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It's only been a few days since gaming streamer Atrioc admitted to buying deepfake porn of his colleagues, but in the interim, all hell has broken loose.
Artificial Intelligence

The Deepfake Porn Scandal Is Tearing the Streaming Community Apart

"What are you talking about? Like these mental gymnastics man."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dave Rubin says that Twitter's "whole situation" is "'a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.'" Miraculously, we agree — but for different reasons.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Apparently Thinks Twitter Is a “Flaming Dumpster Rolling Down the Street”

Finally, something we can all agree on.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China is getting its own equivalent of OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT, courtesy of the country's largest internet search engine Baidu.
OpenAI

Chinese Company Gearing Up to Release Powerful ChatGPT Competitor

AI chatbots, so hot right now.

By Victor Tangermann

CNET's sister site Bankrate published a new AI generated article -- and, like CNET's, it wasn't the most accurate thing we've ever seen.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Sister Site Restarts AI Articles, Immediately Publishes Idiotic Error

After we reached out with questions, they deleted it.

By Jon Christian

The Partiful event invite startup has admitted that it won't be turning a profit with investor money — but will be partying on regardless.
Future Society

Party Startup Says It Has Zero Plans to Make Any Money With Investors’ Funds

"Enjoy it babes."

By Noor Al-Sibai

We Tested OpenAI’s New AI-Detector and Uhhhhh
OpenAI

We Tested OpenAI’s New AI-Detector and Uhhhhh

Spoiler alert: it's terrible.

By Victor Tangermann

Colossal Sciences, a self-branded "de-extinction" company, has rallied another significant amount of funding and has completed sequencing a dodo genome.
Science & Energy

Startup Backed By “Jurassic World” Producer Says It Will Revive Extinct Dodo Using Complete Genome

Life finds a way.

By Frank Landymore

Online course provider Study.com asked 1,000 students over the age of 18 about the use of ChatGPT, and found almost half already used it to cheat.
Artificial Intelligence

89 Percent of College Students Admit to Using ChatGPT for Homework, Study Claims

Wait, what!?

By Victor Tangermann

As if being verified couldn't be more worthless or AIs more dubious, beware verified Twitter accounts with AI-generated faces pretending to be real people.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter Is “Verifying” Accounts With AI-Generated Faces

It's only the tip of the iceberg.

By Frank Landymore

A Chinese influencer who thought it was a great idea to purchase, grill, and eat a whole great white shark has been fined by her country for doing so.
Science & Energy

Influencer Fined for Eating Endangered Great White Shark

"Don't be fooled by its scary appearance, its meat is very tender."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Strange things were certainly afoot this weekend, with zookeepers in Dallas and Louisiana announcing separate incidents of monkey theft.
Future Society

It Was a Very Bad Weekend for Monkeys Being Stolen From Zoos, Apparently

"The coincidence is a little difficult to ignore."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Could flirting with a VR bartender help you combat IRL temptations? These researchers betted it could — and their study seems to back them up.
Virtual Reality

Flirting With a VR Hottie Might Help People Avoid Cheating, Experiment Finds

A human walks into a VR bar — stop me if you've heard this one before.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Northwestern University astronomer Jason Wang has created a stunning timelapse of a number of planets orbiting a distant star.
Exoplanets

Scientist Releases Amazing Video of Exoplanets Orbiting Distant Star

Okay, that's just plain amazing.

By Victor Tangermann

A Motherboard deep dive into 4Chan found that a number of users have likely abused a new AI voice-generator beta to make phony "celebs" say horrible things.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Shocked When 4Chan Immediately Abuses Its Voice-Cloning AI

"The clips run the gamut from harmless, to violent, to transphobic, to homophobic, to racist."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An old Soviet-era rocket body almost collided with an errant military satellite, narrowly avoiding a huge disaster, according to tracking company LeoLabs.
Off-World

Two Large Chunks of Space Debris Just Almost Collided in an Epic Disaster

That was a seriously close call.

By Victor Tangermann

Brandon Ewing, a popular Twitch streamer who goes by "Atrioc," apologized for viewing NSFW deepfake porn that may have been of female streamers.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitch Streamer Tearfully Apologizes for Looking at Deepfaked Porn

"It's not as simple as 'just' being violated. It's so much more than that."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People have suspected for years that Facebook Messenger was draining their batteries — and a new lawsuit just might prove it.
Future Society

Whistleblower Claims Facebook Can Secretly Drain Your Phone’s Battery on Purpose

Facebook, it's worth noting, is completely denying the claims.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google researchers have shown off the latest tricks they've taught MusicLM, their AI model that can turn simple text prompts into music.
Google

Google’s Powerful New AI Can Turn Text Into Music

Have a listen for yourself.

By Victor Tangermann

After almost two years of roaming the surface, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially dropped off the tenth and final Martian soil sample.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Just Dropped Off Its Last Sample

"Someone understood the assignment."

By Victor Tangermann

Silicon Valley darling and ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly hired roughly 1,000 contractors with the goal of improving its text-to-code AI, Codex.
OpenAI

OpenAI Reportingly Hiring “Army” of Devs to Train AI to Replace Entry-Level Coders

"Learn to code," they said.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré