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AI slop posters are already using fake images of alleged Hurricane Helene devastation to capitalize on the still-unfolding natural disaster.
Meta

Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A local newspaper in Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake news anchors. Unsurprisingly, they're freaky.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Alarmed When Newspaper Replaces Humans With Glitchy AI Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated content flooding the web. That could be a problem for AI models, which are widely trained via web-scraped data.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This AI company says its helping lower advertising costs for underfunded progressive campaigns. Its product feels anything but progressive.
Artificial Intelligence

Democratic Startup Proposes Flooding the Web With AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The iPad-focused design app Procreate is declining to incorporate generative AI into its platform — and its CEO isn't mincing words.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech CEO Admits That He “Really F*cking Hates” Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Federal Trade Commission just moved to ban fake, AI-generated reviews and testimonials, including ones attributed to fake authors.
Artificial Intelligence

The US Government Just Banned Fake AI-Generated Reviews

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly developed effective tools for marking and tracking AI-generated content. Why isn't it releasing them?
OpenAI

OpenAI Has Software That Detects AI Writing With 99.9 Percent Accuracy, Refuses to Release It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What happens when you train an AI model with AI-generated content? Absolute chaos, according to a new study.
Artificial Intelligence

When AI Is Trained With AI-Generated Data, It Starts Spouting Gibberish

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We found the one piece of AI-generated Facebook sludge to rule them all — and it has one giant boot and a birthday wish.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Unlocked a Level of Facebook Pandering Previously Unknown to Science

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's erosion continues with AI-generated images of cops lugging huge Bibles through floodwaters, because why not.
Meta

Facebook Lunatics Are Making AI-Generated Pictures of Cops Carrying Huge Bibles Through Floods Go Viral

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The internet has been using AI to turn famous memes into videos — and a fair share of the results are nothing short of nightmare fuel.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Using AI to Turn Memes Into Videos and It’s Low Key Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google Images is returning disturbing AI-generated images of celebrity women as children in suggestive or even explicit depictions.
Google

Google Images Showing AI-Generated Images of Children in Bikinis, Referencing Epstein’s Island

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Reuters report says that an AI tool used by the app NewsBreak has been publishing entirely made-up news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Popular News App Caught Publishing Completely Untrue AI Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-generated image of a young disabled veteran went viral on Facebook. A lot of folks — particularly older men — think she's the real deal.
Meta

Facebook Page Uses AI-Generated Image of Disabled Veteran to Farm Engagement

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A news network is attributing AI-spun articles to fake authors with racially diverse names. Its publisher claims the names were unintentional.
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated media is leading the way in visual disinformation on the web, a recent study led by Google researchers found.
Google

Even Google’s Own Researchers Admit AI Is Top Source of Misinformation Online

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta, hoping to cash in on AI for itself, is failing to prevent abusive AI-generated images from spreading across its social media platforms.
Meta

While Meta Stuffs AI Into All Its Products, It’s Apparently Helpless to Stop Perverts on Instagram From Publicly Lusting Over Sexualized AI-Generated Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The American newspaper giant and USA Today owner Gannett is using AI to generate a bulleted list of "Key Points" for news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Using AI to Generate Parts of Articles, Leaked Memo Shows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Writers at the newspaper giant Gannett quietly updated employment contracts to provide much more leeway for generating "news content."
Future Society

Gannett Staff Furious Over Contract Allowing AI “to Generate News Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook is quickly being overrun by dubious, AI-generated junk — which is attracting huge amounts of attention from its aging user base.
Meta

Facebook Is Making Insane AI-Generated Fever Dreams Go Viral for Gullible Boomers

By Victor Tangermann

A case study in SEO bros, the new Google spam update, and the AI-generated content continuing to fill the web.
Google

SEO Guy Mocks Google for Deindexing His “Gibberish” AI Sites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.
Brain

Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A digital paper was revived from the media graveyard — only to have its archived news articles re-attributed to fake writers.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Startled to Discover His Byline Has Been Replaced by Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google announced a substantial overhaul to its spam policies for search yesterday, introducing a crackdown on AI content.
Google

Google Search Cracking Down on Mass-Produced AI-Generated Slime

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is paying publishers to test an AI tool that generates news — by reportedly gobbling up and regurgitating already-published news.
Google

Google Quietly Paying Journalists to Generate Articles Using Unreleased AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Today in AI ouroboros vertigo: an AI content farm swindled our reporting about misleading AI-generated fakes at Sports Illustrated.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Site Ripped Off Our Reporting About AI Ripoffs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to OpenAI, its new video AI called Sora is a "world simulator," that taught itself how to understand 3D spaces.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says Its New AI Can Simulate Worlds

By Victor Tangermann

Ex-Googler Jim Albrecht argues that generative AI is the "wolf" coming for the media industry. Unfortunately, he's probably right.
Google

Former Google News Director Admits Big Tech Is Killing Journalism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent study by Amazon AI researchers found that a "shocking amount of the web" comprises poor-quality AI-generated and translated content.
Artificial Intelligence

Huge Proportion of Internet Is AI-Generated Slime, Researchers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

The ongoing presidential campaign in Argentina is packed with enough chaos as it is — and now, AI has found its way into the mix.
Artificial Intelligence

Argentinian Presidential Candidate Uses AI-Generated Campaign Poster That Gives Him Gruesome Thumb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is worried that the AI industry will have to pay billions of dollars in royalties for copyrighted material.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work

By Frank Landymore

"Unsafe image content detected": Microsoft's Bing Image Creator often refuses to generate images of women.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing’s AI Refuses to Generate Photorealistic Images of Women, Saying They’re “Unsafe”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anaconda co-founder and CEO Peter Wang predicts that books will soon be replaced by AI-generated, interactive content trips dubbed "thunks."
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Guy Says Books Will Be Replaced by AI-Powered “Thunks”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After replacing its human writers with a translation AI, G/O stripped Gizmodo Español of all bylines — including those of its laid-off staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gannett promised that no AI content would be published to its vast network without direct human oversight. This isn't how things played out.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Promised to Be Super Responsible With AI Before Completely Bungling It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's owner fired the site's Spanish translators to replace them with automated software. Surprise: the AI is already doing a bad job.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rather than simply scrub its many pages of Lede AI-generated content clean, Gannett is updating the articles to correct their many "errors."
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Updates Every AI-Generated Sports Article to Correct “Errors”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you're considering a foray into amateur mushroom foraging, you might want to reconsider shopping for your beginner's guide on Amazon.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Worry That AI-Generated Books About Mushroom Foraging Will Get Someone Killed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

via Amazon/Futurism
Artificial Intelligence

The New Scam Flooding Amazon: AI-Generated Travel Guides

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Netflix wants to pay someone anywhere between $300,000 and $900,000 to tell them exactly how it can cash in on AI tech.
Artificial Intelligence

Netflix, Intent on Using AI to Own BackGround Actors’ Faces in Perpetuity Without Pay, Will Pay You $900k If You Tell Them How to Cash in on AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an all-hands meeting, Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias laid out an expansive plan for the publisher's AI-driven future.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Parent Company Preparing to Kickstart the AI Content Engine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated joke images of toddlers wearing what looked like Target-peddled Satanic merchandise went viral in far-right social media circles.
Artificial Intelligence

Idiots Fooled by AI-Generated Pics of Satanic Merchandise at Target

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An LA-based artist and producer created the first official and credited song that features Grimes' AI-cloned vocals called "GrimesAI."
Future Society

Grimes Calls First Official Song Made by AI-Cloning Her Voice a “Masterpiece”

By Victor Tangermann

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

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

NewsGuard was able to identify 49 content farms producing material appearing to be either mostly or entirely AI-generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of News Sites are Using AI Chatbots to Churn Out Questionable Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The popular tech site has employed the use of AI for its financial explainer articles under the byline of "CNET Money Staff."
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI

By Frank Landymore