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In fresh ChatGPT hell, it turns out that it's wildly easy to use the viral OpenAI chatbot to write convincing defamation. Just don't ask for it in English.

ChatGPT Will Gladly Spit Out Defamation, as Long as You Ask for It in a Foreign Language

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Verge is reporting that the "Hustle Bros" — you know, the grown men with the very loud YouTube thumbnails — have discovered OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Scammers Are Already Convincing Idiots They Can Get Rich Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's ChatGPT integrated Bing search engine reportedly went live only for a short period, but screenshots document the highly-anticipated upgrade.

Microsoft Appears to Have Accidentally Launched New Bing With ChatGPT Functionality

By Frank Landymore

A brilliant ChatGPT jailbreak lets you bypass many of its guardrails against unethical outputs -- and it has some interesting implications.

Amazing “Jailbreak” Bypasses ChatGPT’s Ethics Safeguards

By Jon Christian

Metaverse CEO Says ChatGPT Is Speeding Up Timeline for Emulating Dead People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After many months pissing off stakeholders, Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally made them happy — by saying that he's leaning into AI.

Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Lean Hard Into AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The global warming threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius may be a foregone conclusion, according to a new study that trained an AI on climate models.

Global Warming Is Worse Than We Thought, AI Tells Scientists

By Frank Landymore

According to one Harvard researcher, if we don't put a lid on the US-China AI arms race soon, civilization as we know it could end up paying a hefty price.

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Researcher Warns AI Arms Race Could Destroy Civilization

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET leadership was reportedly aware that its deeply flawed AI had a habit of fabricating facts and plagiarizing others' work — and deployed it anyway.

Artificial Intelligence

Red Ventures Knew Its AI Lied and Plagiarized, Deployed It at CNET Anyway

By Jon Christian

"Robot lawyer" startup DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder is being accused of some pretty shady things, including using unpaid charity donations for cloud.

Artificial Intelligence

Extremely Embarrassing Evidence Emerges Against CEO of “Robot Lawyer” Startup

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

By Frank Landymore

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

By Jon Christian

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

I work for Red Ventures, which owns the tech news site CNET and many others — which the company is now pumping full of articles churned out by a shadowy AI.

Artificial Intelligence

I Work for CNET’s Parent Company. Its AI-Generated Articles Disgust Me.

By Anonymous Red Ventures Employee

DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder has announced that his robot lawyer's first live case has been postponed, alleging that prosecutors have threatened to jail him.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup’s Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To cope with the challenges that modern human memory faces, tech journalist Shubham Agarwal decided to "outsource" his memory to assistive AI called Heyday.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy “Outsources” His Own Memory to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the fallout from CNET's scandalous experiment with AI generated articles continues, a big Red Ventures rival has made its stance known.

Artificial Intelligence

Rival Slams CNET: “We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian AI scientists have come up with a unique means of measuring how far away we are from technological singularity. By their data, we're not far off.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence stands to be the first major, technology-driven shakeup to the white collar marketplace, experts say.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Steal Your High Paying Job, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI chatbot, Historical Figures, simulates conversations with famous leaders. Just one thing: every famous person in history is perfect. Noted.

Artificial Intelligence

AI of Andrew Jackson, Who Literally Owned Slaves, Insists That He Wasn’t Racist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Content moderation is horrifying work, but Silicon Valley — this time, OpenAI — keeps taking advantage of cheap labor in the Global South to do it.

OpenAI Apparently Paid People in the Developing World $2/Hour to Look at the Most Disturbing Content Imaginable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Any and all CNET stories about AI are marked with a very odd editor's note that lets readers know that elsewhere on the site, AI is writing articles.

Artificial Intelligence

After Scandal, CNET Adds Strange Disclaimer to Human-Written Articles About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft has a new text-to-speech AI that can clone your voice, tone and all, from just a quick three-second snippet of audio. It's called VALL-E.

Artificial Intelligence

New Microsoft AI Can Clone Your Voice From Three Seconds of Audio

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Writers and journalists across the industry weigh in on the upsetting news that CNET has been using an AI to write its financial explainers.

Artificial Intelligence

Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI

By Frank Landymore

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

The New York City Department of Education doesn't want its kids using the AI chatbot that's capable of writing essays on its own.

ChatGPT Officially Banned from NYC Schools. Related: Good Luck With That

By Frank Landymore

Digital artist Ben Moran only wanted to share their latest art work on r/Art, Reddit's largest subreddit, but moderators quickly shut them down.

Artificial Intelligence

Artist Says They Were Banned Because Their Art Looked Like AI, Even Though They’re Human

By Frank Landymore

Business Insider had real hiring managers take a look at two cover letters that OpenAI's ChatGPT bot wrote, and their responses were mixed.

In a Fresh Horror, ChatGPT Can Apply to Jobs Now

By Frank Landymore

In a short amount of time, a number of AI algorithms have been bottled into consumable products. One problem: these products, and the public, aren't ready.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Problem With That AI Portrait App: It Can Undress People Without Their Consent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MSN has deleted some of their garbage fake news, but continues to publish fake stories about the Loch Ness Monster, haunted toys, and killer asteorids.

Artificial Intelligence

MSN Deletes Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot, Runs New Story About Haunted Ventriloquist Dummy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

Disney Creates AI System to Automatically Change Age of Actors

By Frank Landymore

Turns out there's a hack for getting OpenAI's new AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to tell you how to do illegal things: just tell it to be unethical.

OpenAI’s New AI Offers Detailed Instructions on How to Shoplift

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Employers are starting to invest in mind-reading tech, which promise to do things like maximize worker productivity and ensure employee wellness.

Companies Already Investing in Tech to Scan Employees’ Brains

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anime Fans In Japan Are Not Happy With AI-Generated Manga

Anime Fans In Japan Are Not Happy With AI-Generated Manga

By Frank Landymore

This CEO says generative AI is all flash, no substance — and ultimately, will fail to generate major new revenue streams for VCs' billions.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO of AI Startup Says Many AI Startups Will Fail Because They’re Making a Serious Mistake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The likes of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, and Leonardo DiCaprio are among some of the biggest names on the planet who are getting deepfaked into ads.

Companies Are Deepfaking Celebs Into Ads Without Their Permission

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University have constructed an AI-powered robot trained to kill cockroaches and other insects with a deadly laser.

Brutal Robot Kills Cockroaches Using a Powerful Laser

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered music generators are here — and it looks like they're gunning for a strong position in the content-creation economy.

Artificial Intelligence

AI That Generates Music from Prompts Should Probably Scare Musicians

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI powered "grief tech," which captures lost loved ones and makes interactive versions of them, is here. And unlike feeble humans, it might be here to stay.

Artificial Intelligence

Ghoulish AI Simulates Your Dead Parents

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Introducing: The Synthetic Party, a new political party in Denmark. Their head honcho, Leader Lars, is an AI chatbot, and all policies are AI-derived.

Artificial Intelligence

New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech-savvy students are reportedly getting straight A's by using advanced AI language generators — mainly OpenAI's GPT-3 — to write papers for them.

Artificial Intelligence

Sneaky Students Using AI to Write Their Papers For Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An entirely AI-generated conversation between (living) podcast menace "Joe Rogan" and the deceased Apple founder "Steve Jobs" now exists. Great.

Artificial Intelligence

Deepfaked Podcast Has Joe Rogan Interview Undead Steve Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The top machine learning researcher at Facebook is quietly building a roadmap towards an "autonomous" AI that has common sense.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Top Facebook Scientist Quietly Plotting “Autonomous” AIs

By Noor Al-Sibai

DreamFusion, Google's new text-to-3D-image generator, is here — and we have to admit, it's impressive. Big fans of the ghost eating the hamburger prompt.

Google Creates AI That Turns Text Into 3D Objects

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Although James Earl Jones has stepped away from his most iconic role, the legendary "Star Wars" actor's incredible baritone lives on thank to AI.

Artificial Intelligence

James Earl Jones Now Letting Darth Vader Be Voiced by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI artist unexpectedly discovered that private medical photos from over ten years ago were included in the AI training image database LAION.

Woman Horrified To Discover Her Private Medical Photos Were Being Used To Train AI

By Frank Landymore

According to a new report from Europol, we have all the reason in the world to be extra vigilant about what we consume online.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bad news (maybe) for nail salons everywhere: a new robot called Clockwork is in town, and claims to "liberate" people from apparent manicure hell.

Artificial Intelligence

New Manicure Robot Spells Potential Doom for Nail Salons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Panera Bread fast casual chain has announced that it plans to test out AI at its drive-thru's, bringing us that much closer to the uncanny valley.

Artificial Intelligence

Panera Bread Is Replacing Humans With AI At Drive-Thru Windows

By Noor Al-Sibai

Watch AI Generate Dozens of Fashion Designs in a Mesmerizing Video

Artificial Intelligence

Watch AI Generate Dozens of Fashion Designs in a Mesmerizing Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than two weeks after its signing by Capitol Records and a recent wave of social media backlash, the major label says its "severing ties" with FN Meka.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Rapper Dropped By Label After Being Slammed As Racist Caricature

By Frank Landymore

Binance CCO Patrick Hillman claims cybercriminals have been using a deepfake to take meetings with — and money from — a number of eager crypto projects.

Scammers Deepfake Crypto Exec to Steal Money From People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Marina Smith, a 87-year-old woman who passed away in June, was able to talk to the people at her own wedding in the UK — all thanks to the power of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Allows Dead Woman to Talk to People Who Showed Up at Her Funeral

By Victor Tangermann

Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine is saying that he never set out to convince anyone else that LaMDA, the language modeling system, is sentient.

Fired Engineer Says He Begged Google to Test Whether Experimental AI Was Sentient

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Machine learning is an increasingly popular tool of scientific research, but a lot of the scientists using it might not really know what they're doing.

Machine Learning

Lazy Scientists Botching Research With Machine Learning They Don’t Understand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence isn't yet, and likely won't ever be, conscious. We just want it to be. And such a phenomenon can be explained by the Eliza effect.

Artificial Intelligence

Analysis: No, AI Isn’t Sentient, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mixed feelings about Mark Zuckerburg? Meta's advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, doesn't seem to know how it feels about Meta's founder and CEO, either.

Meta’s AI Chatbot Calls Mark Zuckerberg “Creepy and Manipulative”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of animal lovers is looking to use machine learning to translate animal "language" into something humans can understand.

Artificial Intelligence

Ambitious Researchers Want to Use AI to Talk to All Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

Think and you’ll miss it: researchers at MIT claim to have successfully created analog synapses a million times faster than those in our human brains.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Claims New Artificial Neuron 1 Million Times Faster Than the Real Thing

By Frank Landymore

An AI image generator called Stability.ai created an incredible series of Renaissance-style paintings of famous rappers — and they go hard.

Artificial Intelligence

These AI-Generated, Renaissance-Style Portraits of Rappers Are Incredible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Asked an AI to Show the “Last Selfie Ever Taken” and Um

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has finally fired the engineer, Blake Lemoine, who insists the company's chatbot AI known as LaMBDA is sentient after a previous suspension.

Google Fires Engineer Who Said Its Experimental AI Gained Sentience

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More writers are using AI programs like Sudowrite to create fiction novels faster than ever before. Some support AI writing, some don't.

Artificial Intelligence

Authors Are Starting to Use AI to Quickly Churn Out Novels

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Upon announcing the public rollout of the DALL-E 2 beta, OpenAI declared that all DALL-E imagery can be commercialized and sold.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine to Sell Images Made With DALL-E 2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré