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Fast food chains like Wendy's are deploying AI in their drive-through ordering systems, but these technologies are error prone.

Artificial Intelligence

Wendy’s Says Its AI Only Screws Up 14 Percent of Drive-Through Orders

By Sharon Adarlo

The premier of a movie featuring an entirely AI-generated script was canceled last week due to public backlash, reports say.

Artificial Intelligence

Premiere of Movie With AI-Generated Script Canceled Amid Outrage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI confirmed that it has removed VIC, the AI chatbot running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, from public view.

OpenAI Imprisons AI That Was Running for Mayor in Wyoming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Been reading any good Russian propaganda lately? According to the misinformation watchdog NewsGuard, top AI chatbots certainly have.

Artificial Intelligence

Top Chatbots are Parroting Russian Propaganda, Report Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many people are passing up new cars and are instead buying used vehicles because new tech like touchscreens are distracting.

Advanced Transport

People Buying Cars Hate Touch Screens, Instead Getting Used Cars With Knobs and Buttons

By Sharon Adarlo

A cutesy Pixar-style animation clip featuring an Ancient Egyptian girl is going viral this week because it's entirely AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Generated Pixar Style Animation Just Might Blow Your Mind

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT is either ignoring or generating fake links to articles from Business Insider even though the two organizations have a deal.

ChatGPT Is Hallucinating Fake Article Links by One of Its Publishing Partners

By Sharon Adarlo

A new report on generative AI reveals that many companies in much of the world are not making a profit on their AI products.

Artificial Intelligence

Companies Find That AI Projects Have Had “Dismal” Financial Results

By Sharon Adarlo

As of this week, Google's AI was still telling people to put glue on pizza — and in the process, it misrepresented a journalist's work.

Google Helpless to Stop Its AI From Recommending Glue on Pizza

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Wyoming man wants an AI named VIC to be on Cheyenne's mayoral ballot. Authorities in the state are questioning the AI's legality.

Artificial Intelligence

Authorities Investigating AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stable Diffusion 3 is here — and if you want to generate an image of a person, maybe expect an output resembling human appendage soup.

Artificial Intelligence

The New Stable Diffusion Is Producing Horrific Mangled Human Bodies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Human Rights Watch report reveals that the popular LAOIN-5B image-text dataset includes traceable, web-scraped images of real kids.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Being Trained on Images of Real Kids Without Consent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Musk didn't say why, but it's hard to see why he wouldn't.

Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI After It Releases Emails Showing He Was Totally on Board With What He’s Now Criticizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A person driving a Tesla with Full-Self Driving mode had to take the steering wheel after the vehicle became confused by a road worker.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch a Self-Driving Tesla Get Completely Baffled by a Road Worker Directing Traffic

By Sharon Adarlo

A new paper finds that advanced AI language models are terrible at a specificproblem, calling current industry benchmarks into question.

Artificial Intelligence

This Simple Logic Question Stumps Even the Most Advanced AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After Google's AI Overviews was caught generating incorrect answers, Google has slashed AI-generated summaries from 84 to less than 15%.

Google Has Drastically Slashed Its AI Results After Disastrously Embarrassing Launch

By Sharon Adarlo

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 Irish man sued Microsoft after MSN circulated an AI article falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct, per a New York Times investigation.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct

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.

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

A coalition of AI workers are pushing for a "Right to Warn" the public about AI safety concerns, citing concerns over the employee silencing.

OpenAI Insiders Say They’re Being Silenced About Danger

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russia is generating disinformation ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games — and according to Microsoft researchers, it's using AI to do it.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Say Russia Is Using AI to Predict Terrorism at Paris Olympics

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Should genAI be journalism's future, Semafor reports that partisan digital outlets, especially those on the far-right, might get frozen out.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Leaving Right Wing, Conservative Media Outlets In The Past

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI's demand on the US power grid is resulting in changing phase-out deadlines for American coal companies.

Artificial Intelligence

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

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.

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

By Sharon Adarlo

Google's AI search delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries with total confidence. Just one problem: it's wrong. A lot.

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

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.

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

In a gruesome video, a biologist proposes that doctors can perform head transplants by using advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.

Neuroscience and Brain

This Deranged Plan to Transplant a Human Head From One Body to Another Might Be the Dumbest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

By Sharon Adarlo

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that 52 percent of answers to programming questions generated by ChatGPT were incorrect.

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

By Sharon Adarlo

Low-paid African content moderators, many of whom are living with PTSD, are calling on Biden to help ensure fair working conditions.

African Workers Doing OpenAI’s Training Say They’re Being Subjected to “Modern Day Slavery”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After OpenAI copied actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new voice assistant, the head honcho at Microsoft bashed human-like AIs.

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal

By Sharon Adarlo

The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.

Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla owner is lucky to be alive after his vehicle in Full Self-Driving mode almost drove straight into a moving train.

Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Careening Straight Into Moving Train as Driver Desperately Tries to Turn Away

By Sharon Adarlo

Palantir's recent AI and defense expo sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.

Palantir’s Military AI Tech Conference Sounds Absolutely Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI search wants you to change your car's "blinker fluid." No, dear reader: blinker fluid does not exist.

Google’s Search AI Recommends Changing Your Car’s Blinker Fluid, Which Is a Made Up Thing That Does Not Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Avram Piltch, editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware, cooked up a new Chrome extension that can block Google's new feature AI Overviews.

How to Block Google’s Annoying AI Answers With This Cool Browser Plugin

By Sharon Adarlo

After gunmen killed more than 140 people, supporters of the terrorist group ISIS released a slick AI-generated propaganda video.

Artificial Intelligence

ISIS Affiliates Using AI to Generate Propaganda Promoting Terrorism

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft's water use and carbon emissions have increased compared to 2020 numbers due to artificial intelligence datacenters.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Emissions and Water Use Shoot Up as It Goes All in on AI Datacenters

By Sharon Adarlo

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."

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI Mocked for Issuing Infringement Claim Over Its Logo While Scraping the Entire Web to Train AI Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

Artificial Intelligence

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

DeepMind cofounder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wants you to think of AI as a new "digital species."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Executive Says AI Is a “New Kind of Digital Species”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet AngryGF, an AI chatbot-powered girlfriend app that bullies users into learning better communication skills.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Girlfriend Constantly Yells at You in Perpetual Fury

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report from Nieman Labs reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI in its newsroom.

Artificial Intelligence

Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A24 released a series of realistic apocalyptic scenes on Instagram promoting the Civil War movie, but the images are AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

A24 Admits Those Ads for “Civil War” Were AI-Generated

By Sharon Adarlo

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA.) signed up for a master's degree program in machine learning at George Mason University.

Machine Learning

Congressman Getting Master’s Degree in Machine Learning So He Can Make Well-Informed Laws About AI

By Sharon Adarlo

The proposed law would require businesses to disclose a list of all the copyrighted content they used in a training data set for any models.

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Force AI Companies to Reveal Copyrighted Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is set on infusing AI into search. What does that mean for the ad model that brings in the majority of the search giant's revenue?

Google Accidentally Admits Something Very Funny About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An official New York City chatbot has been telling business owners and landlords to break the law, but Mayor Eric Adams defended the tech.

Artificial Intelligence

NYC Mayor Defends AI System That Tells Business Owners to Commit Wage Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis likened the hype shrouding the AI gold rush to that of the crypto industry's high-dollar funding race.

CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CEOs at appliance companies want to put AI in your oven and other household items in order to make them smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

Crazed CEOs Adding AI to Home Appliances

By Sharon Adarlo

An official New York City chatbot designed to help business owners navigate city law apparently knows very little about said laws.

Artificial Intelligence

Official NYC Chatbot Encouraging Small Businesses to Break the Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Daily Beast reports that Boston University suggested its professors should use AI to replace the work of striking graduate students.

Artificial Intelligence

University Leadership Suggest Using AI to Replace Striking Grad Students

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started writing personal letters to employees at Google in an effort to recruit them for Meta's AI projects.

Zuckerberg Emailing Google Employees, Asking Them to Work for Facebook Instead

By Sharon Adarlo

Don't want Google's experimental AI search feature, known as SGE, embedded into your search results page? Too bad.

Google Pushing Its Unsafe Search AI on Users Who Didn’t Opt In

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-integrated Search feature, Search Generative Experience (SGE), is leading platform users straight to malware-laden spam sites.

Google’s AI Search Caught Pushing Users to Download Malware

By Maggie Harrison Dupré