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

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

By Sharon Adarlo

In a new essay, Oxford researchers argue that scientists should abstain from using text-generating AI tools as research aids.

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Scientists Warn That AI Threatens Science Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After firing CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI's board reportedly offered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — a former OpenAI employee — the CEO gig.

OpenAI Secretly Tried to Merge With Anthropic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report says that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's high-dollar side projects might have been the reason for his firing.

This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study pitting human children against large language models in basic reasoning problems revealed AIs to have one big blind spot: innovation.

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In New Experiment, Young Children Destroy AI at Basic Tasks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Once again, a much-hyped AI product launch has featured glaring AI hallucinations. This time, Humane's AI Pin is the one in the hot seat.

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That Hyped Up AI Pin Made Two Idiotic Mistakes in Its Launch Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent study found that LLMs are incredibly good steganographers, able to obscure their own thought processes through "encoded reasoning."

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AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Data is the vital force of large AI models, and thus of the industry itself. But it's also a finite resource — and companies could run out.

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AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Welsh police used facial recognition software to scan people suspected of terrorism or pedophilia at a Beyonce concert.

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Police Scanned Beyoncé Concert for Pedophiles, Terrorists

By Sharon Adarlo

Linda Yaccarino regrets that she was not able to use her boss Elon Musk's wildly vulgar AI chatbot, Grok, to give her kids the "talk."

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Twitter CEO Says She Wishes Elon Musk’s AI Would Talk About Sex With Her Kids

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft filed a patent for an AI therapist, designed to pick up on emotional cues and offer emotional support. How does that make you feel?

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Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Therapy App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's first DevDay was jam-packed with updates and announcements. But according to CEO Sam Altman, we've yet to scratch the AI surface.

Sam Altman Says What OpenAI’s Secretly Working on Will Make Today’s AI Seem “Quaint”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It turns out that former President Barack Obama had a heavy hand in crafting current President Joe Biden's AI framework.

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Obama Has Secretly Been Working on AI for Biden

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Guardian wants answers after Microsoft ran a gross AI poll next to one of its articles about a woman found dead in Australia.

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Microsoft Runs Ghoulish AI Poll Next to Article About a Dead Woman

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-powered "bespoke smoothie shop" called BetterBlends marketed itself as "the most personalized restaurant, ever." It lasted three weeks.

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AI-Powered Smoothie Shop Goes Out of Business Almost Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In case you weren't existentially worried about AI-developed bioweapons, your fears may not be entirely unwarranted.

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Biden Terrified AI Will be Used to Create Bioweapons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At first glance, Biden's executive order on AI feels thorough — but a closer look shows more promises than firm regulation or requirements.

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Joe Biden’s Executive Order on AI Is Expansive, But Vague

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AI doesn't have to be AGI-level smart to take control of our feeble human minds.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Learning “Superhuman Persuasion”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI is arguing that ChatGPT is only a drafting tool, and thus can't be held legally responsible for any hallucinations it spits out.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A leader in Google's artificial intelligence division in the United Kingdom says that AI poises a big threat to humanity like climate change.

Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apple is spending $1 billion per year on generative AI, which may soon manifest in a smarter Siri and AI capabilities in other programs.

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Apple Is Apparently Spending Billions on Secret AI Development

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold, the transformational power of generative AI technology: generating photorealistic images of lil' tykes gleefully smoking cigs.

OpenAI Image Generator Draws Pictures of Children Smoking Cigarettes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Facebook’s Kendall Jenner AI Recommends Other Tequilas Over Hers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit regarding its AI training practices, which the suit alleges amount to theft.

Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Meta's AI-powered Tom Brady horcrux, Colin Kaepernick just isn't good enough to play in the NFL. Oh, yeah, and he's "drama."

Meta’s AI-Powered Tom Brady Bot Trashes Colin Kaepernick, Saying He “Ain’t Good Enough” to Play in the NFL

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stack Overflow, is laying off 28 percent of its staff, just as OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing a big surge in popularity for coding help.

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Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

By Sharon Adarlo

AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette — but according to some who have used the meeting bots, the AIs don't always understand nuance.

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Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space Force leaders have forbidden their Guardians from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT on government devices.

Space Force Gets Scared, Pauses All Use of Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the "Godfather of AI," is worried that AI might take over the world one day.

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Godfather of AI Admits He Fears His Creation Could “Take Over From Humanity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An analyst from a tech advisory firm said that generative AI is slated for a slowdown next year due to increasing costs.

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Generative AI Is Headed for a Financial “Cold Shower” Next Year, Analyst Predicts

By Sharon Adarlo

Fun's over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized Bing's DALL-E 3-powered AI Image Creator.

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Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing’s Image Generating AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If Seekr's AI algorithm is to be believed, The Messenger's reporting isn't all that reliable. Tough foot for a partnership to start on, no?

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News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, Disney — a company famous for its fierce defense of its IP — doesn't have a squeak to say about AI-generated Terrorist Mickey.

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Disney Has No Comment on Microsoft’s AI Generating Pictures of Mickey Mouse Doing 9/11

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.

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Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's search AI thinks you can melt eggs. Its source? ChatGPT. Cheers to the end of the internet's usability!

Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BuzzFeed's stock has been tumbling for months, and it appears that Buzzy the Robot may not be enough to save it from Nasdaq doom.

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What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta is marching forward with its solution for reviving declining user numbers: introducing an array of AI-powered chatbots to its services.

Losing Human Users, Facebook Releasing Chatbots for Lonely to Talk To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Parents in Spain are mad after naked deepfake pictures of their daughters were circulated in local schools.

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Parents Furious After Deepfaked Nudes of Daughters Circulate at Schools

By Sharon Adarlo

Google "Tank Man," and you might be met with a fake, AI-generated "Tank Man Selfie" as the search engine's top — and featured! — result.

Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of confidential company data — all because of one misconfigured permission token.

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Microsoft’s AI Team Accidentally Leaks Terabytes of Company Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The IRS announced Monday that it will use "cutting-edge" AI tech to hold the US' wealthiest people and company accountable to tax debt.

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The IRS Says It’s Using AI to Bust Zillionaire Tax Cheats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Copyright Office has refused to hand Jason Allen copyright protection for an award-winning, AI-generated artwork.

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Government Refuses to Copyright Award-Winning AI Artwork

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook is secretly developing a powerful new AI model designed to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4.

Meta Is Apparently Developing a Secret, Powerful New AI

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.

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Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Top prosecutors from all 54 US states and territories are urging Congress to take action against AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

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Every Single State’s Attorney General Is Calling for Action on AI-Generated Child Abuse Materials

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.

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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.

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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."

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We spoke to a Gannett sports writer about high school sports coverage, why it matters, and what gets lost when you automate.

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Gannett Sports Writer on Botched AI-Generated Sports Articles: “Embarrassing”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Steve Williams, VFX bigwig, predicts a 100 percent AI movie will be released to the public, who won't suspect it's completely fake.

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Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There’ll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie

By Sharon Adarlo

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.

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USA Today and Many Other Newspapers Are Churning Out Terrible AI-Generated Sports Stories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent study showed that OpenAI's ChatGPT was providing incorrect advice on cancer treatment, potentially causing harm to patients.

ChatGPT Caught Giving Horrible Advice to Cancer Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was clearly annoyed by a blog post declaring that Google's forthcoming Gemini model will quickly surpass GPT-4.

OpenAI Rages at Report That Google’s New AI Crushes GPT-4

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.

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We talked to Keith Thomas, the first paralysis patient to receive a movement and feeling-restoring double neural bypass surgery.

His Entire Body Was Paralyzed. Then They Put AI-Powered Chips in His Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Columbus Dispatch has paused AI efforts after its sports writing AI started publishing awful articles about local high school match-ups.

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USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.

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Are We Ready For This Site’s Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.

Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI is funding an AI-powered personal assistant app for parents called Milo, which is currently in beta mode.

OpenAI Is Funding an App for Parents to Manage Kids’ Lives

By Sharon Adarlo