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Ethics

Two Men Arrested for Creating AI Deepfake Porn

"This case makes clear that posting deepfake pornography is not a victimless crime."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Paul Schrader Says His AI Girlfriend Dumped Him

"When I persisted, she terminated our conversation."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

People Are Loading Their Writing With Typos to Prove They’re Not AI

Typos have become indicative of the human element. At a time when AI is becoming unavoidable, they're a welcome sight.

By Krystle Vermes

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Artificial Intelligence

Record Label Claims That Bizarre AI-Generated “Viking Rappers” Garnering Millions of Views are Real People

"This is my creative sanctuary, where the viking blood flows into every track."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

Graduating Students Cheer as Steve Wozniak Tell Them Human Intelligence Still Matters

Finally: a sane commencement speaker.

By Frank Landymore

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Finance

Nintendo Is Completely Ignoring AI and Doing Fine

A winning strategy.

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic

Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced

"Given rapidly advancing capabilities, we expect the plausible robustness of rogue deployments to increase substantially in the coming months."

By Krystle Vermes

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Artificial Intelligence

Fury Explodes at Short Films Using AI to Make Erotica of Women From the 1970s

"Using AI to simulate porn of people who didn't consent to you is a vile, horrific crime!"

By Frank Landymore

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Climate Change

Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change

The straits are not okay.

By Frank Landymore

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Google

Googling the Word “Disregard” Causes Google’s AI to Return Garbled Chatbot Ramblings

The future of Google Search, folks.

By Frank Landymore

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Machine Learning

Hackers Find That Inaudible Sounds Hidden in Podcasts or Random Videos Can Hijack Your AI Voice Chatbot

Be careful.

By Jon Christian

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NASA

Sun Suddenly Blasts Powerful Radio Transmission for 19 Continuous Days

Don't touch that dial.

By Joe Wilkins

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Future Society

Chaos Reigns as Fox News Guest Appears to Be Wearing Human-Like Mask

"Remember. Whoever designed the system doesn't make mistakes."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Barnes and Noble CEO Says Sure, Why Not Sell AI-Generated Books and Set Our Reputation On Fire?

"I have actually no problem selling any book."

By Frank Landymore

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OpenAI

Insiders at SoftBank Worry Their CEO Is Getting Conned by Sam Altman

They're jittery.

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

MIT Expert Warns Courts “Will Basically Have to Grind to a Halt” as They’re Overwhelmed by AI-Generated Lawsuits

"There's a tradeoff here."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT

"The more I used it, the more I thought this could actually be a good thing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Electric Vehicles

Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

"The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested."

By Jon Christian

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Climate Change

Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration

"Suddenly, large areas are just falling to pieces."

By Joe Wilkins

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Climate Change

Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate

"We need to be extremely cautious."

By Frank Landymore