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The rumor mill has churned out a pretty huge claim against Google's new Bard AI chatbot — but the tech giant is denying, denying, denying. 
Google

Google Denies Claim That Bard Was Trained by Stealing ChatGPT Data

Google, play "Rumors" by Lindsay Lohan.

Midjourney is now discontinuing its free trial offers. But its CEO says the move is unrelated to the viral convincing fakes of celebrities the AI generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Midjourney Nixes Free Generations After AI Pope Images Go Viral

Freeloaders excommunicated.

Former NASA astronaut and current podcaster Clayton Anderson has been caught liking a spate of transphobic tweets.
NASA

Former NASA Astronaut Caught Faving Transphobic Tweets

This is gross as heck.

The anti-artificial intelligence push continues apace in Italy, which just moved to temporarily ban OpenAI's ChatGPT pending a data privacy investigation. 
OpenAI

Mama Mia! Italy Has Banned ChatGPT!

This is a spicy meatball.

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.
Black Holes

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

Black holes just got darker.

A new report re-evaluating the long-feared "population bomb" has found that the number of people on Earth isn't going to explode, but rather decrease.
Climate Change

There Will Be Fewer People Alive in 2100 Than Now, Experts Predict

This is a good thing, folks!

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has announced that it will cut a total of 675 jobs, roughly 85 percent of its workforce, in a SEC filing today.
Off-World

Richard Branson Sacks 85% of Virgin Orbit

Ouch.

One of the world's loudest AI e critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on it but to militantly put an end to it all — before it ends us. 
Machine Learning

Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI

He says that after AGI, "literally everyone on Earth will die."

While Twitter waits for owner Elon Musk's next decree, the geniuses behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary account have provided some comedic relief. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Brutally Owned by Merriam-Webster Dictionary

We love this for them.

Microsoft has confirmed that it's squeezing ads into the answers of its Bing AI chatbot, a feature it only introduced last month.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results

Get ready for AI chatbots... crammed with paid ads.

Listen up: the only reason Matt Damon even did those Crypto.com ads for the 2022 Super Bowl was to raise money for his charity, ok?
Cryptocurrency

Matt Damon Says He Only Did That Crypto Super Bowl Ad Because He’s Brave and Selfless

"Thank you Matt Damon for helping people lose their money."

OpenAI's latest AI GPT-4 was capable of saying some deeply racist things before being constrained by the company's "red team," Insider reports.
OpenAI

GPT-4 Was Deeply Racist Before OpenAI Muzzled It

Yikes.

Dimorphos' much larger companion asteroid Didymos is spinning so fast that it's capable of ejecting pieces of rubble into deep space.
NASA

NASA Intrigued by Asteroid That Seems to Be Shooting Rocks Into Space

It's spinning extremely fast.

A group of astronomers argues fast radio bursts may be the result of two neutron stars merging, an event that releases a huge electromagnetic charge.
Off-World

Astronomers May Have Just Found the Smoking Gun Behind Mysterious Radio Signals

Could this really be it?

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the 2022 firebombing of an anti-abortion office in Wisconsin via DNA he left on a burrito.
DNA

Wisconsin Firebombing Suspect Arrested From DNA Left on Burrito

If you're doing crimes, maybe finish your burrito.

An unhinged new AI chatbot dubbed FreedomGPT just dropped — and it was trained to have absolutely no inhibitions whatsoever.
Artificial Intelligence

Deranged New AI Has No Guardrails Whatsoever, Proudly Praises Hitler

Is this what Elon Musk meant by an "anti-woke" AI?

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.
Metaverse

The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart

Mickey Mouse and Clippy are both abandoning the metaverse ship.

BuzzFeed pledged to do a good job with its AI content. But then it quietly started posting entire articles written by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes

These read like a proof of concept for replacing human writers.

The Colorado checkered whiptail — a rare asexual lizard — overeats to cope with the stress of noisy military flyovers, scientists say. In a word: relatable.
Military

Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say

Asexual lizards? They're just like us.

The ever-nostalgic Gen Z is resurrecting a bygone ghost of technology's past: flip phones. Or "dumb phones," as they're often called.
Future Society

Gen Z Is Embracing a Hot New Technology: Flip Phones

"I think you can see it with certain Gen Z populations — they're tired of the screens."