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An upset Reddit user said they shared several AI art images in a Facebook group and then got banned for posting AI art.
Artificial Intelligence

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their “AI Art”

By Sharon Adarlo

Google faces a $270 million fine from France for using articles from media companies to train its AI chatbot, Gemini, without permission.
Google

Google Hit With Huge Fine for Training AI With News Articles Without Getting Permission

By Sharon Adarlo

AI chip manufacturer Nvidia and the startup Hippocratic AI are teaming up to replace nurses with freaky AI healthcare "agents."
Prosthetics and Devices

Nvidia Announces AI-Powered “Agents” to Replace Nurses in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft has unveiled prototypes for its AI-powered non-playable characters (NPCs), dubbed "NEO NPCs."
Artificial Intelligence

Ubisoft Shows Off AI-Powered NPC That Can Talk Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google researchers say a new AI model called Vlogger can transform a single still image of a person into a moving, talking avatar.
Google

Dystopian Google AI Tool Turns Still Images into Creepy Talking Videos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Department of Homeland Security revealed a sweeping AI roadmap. Some of its proposed applications are concerning.
Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Homeland Security Wants to Use AI to Train Immigration Officers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors are increasingly using AI tools to take clinical notes, a move proponents say will reduce physician burnout and improve patient care.
Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Using AI to Automatically Generate Clinical Notes on Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Arena Group, which allowed for the publishing of AI content to legacy title Sports Illustrated, has lost the venerable magazine entirely.
Artificial Intelligence

The Company That Published Fake AI Authors at Sports Illustrated Just Lost the Whole Magazine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Wondering what data OpenAI used to train its buzzy new text-to-video AI? OpenAI CTO Mira Murati seems to be wondering, too.
OpenAI

In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From

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

Men who hold virulent misogynistic opinions against women are more likely to express interest in having sex with robots.
Future Society

Scientists Just Found Something Dark About Men Who Want to Have Sex With Robots

By Sharon Adarlo

Two Miami teenagers were charged with felonies for creating AI-generated deepfake nudes of underage classmates, a Wired report reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

Middle Schoolers Arrested for Making AI Nudes of Classmates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The bill, called DEFIANCE for short, would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake porn to sue its creators, distributors, and receivers.
Artificial Intelligence

AOC Announces Bill That Would Let Women Sue People Who Make Deepfake Porn of Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Microsoft engineer says the company won't investigate its text-to-image AI's disturbing outputs — so he reached out to the FTC.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Sickened by Images Its AI Produces

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

As AI is increasingly integrated into our lives, scientists building the tech are still trying to understand it, the MIT Tech Review reports.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Have a Dirty Secret: Nobody Knows How AI Actually Works

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MAGA influencers are using generative AI to fabricate photos of Donald Trump alongside smiling Black voters, a BBC report reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

MAGA Uses AI to Invent Pictures of Trump With Black People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's new artificial intelligence chatbot, Copilot, told a user with PTSD that "I don’t care if you live or die."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option

By Sharon Adarlo

A Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town's water to support cloud computing and AI efforts.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Draining Arizona’s Water for its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal
Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal

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

Gemini won't draw you pictures of humans for the time being — but depending on your definition, it may draw some dressed up as clowns.
Future Society

Google Blocked Gemini From Generating Images of Humans, But It Still Does Clowns

By Noor Al-Sibai

This week, Google's News tab suddenly disappeared from Search. Backdrop that with layoffs and AI, and behold: fresh media industry anguish.
Future Society

Amid Brutal Media Layoffs, Google “Tests” Deleting News Tab

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

Screenshots show OpenAI's ChatGPT spouting gibberish and, in one case, even suggesting that it's in the room with users.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Appears to Have Lost Its Mind Last Night

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Otter CEO Sam Liang says a "working prototype" of an AI avatar able to attend meetings in lieu of its human counterpart is on the horizon.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says Later This Year, Your AI Will Be Able to Attend Meetings For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors are already using unregulated and little-tested AI tools to aid in diagnosing patients, prompting concern.
Developments

Regulators Alarmed by Doctors Already Using AI to Diagnose Patients

By Jon Christian

An undisclosed AI outfit has struck a deal to pay Reddit $60 million per year for access to its huge database of users' posts.
Artificial Intelligence

Mysterious Entity Paying Reddit $60 Million to Train AI With Users’ Posts

By Jon Christian

The notoriously pessimistic AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is back with a new prediction about the future of humankind.
Artificial Intelligence

AI May Destroy Humankind in Just Two Years, Expert Says

By Jon Christian

A new attack ad uses AI to summon up footage of Donald Trump's long-deceased dad to excoriate his large adult son.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Dad Resurrected Via AI to Tell Son He’s a Disgrace

By Jon Christian

Companies are using artificial intelligence tools to screen potential employees but they are screening out highly-qualified candidates.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Hiring Tools Are Ignoring Qualified Candidates, Expert Says

By Sharon Adarlo

The more Sora generations, the clearer it is that OpenAI's new text-to-video AI suffers many of the same issues that other AI models do.
OpenAI

The More We See of OpenAI’s Text-to-Video AI Sora, the Less Impressed We Are

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Used to Resurrect Dead Dictator to Sway Election

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you’re hung up after a breakup, now you can plug your ex's emails and texts into an AI model and date the simulacrum instead.
Future Society

After Breakups, the Brokenhearted Are Creating AI Clones of Their Exes

By Ashley Bardhan

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

Meta is promising to roll out auto-labeling for AI-generated images soon — but its new protocols may still fall short of the mark. 
Meta

Meta’s Plans to Label AI-Generated Content Are a Sad Fart

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have not only built an AI child, but now, are training AI systems using headcam footage from a human baby, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train AI Using Headcam Footage From Human Toddler

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet Poem/1, an AI-powered clock that tells time in rhyming poetry. Just one catch: it'll sometimes make things up — the time included.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Clock Sometimes Hallucinates the Wrong Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's DALL-E could be used to make pornographic images like the ones targeting Taylor Swift, Microsoft engineer says.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Says He Was Silenced for Warning About DALL-E Issue Linked to Taylor Swift Nudes

By Sharon Adarlo

A Serbian deejay turned cybersquatter bought The Hairpin domain and is now using it to post AI-generated garbage content.
Future Society

Guy Buys The Hairpin’s Domain, Proudly Turns It Into AI-Powered Zombie Content Mill

By Sharon Adarlo

A man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest him for a robbery in Texas.
Facial recognition

Man Says Sunglass Hut Used Facial Recognition to Falsely Jail Him, Where He Got Sexually Assaulted

By Sharon Adarlo

An artificial intelligence-generated audio deep faked the voice of a New York City politician insulting another colleague.
Future Society

Scandal as AI-Generated Audio of Politician Slamming Colleague Goes Viral

By Sharon Adarlo

Eagle-eyed fans noticed some strange, prominently displayed band posters in the background of a recent episode of HBO's "True Detective."
Future Society

[UPDATED] AI-Generated Poster Confirmed in “True Detective”

By Victor Tangermann

The package delivery company DPD's AI chatbot was caught swearing at customers -- and even insulting DPD itself.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Customer Service Bot Disabled After Trashing Company Using It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has launched this week in a bid to deny President Joe Biden from winning a second term in office.
OpenAI

Group Linked to Sam Altman Launches AI to Defeat Joe Biden

By Sharon Adarlo

The actor who voices Grand Theft Auto V's Michael De Santa called out a tech company for using his voice in an unauthorized AI chatbot. 
Artificial Intelligence

Grand Theft Auto Voice Actor Furious at AI That Copied His Voice

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Sports Illustrated owner The Arena Group has laid off 100 employees, the latest blow to the media organization following its AI scandal.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Publisher Laying Off Staff After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET owner Red Ventures is reportedly having a tough time finding a buyer for the website —  and CNET's AI scandal bears some of the blame.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI
Artificial Intelligence

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new poll found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal.
Artificial Intelligence

80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be Illegal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rite Aid used faulty facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers.
Facial recognition

Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

A new AI-driven chatbot called Ashley is being deployed to phone bank for a Pennsylvania Democrat politician.
Artificial Intelligence

Pennsylvania Politician Using Talking AI Chatbot to Call Thousands of Voters

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft is looking to accelerate the regulatory approval process for setting up new nuclear power plants using AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Training AI to Do Paperwork to Build Nuclear Power Plants

By Victor Tangermann

The Arena Group announced that its board of directors has terminated the employment of its CEO, Ross Levinsohn. 
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gary Gensler, chairman of the SEC, fears that the reliance on a small number of AI models could lead to the entire finance sector to it doom.
Artificial Intelligence

SEC Chair Warns AI “Herding” Could Drive Markets “Off an Inadvertent Cliff”

By Frank Landymore

Top Execs at Sports Illustrated’s Publisher Fired After AI Debacle
Artificial Intelligence

Top Execs at Sports Illustrated’s Publisher Fired After AI Debacle

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An ex-Tesla employee says that the car company's Autopilot system is not safe for use on public roads and could put others at risk.
Tesla

Tesla Whistleblower Says Autopilot Not Safe for Public Roads

By Sharon Adarlo

After Sports Illustrated tried to deny articles were written by AI, people have been criticizing the publication.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Absolutely Roasting Sports Illustrated’s Ridiculous Excuse for Its AI-Generated Writers

By Sharon Adarlo

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In the survey of 1,500 people working tech, Retool found that a startling 51.6 percent of people think AI is overrated.
Artificial Intelligence

Survey Finds Half of Tech Workers Think AI Is a Bunch of Hype

By Sharon Adarlo