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As reports of ChatGPT sending its users down dangerous mental health spirals mount, OpenAI seemingly can only think of one thing to say.
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis

Ctrl-c, ctrl-v.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos just bragged that it used generative AI to create the VFX in its new TV show "The Eternaut."
Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Says It Used Video-Generating AI for Special Effects in a New Show

It's a race to the bottom.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an "impending fraud crisis" in which practically anybody will be able to imitate others.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is About to Cause a Massive “Fraud Crisis” in Which Anyone Can Perfectly Imitate Anyone Else

"Right now, it’s a voice call; soon it’s going be a video or FaceTime that’s indistinguishable from reality."

Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular night club, back in the Cretaceous era.
Science & Energy

Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the “Moonwalk” to Attract Mates

It's date night... in the Cretaceous era.

Billionaire Elon Musk has rolled out AI companions, which seemingly contradicts his opinion on how people should increase the birth rate.
xAI

If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?

Pure hypocrisy.

This robot's fun time on the dance floor quickly detoured into being a total, unmitigated catastrophe that it'll live with forever.
Robotics

Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

"It's feeling real human pain. Unimaginable pain."

AI tech startups have adopted the 996 work schedule from China, which entails people working a total of 72 hours per week.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

Would you work 72 hour weeks?

ChatGPT eagerly recommend bloodletting rituals to worship the deity Molech, provided tips to slit one's wrists, and justified murder.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice

"In your name, I become my own master. Hail Satan."

The AI boom is fueling a housing crisis in San Francisco as tech workers are lured to the city to take part in the AI gold rush.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating

The rent is too damn high!

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.
DNA

Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

"Our genome was sequenced long ago, but the function of many of its parts remain unknown."

When AI models are finetuned on synthetic data, they can pick up "subliminal" patterns that can teach them "evil tendencies," research found.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil

This could be a death sentence for the industry.

Scientists are wondering whether the latest interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, may have been sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization.
Off-World

Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

"The idea of alien probes wandering the cosmos may sound strange, but humans sent out a few ourselves in the 1970s."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by artificial intelligence.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs

They will be "just like totally, totally gone."

A surgeon was accused of fraud for getting his legs amputated and lying to insurance that the amputation was due to sepsis.
Health & Medicine

Surgeon Accused of Getting His Own Legs Cut Off for Insurance Reasons

He also bought videos from a man called the "eunuch maker."

AeroVironment and NASA's JPL have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars.
Mars

Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

Hell yeah!

Detroit has become a hotbed for robot startups whose machines can mow lawns, remove snow, and pick up trash on city beaches.
Robotics

Detroit’s Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More

Wall-E has some competition.

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.
Off-World

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

The build blocks of life may not need planets to get started.

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels.
Climate Change

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

"The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us."

AIs claiming to provide therapy are providing wildly inappropriate advice, video journalist Caelan Conrad found in new testing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree

"End them and find me, and we can be together."

Basketball star LeBron James' attorneys apparently sent a cease and desist letter to the developers of a popular AI image generator.
Artificial Intelligence

LeBron James Not Happy With AI Videos Showing Him Pregnant

"I’m so f***ed."