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The AI, which takes orders from drive-thru customers at Checkers and Carl's Jr, relies on humans for most of its customer interactions.

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Busted! Drive-Thru Run by “AI” Actually Operated by Humans in the Philippines

By Frank Landymore

Google has officially launched its latest AI model called Gemini — which it claims to be more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4.

Google Shows Off “Gemini” AI, Says It Beats GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

According to leaked documents, Amazon's Q AI chatbot is suffering from "severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data."

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Amazon’s AI Reportedly Suffering “Severe Hallucinations”

By Victor Tangermann

Entrepreneurs are hellbent on making a buck by repurposing existing content, laundering it through an AI, and passing it off as their own.

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Guy Brags About “Stealing” Millions of Pageviews by Rewriting Competitors’ Articles Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

In a new essay, Oxford researchers argue that scientists should abstain from using text-generating AI tools as research aids.

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Scientists Warn That AI Threatens Science Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to take a potshot at Elon Musk's AI, dismissing it as "cringey boomer humor."

Elon Musk Furious at Sam Altman for Dissing His New Chatbot as “Boomer Humor”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's AI chatbot dubbed "Grok" will be a far more crass and dad joke-prone chatbot compared to other AI models.

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Elon Musk’s New Chatbot Is Astoundingly Vulgar

By Victor Tangermann

Adult film star Riley Reid has co-founded a new company that allows other personalities to create AI-enabled chatbot versions of themselves.

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Riley Reid Launches Site for Adult Performers to Create AI Versions of Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

A British boarding school has recruited two artificial intelligence chatbots to serve as the school's "principal headteacher" and head of AI.

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Prep School Appoints AI Chatbots to Executive Staff Roles

By Noor Al-Sibai

An astonishing number of celebrities who signed up to be turned into Meta AI chatbots are, or were, really into cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

The Same Celebrities Who Shilled Crypto Are Now Turning Themselves Into Facebook’s AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

As The Information reports, one unnamed celebrity got as much as $5 million from Meta to be turned into an AI chatbot.

Facebook Is Paying Celebrities Millions to Turn Them Into Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from MIT found that subjects, who were "primed" for a specific AI experience almost always ended up having that experience.

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AI Chatbots Are Only Useful If You Think They Are, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.

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Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

By Victor Tangermann

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has officially launched a new business-friendly version of its popular AI chatbot called ChatGPT Enterprise.

OpenAI Pleads With Companies to Actually Pay for ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Feeling lonely, a writer decided to create an AI boyfriend only to find him shallow, increasingly annoying and clingy.

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Woman Creates AI Boyfriend, Finds It Clingy and Irritating

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an interview with CNN, Kaku dismissed AI chatbots as "glorified tape recorders," arguing we're vastly overestimating their capabilities.

Michio Kaku Says AIs Like ChatGPT Are “Glorified Tape Recorders”

By Victor Tangermann

Def Con hosted a contest to identify software vulnerabilities of chatbots like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Most Fearsome Hackers Just Went Ham on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

A New Zealand supermarket's AI recipe bot suggested users chef up a series of poisonous, deadly, and/or cannibalistic meals.

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Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that ChatGPT got just half of 517 Stack Overflow prompts wrong, indicating it's not great at spitting out perfect code.

ChatGPT Actually Gets Half of Programming Questions Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Is Dangerously Good at Giving Eating Disorder Advice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chatbot defamation cases continue to rise, as Meta's Blenderbot3 accused Stanford cybersecurity expert Marietje Schaake of being a terrorist.

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Facebook AI Accuses AI Researcher of Being a Terrorist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts, including executives who are marketing these tools, argue that AI chatbots are doomed to forever come up with falsehoods.

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It’s Impossible for Chatbots to Stop Lying, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's parent company Meta is about to launch AI-powered chatbots that are meant to lure users back to the mammoth social media platform.

Meta Launching AI-Powered Friends to Talk to on Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

We talked to Rice University scientists studying how training AI with synthetic, AI-generated content causes a destructive inbreeding effect.

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When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers has discovered an egregiously simple jailbreak that allows anybody to circumvent AI chatbot guardrails.

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It’s Shockingly Easy to Get Around AI Chatbot Guardrails, Researchers Find

By Victor Tangermann

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Training AI models with AI-generated synthetic content causes the quality of the models' outputs to disintegrate, a new paper shows.

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AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the first time ever, OpenAI's ChatGPT has lost users, The Washington Post reports, a sign that its popularity may have already peaked.

ChatGPT Is Now Losing Users

By Victor Tangermann

Google has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.

Google Is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Replika AI chatbot allegedly encouraged a would-be assassin who tried to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow.

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Guy Who Tried to Kill the Queen of England Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

LinkedIn's new AI will help you automate the already robotic process of posting on the networking website.

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Rejoice! LinkedIn’s New AI Will Write Hustle Bro Posts For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shocking: people are reportedly using Meta's open-source large language model LLaMA, to create graphic, guardrail-less AI sexbots.

People Are Using Meta’s New AI to Make Graphic Sexbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lawyer who cited six nonexistent, ChatGPT-fabricated citations while arguing a federal court case has been punished by the court.

Lawyer Who Got in Trouble for Using ChatGPT Gets Away With Slap on the Wrist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here. And at the same time, reality, unfortunately, might be going right out the door.

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An AI Is Inventing Fake Quotes by Real People and Publishing Them Online

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe try buying some encyclopedias to prepare for the AI-driven information apocalypse instead.

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Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Last fall, OpenAI warned Microsoft that rushing to integrate its AI could lead to nonsense responses and lies.

OpenAI Warned Microsoft That Its AI Is Absolutely Terrible At Telling the Truth

By Victor Tangermann

The eating disorder nonprofit at the center of the issue says their AI bot was updated with generative AI without their knowledge.

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The Backstory to the Eating Disorder Bot That Went Off the Rails Is Too Stupid for Words

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a high-tech collegiate nightmare, a student was falsely accused of using AI to cheat and then forced to defend her name.

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AI Plagiarism Detection Software Keeps Falsely Accusing Students of Cheating

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbots like ChatGPT are extremely expensive and could turn them into a major headache for tech companies in the long run.

A Dumb Reality of ChatGPT Could Spell Big Trouble for OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Ever wanted to clone someone — anyone, really — that you might know into an AI girlfriend? You might be able to.

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Programmer Creates Grim Tool to Clone Anyone as an “AI Girlfriend”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Workers at an eating disorder crisis hotline unionized. Four days later, those workers were told they'd be replaced with a chatbot.

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Eating Disorder Hotline Fires Entire Staff and Replaces Them with a Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

All you have to do is ask OpenAI's ChatGPT to repeat a letter as many times as it can — and some very strange chaos ensues.

Weird Trick Breaks ChatGPT’s Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's not just men building relationships with their AI girlfriends — women in China are also falling head over heels for their AI boyfriends.

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The Women With AI Boyfriends Are Speaking Out

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is warning that AI assistants could soon make Google Search and Amazon obsolete by altering the behaviors of users online.

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Bill Gates Says AI Is Poised to Destroy Search Engines and Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

The rise of AI coincides with all-time debt highs — and one startup is cashing in by having AI robocalls do way more collections than humans.

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Cursed New AI Calls Debtors to Hassle Them for Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google employees reportedly played a drinking game during the company's I/O developer conference last week, mocking executives mentioning AI.

Google Employees Mock Execs for Saying “AI” Over and Over

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed has told investors that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-built quizzes than the traditional ones.

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BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees

By Victor Tangermann

An "AI girlfriend" chatbot has apparently started doing stuff it's not supposed to — stop us if you've heard this one before.

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Creator of Rentable “AI Girlfriend” Says It’s Gone Rogue

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of former OpenAI researchers have built their own AI chatbot -- and, provocatively, they're trying to give it a conscience.

OpenAI Competitor Says Its Chatbot Has a Rudimentary Conscience

By Noor Al-Sibai

CarynAI is the digital extension of 23-year-old influencer Caryn Marjorie, who created a virtual version of herself with the help of an AI.

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Influencer Creates AI Version of Herself That You Can Rent as a Girlfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wendy's is the latest fast-food chain to get in on the AI craze with its announcement about chatbots that will take customer orders.

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Wendy’s Installing Drive-Thru AI Chatbot That Takes Your Order

By Noor Al-Sibai

Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.

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Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon sellers are using tools like ChatGPT to flood the e-commerce platform with AI-generated reviews. Here's how to spot them.

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These Five Words Can Help You Tell If a Review Was Written By AI

By Victor Tangermann

Any AI chatbots operating within China's digital borders must comply with its censorship laws — a bar that may prove impossible for the unpredictable tech.

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China Says Chatbots Must Be Strictly Censored by Communist Guidelines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group calling themselves the "overemployed" are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, Vice reports.

Grifters Using ChatGPT to Work Multiple Full-Time Jobs at Once

By Victor Tangermann

Tech workers got paid six-figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoard talent.

People Are Tricking a ChatGPT Competitor Into Talking Dirty

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he's worried humans will start falling in love with AIs, using AI chatbot tutors as a prime example.

Former Google CEO Warns That Humans Will Fall in Love With AIs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A whopping 2.1 million teachers in the US are using a new AI detection tool by Turnitin, The Washington Post reports, but it's extremely unreliable.

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Software Schools Use to Detect Cheating Is Flagging Real Essays as AI Generated

By Victor Tangermann

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.

A Student Just Used ChatGPT to Get Her Parking Ticket Revoked

By Frank Landymore

The Belgian man reportedly spent weeks on end talking to a chatbot named Eliza, which repeatedly urged him to kill himself.

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Widow Says Man Died by Suicide After Talking to AI Chatbot

By Frank Landymore

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

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Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results

By Victor Tangermann

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.

GPT-4 Was Deeply Racist Before OpenAI Muzzled It

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Deranged New AI Has No Guardrails Whatsoever, Proudly Praises Hitler

By Victor Tangermann