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Meta is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women — even as it plans to move forward with AI "characters" that mimic them. 
Meta

Facebook Is Creating Fake AI-Powered Black Women While Changing Its Rules So It’s Okay to Harass Real Ones

Fake users apparently take precedence over real-life people.

Stalwart journal publisher Springer Nature is asking researchers to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their work.
Artificial Intelligence

The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work

"I find it ridiculous. It’s jumping on the AI bandwagon, where we throw AI at about anything, useful or not."

Users on the prediction market Polymarket are gleefully betting on the devastation caused by the Los Angeles Palisades wildfire.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Platforms Like Polymarket Now Taking Bets on Los Angeles Fire Devastation

"Polymarket should be shut down for this."

An engineer created an ungodly ChatGPT-enabled robotic rifle that can aim and fire bullets. OpenAI shut him down pretty quickly.
OpenAI

OpenAI Cuts Off Engineer Who Created ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle

"We proactively identified this violation of our policies and notified the developer to cease this activity."

Meta's confusing new hate speech rules now explicitly allow users to make shockingly misogynistic claims on Facebook and Instagram.
Future Society

Facebook Now Allows Calling Women Personal Property

Misogyny is now Facebook-approved.

Real estate mogul Keith Wasserman, who has called for cutting property taxes, begged for "private firefighters" to save his house.
Future Society

Cybertruck Owner Who Decried Taxes Mocked for Begging for Help as California Wildfire Threatens His Property

"Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades... Will pay any amount."

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California is under an evacuation order due to a spreading wildfire.
NASA

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Evacuated as Los Angeles Burns

It's a rapidly changing situation.

Last month, CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski boasted that he hadn't hired anyone in a year because of AI. Now he's worried about his own job.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Who Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI Now Distressed That AI Will Replace His Job Too

"To me AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included."

An engineer who goes by STS 3D has invented an AI-powered robot that can aim a rifle at terrifying speeds.
OpenAI

Engineer Creates OpenAI-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle, Rides It Like Mechanical Bull

"This is Skynet build version 0.0.420.69."

Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Kissing Without Their Consent
Artificial Intelligence

Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Kissing Without Their Consent

Beyond creepy.

Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds
Artificial Intelligence

Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds

It's costing tenants billions of dollars every year.

Officials revealed that the soldier, who blew up a rented Tesla Cybertruck outside of a Trump hotel, used ChatGPT to plan his attack.
OpenAI

Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT to Plan His Attack

A weird new development.

An Arizona man who's been on death row for going on two decades is begging the state's highest court to get it over with already.
Future Society

Death Row Prisoner Requests to Be Executed as Soon as Possible

An unusual request.

The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which users say gave them offensive messages.
Artificial Intelligence

Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities

Yikes.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping changes that seem like they'll open the door to hate speech.
Future Society

Zuckerberg Announces New Measures to Increase Hate Speech on Facebook

"I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms."

The FBI has released extensive, first-person footage recorded by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar on a pair of Meta smart glasses.
Future Society

New Orleans Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, FBI Says

The footage is bone-chilling.

Amazon's Prime streaming service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film "Nosferatu" with an appalling, seemingly AI-generated poster.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”

"A horrible one-two punch of anti-art sentiment."

In a fight on social media, Elon Musk decided to use a slur against disabled people — and it's far from the first time. 
Elon Musk

As He Calls for “Positivity” on Twitter, Elon Musk Keeps Using a Disgusting Slur Against the Intellectually Disabled as a Bullying Insult

"No wonder this algorithm is so messed up."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now claiming that the firm is nearing the dawn of AGI — and that he knows how to make it happen.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI

"This sounds like science fiction right now, and somewhat crazy to even talk about it."

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OpenAI

It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions

"People use it much more than we expected."