everything Is Fine After the Lab Leak Death Is Making Us Nervous

A technician at a lab that studied the plague died of "pneumonia of undetermined etiology."

Ethics

Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use

Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiting for?

Climate Change

As the Planet Burns, Massive Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies Goes to the Supreme Court

This is one to watch.

Ethics

Parents Are AI-Generating Pictures of Their Kids Instead of Paying for School Photos

"ChatGPT for the win."

Ethics

Anthropic Reports User to the Police

Watch what you tell Claude.

Meta

Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users

"It's inevitable."

Ethics

Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse

"You feel helpless."

Astronomy

Our Solar System Is Unstable and Doomed for Destruction

Finally, some good news!

RX and Medicine

The Brutality of Lethal Injection Is Unfathomable

"Pentobarbital is not a painkiller, and when it is injected by the state, no one can say when a prisoner stops feeling pain."

Future Society

Particularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking ChatGPT Which Candidate to Vote For, Which Sounds a Bit Like AI Is Just Voting Now Via Meat Proxies

"Whatever you lean towards, it will speak positively about it."

Ethics

Sam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of AI

The "world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology."

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Admits Why Tesla Robotaxis Can’t Be Trusted at Night

The obvious fix is still not on his radar.

Ethics

Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers

The tech industry has fully lost the plot.

Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Hackers Impersonate Anthropic Employee to Extract AI Secrets

Not great!

Food

McDonalds Has Secretly Deployed AI Models to Determine Exactly What to Charge You for Its Mid Fast Food Burgers

Get yourself an AI Price-Hiked Big Mac with cheese.

Neuroscience and Brain

You’ll Never Guess Which Political Ideology People With Low Cognitive Ability Are Drawn Toward, According to New Research

Painful.