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Using AI visuals and IRL quotes, a parody PAC is taking on NC GOP candidate Mark Robinson and the tech itself.

This Fully AI-Generated Political Ad Is Both Hilarious and Terrifying

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video shows several people menacingly cornering a stopped Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco and tagging it with graffiti.

Artificial Intelligence

Waymo Passenger Clutches Small Dog as Vandals Surround Vehicle

By Sharon Adarlo

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

Artificial Intelligence

EA Shows Off AI System That Lets You Dream Up an Entire Videogame From Scratch

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Should you smear human feces on a balloon to potty train your kid? According to Google Search's AI Overview, the answer is yes.

Google’s Search AI Suggests Smearing Fecal Matter on Balloon to Potty Train Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops in New Mexico used an AI-generated image of fake teenage girl to attract pedophiles, a lawsuit filed by the state shows.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Use AI-Generated 14-Year-Old Girl to Lure Sex Criminals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The GOP's House Judiciary Committee posted used AI to further debunked and unconfirmed social media rumors about Haitian immigrants and pets.

Artificial Intelligence

Desperate Republicans Using AI to Generate Fake Photos of Donald Trump Saving Kittens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

Artificial Intelligence

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dondald Trump's campaign strongly appears to have quietly used an AI-generated image in a social media-shared political advertisement.

Artificial Intelligence

If You Zoom Into This “Photo” Trump Posted, You’ll Find Something Very Strange

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of Kamala Harris designed to invoke Joseph Stalin — but she actually looked much more like Mario.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Kamala Harris as Joseph Stalin, But Instead It Just Looks Like Mario

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A slew of major news publishers and top social media websites are blocking Apple from scraping their websites for AI training purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

No One Wants Apple To Scrape Their Websites for AI Training

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tom Hanks is warning his fans not to fall for fraudulent deepfakes that depict him hawking "miracle cures" and other products.

Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Warns That Deepfake Scams Are Stealing His Face

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is in trouble with Memphis locals because his AI datacenter has been accused of polluting the air with gas-burning turbines.

Elon Musk Accused of Choking Community With Smog From Gas-Powered AI Datacenter

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Project 2025's chaotic and contradictory AI policy is rooted in bizarre isolationism, slashing already-nonexistent regulations, and spying.

Artificial Intelligence

Project 2025’s AI Policies Are a Baffling Stew of Grievance and Contradictions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you think AI platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT seem dumber than before, you are not alone. Others have noticed AI models are not accurate.

Artificial Intelligence

Did AI Already Peak and Now It’s Getting Dumber?

By Sharon Adarlo

AI technology is becoming so advanced that researchers propose people start using personhood credentials to verify they are human.

Artificial Intelligence

CAPTCHAs Becoming Useless as AI Gets Smarter, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

New research shows that AI models need to be completely retrained to learn new concepts — which is an expensive problem for AI companies.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Humongous Problem With AI Models: They Need to Be Entirely Rebuilt Every Time They’re Updated

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla drivers are saying the latest version of the car company's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) software is making their cars run red lights.

Tesla Drivers Say New Self-Driving Update Is Repeatedly Running Red Lights

By Sharon Adarlo

A Florida man is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI

By Sharon Adarlo

Conspiracy theorist and brain worm haver Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that he gets fooled by fake AI content "all the time." We believe him!

Artificial Intelligence

RFK Jr. Says He Constantly Gets Fooled by Fake AI Content

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

Donald Trump posted fake images of Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing him for president. A lot of Swifties — a feared group! — are mad.

Artificial Intelligence

Swifties Erupt in Fury After Donald Trump Uses AI to Fake Taylor Swift Endorsement

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump is using AI imagery to double down on his attack line that Kamala Harris is a "communist" a week after accusing her of using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

After Falsely Accusing Kamala Harris of Using AI, Donald Trump Posts AI Slop About Her on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.

Artificial Intelligence

This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Companies and recruiters are getting flooded with AI-generated job applications and they are badly written.

Artificial Intelligence

Recruiters Are Getting Bombarded With Crappy, AI-Generated CVs

By Sharon Adarlo

Cisco posted $10.3 billion in profits last year but is still laying off 5,500 workers as part of an effort to invest more into AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Company Lays Off 5,500 Workers to Invest More in AI, Despite Making $10.3 Billion in Profit

By Sharon Adarlo

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AI companies should "steal" content first, and lawyer up to deal with the "mess" later.

Ex-Google CEO Says It’s Fine If AI Companies “Stole All the Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google got egg on its face Tuesday when the live demo of an AI mobile app would not work in front a large audience.

Google’s Demo of Its Latest AI Tech Was an Absolute Train Wreck

By Sharon Adarlo

Former President Donald Trump wrongly accused the Harris campaign of using AI to generate fake images of large crowds of supporters.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Is So Mad About Harris’ Huge Crowds That He’s Lying That They’re AI-Generated

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is allowing paid-for promoted links to AI apps that expressly help users make nonconsensual deepfake nudes, 404 Media reports.

Google Caught Taking Money to Promote AI Apps That Create Nonconsensual Nudes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Michal Kosinski, Stanford psychologist, claims that AI programs can detect people's IQ, sexual orientation, and politics by scanning faces.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face

By Sharon Adarlo

If the trillion-dollar AI industry in the throes of a gold rush crashes in the face of slight unpredictability, how much is it really worth?

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Bubble Is Bursting, Experts Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chip giant Nvidia has been quietly scraping astronomical amounts of YouTube video data to train its AI models, leaked docs reveal.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Caught Stealing Mind-Boggling Quantity of YouTube Videos to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI industry may be headed for trouble after tepid earnings reports from tech companies dismayed Wall Street.

Artificial Intelligence

With the Market Tanking, the AI Industry May Be in Huge Trouble

By Sharon Adarlo

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a major — though unsurprising — U-turn, Meta-formerly-Facebook has done away with its confusing celebrity AI clones.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Is Euthanizing All Its Celebrity AI Clones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's new pitch for generative AI, as seen in its new Olympic ad: don't teach your kids how to build something from a blank page.

Google’s Latest Pitch for AI Is So Sad It Sounds Like a Spoof

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A scammer attempting to trick Ferrari executives using deepfake tech was thwarted by a stalwart safety measure: the security question.

Artificial Intelligence

Ferrari Exec Suspects Call From CEO Is Deepfaked, Asks Question Only He Would Know the Answer To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI entered the AI search market this week with a prototype of a search tool called SearchGPT. There's an error in its demo.

OpenAI Reveals AI-Powered Search Engine, Which Instantly Makes Factual Mistake in Demo

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

A video is going viral of President Joe Biden cussing out his enemies in colorful, expletive-laden language, but the video is an AI deepfake.

Artificial Intelligence

PBS Responds to Deepfake of Biden Flinging Slurs at His Enemies

By Sharon Adarlo

Many content makers have put up restrictions on their content in the past year, which prevents AI companies from scraping them for data.

Artificial Intelligence

Crisis Looms as AI Companies Rapidly Losing Access to Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle.

Artificial Intelligence

New Camera Inside Cars Detects If You’ve Been Drinking

By Sharon Adarlo

A Spanish court has sentenced 15 teenagers to one year of probation for using AI to create fake nude images of female classmates.

Artificial Intelligence

Schoolchildren Sentenced for AI-Generating Nudes of Their Classmates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Intuit, which makes tax prep software TurboTax, is laying off 1,800 workers or about 10 percent of its global staff due to AI restructuring.

Artificial Intelligence

Maker of TurboTax Fires 1,800 Workers, Says It’s Pivoting to AI

By Sharon Adarlo

The venerable has a new AI chatbot, designed to answer climate questions. Why won't it answer prompts about AI's growing climate footprint?

Artificial Intelligence

Washington Post Launches AI to Answer Climate Questions, But It Won’t Say Whether AI Is Bad for the Climate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNN is firing 100 employees, or three percent of its overall work force. It says it's pivoting harder to video — and pushing "into AI."

Artificial Intelligence

CNN Firing 100 Employees Amid “Strategic Push Into AI”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines

Artificial Intelligence

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets by way of AI-powered, facial recognition-embedded vending machines.

Facial recognition

In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content.

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet

By Sharon Adarlo

AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It’s Making Absolutely No Money

By Sharon Adarlo

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

In its latest environmental impact report, Google admitted that its 2023 emissions saw a 13 percent year-over-year increase. The culprit? AI.

Google Is Failing to Meet Important Climate Targets so Its AI Can Tell You to Put Glue on Pizza

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has some thoughts about fair use — and according to him, just about anything online is fair for him to use!

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO of AI Says It’s Fine to Steal Anything on the Open Web

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We asked OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, which is designed to browse the web, about a current event — and it sent us directly to spam-ridden AI sludge.

ChatGPT-4o Is Sending Users to a Scammy Website That Floods Your Screen With Fake Virus Warnings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers submitted AI-generated answers to tests at a university, fooling professors and earning better grades versus actual students.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Answers Fool Professors, Get Better Grades Than Human-Written Ones

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted unnamed AI rivals for "creating God" while also saying open source AI is a positive.

Zuckerberg Accuses Rivals of Trying to Create AI-Powered God

By Sharon Adarlo

The Perplexity AI search tool is citing low-quality and sometimes incorrect AI-generated spam from sketchy blogs and LinkedIn posts.

Artificial Intelligence

Perplexity Is Already “Citing” Error-Filled AI-Generated Spam

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After an influencer released an AI clone of herself, The Conversation reports, the situation quickly turned dark and scary.

Artificial Intelligence

Influencer Disturbed When Her “AI Clone” Starts Engaging in Dark Fantasies

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's ChatGPT was caught giving spitting out false voting information for battleground states and even omitted crucial voting data.

ChatGPT Is Giving Bad Info About Where to Vote in Battleground States

By Sharon Adarlo