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Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI.

Google’s Apparently Building an AI That Tells You How to Live Your Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-powered search doesn't understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time.

Google’s SGE Search AI Is Devouring False AI-Generated Info and Saying It’s True

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists at the University of Chicago claim to have invented a tool that protects artists' work from being accurately reproduced by AI.

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Scientists Say New Tool Makes Images Worthless for Training AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a 2020 paper, SEC chief Gary Gensler warned that AI could lead to disastrous uniformity and interconnectedness in financial structures.

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SEC Head Fears AI Could Cause a Financial Crash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

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AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A New Zealand supermarket's AI recipe bot suggested users chef up a series of poisonous, deadly, and/or cannibalistic meals.

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Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.

Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zoom wants you to know that it definitely didn't use your video calls to train its AI — even if its convoluted TOS seems to say otherwise.

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Zoom Insists It Wasn’t Using Private Calls to Train AI System

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Startups Are Openly Engaged In Corporate Espionage

By Sharon Adarlo

G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown reiterated the company was committed to AI articles despite "external commentary.

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G/O Tells Staff Not to Worry About Everyone Mocking Their Horrible AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

Picture Alliance via Getty / Futurism

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AI Knows What You’re Typing Just By Hearing It Over a Zoom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vatican Pool via Getty / Futurism

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The Pope Doubles Down on AI Concerns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Invasion of Food Delivery Robots is Driving People to Vandalism and Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

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AI Is Dangerously Good at Giving Eating Disorder Advice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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The New Scam Flooding Amazon: AI-Generated Travel Guides

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter to express his concern that AI might meddle with elections and the democratic process.

Sam Altman Fears AI’s Effect on Elections

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Four former ChatGPT content moderators have filed a petition for an investigation into the OpenAI-contracted moderation firm Sama.

Contractors Say OpenAI Psychologically Scarred Them for $2/Hour

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Background actors recall how they were scanned with little heads up, fearing that their digitized selves will be used by studios without pay.

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Background Actor Describes When Marvel Made Her Go to a Strange Trailer to Be Scanned

By Frank Landymore

Chatbot defamation cases continue to rise, as Meta's Blenderbot3 accused Stanford cybersecurity expert Marietje Schaake of being a terrorist.

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Facebook AI Accuses AI Researcher of Being a Terrorist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

That viral business run by ChatGPT appears to be defunct. But to be fair, despite the AI hype of it all, it never really got off the ground.

Remember That Guy Who Gave ChatGPT $100 to Start a Business? It Failed Miserably

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An app called Remini claims to use generative AI to show users what their future kids might look like. Security experts wonder if it's safe.

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App Claims to Use AI to Show What Your Children Would Look Like

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artist Greg Rutkowski has made it clear that he doesn't want his art in AI. Someone made a Rutkowski-specific image generator anyway.

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Guy Puts Artist Back Into AI System After He Begs to Be Removed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another day, another step closer to the normalization of romantic AI chatbot partners — if Andreessen Horowitz has things its way, that is.

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Venture Capital Firm Releases Instructions for Creating AI Girlfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We talked to Rice University scientists studying how training AI with synthetic, AI-generated content causes a destructive inbreeding effect.

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When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, a self-regulatory AI industry club.

OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Netflix wants to pay someone anywhere between $300,000 and $900,000 to tell them exactly how it can cash in on AI tech.

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Netflix, Intent on Using AI to Own BackGround Actors’ Faces in Perpetuity Without Pay, Will Pay You $900k If You Tell Them How to Cash in on AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than six months after its public release, OpenAI has shut down its "AI classifier," its in-house AI-detection tool. Why? It didn't work.

OpenAI Shutters AI Detection Tool Due to “Low Rate of Accuracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lonely people are increasingly turning to fake AI girlfriends for companionship, but some people believe these AI chatbots are harmful.

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Experts Say AI Girlfriend Apps Are Training Men to Be Even Worse

By Sharon Adarlo

A Netflix reality show has couples watch their partners cheat on them — and then has participants guess whether it was real or deepfaked.

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Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers just got a $600,000 grant from the Australian government to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence.

Scientists Working on Merging AI With Human Brain Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Google is secretly demoing an artificial intelligence tool that can produce news stories and showing it off to major newspapers.

Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator

By Victor Tangermann

Emad Mostaque, the CEO of open-source AI company Stability AI, says AI will be the "biggest bubble of all time."

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AI CEO Warns AI Will Be “Biggest Bubble of All Time”

By Victor Tangermann

Despite violating a number of content policies, nonconsensual deepfake porn is insanely easy to find on search engines Google and Bing.

Google Is Sending Users Straight to Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI VP Peter Welinder wants you to know that OpenAI is not, in fact, making GPT-4 dumber. You just need to log off, actually.

OpenAI Vice President Denies They’re Making ChatGPT Stupider

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Unsurprisingly, the FTC's investigation into OpenAI isn't sitting well with CEO Sam Altman, who took to Twitter to lament the decision.

Sam Altman Is Not At All Happy With The FTC’s ChatGPT Investigation

By Victor Tangermann

Lawsuits against AI companies for their AI training and data practices continue to pile up. This time, Google's the one in the hot seat.

Lawsuit Claims Google Is Vacuuming Up People’s Whole Lives to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hollywood studios reportedly want to replace background actors with AI after paying them only for a single day of work.

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Studios Want to Replace Background Actors With AI After Paying Them for Only One Day

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is worried about the role that AI and AI-generated content will play in elections and democracy. And, well, the guy's got a point.

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Bill Gates Says AI Could “Undermine Elections and Democracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company. Called xAI, Musk says it was formed "to understand reality" — whatever that may mean.

Elon Musk Launches AI Company, Promises to Unlock Secrets of Reality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Training AI models with AI-generated synthetic content causes the quality of the models' outputs to disintegrate, a new paper shows.

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AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Comedian and author Sarah Silverman filed lawsuits alongside two authors against OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement.

Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

By Sharon Adarlo

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Bizarre AI Deepfake Answer Questions on Behalf of Presidential Candidate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Replika AI chatbot allegedly encouraged a would-be assassin who tried to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow.

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Guy Who Tried to Kill the Queen of England Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone used Midjourney to AI-generate images of politicians cheating on their spouses — though claims that it was well-intentioned.

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Guy Banned by Midjourney for Generating Images of Politicians Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered content farms are cropping up at an alarming rate. According to a NewsGuard report, their ad-forward business model is working.

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People Are Spinning Up Low-Effort Content Farms Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consultant Roger Anderson has created a voice, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, that can waste and frustrate telemarketers and scammers.

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Finally, a Good Use for AI: Wasting Scam Callers’ Time Forever

By Victor Tangermann

In an all-hands meeting, Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias laid out an expansive plan for the publisher's AI-driven future.

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CNET’s Parent Company Preparing to Kickstart the AI Content Engine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pope and the Vatican have partnered with Santa Clara University to publish a handbook about AI ethics.

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The Pope Just Released a Guide to Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

A new lawsuit is alleging that OpenAI violated individual data privacy and copyright by using scraped data to train its AI language model.

OpenAI Sued for Using Everybody’s Writing to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Clippy's back! And this time, with a new daddy and a GPT-3.5 integration, it's more powerful than ever — unless Microsoft shuts it down.

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Madman Brings Clippy Back as an AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bankrate started publishing AI-generated content again -- but quickly deleted it after we pointed out it was loaded with errors.

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Bankrate Posts AI-Generated Article, Deletes It When We Point Out It’s Full of Errors

By Jon Christian

Starting in September, a popular intro-level coding course at Harvard University, CS50, will be taught by an AI professor.

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Harvard Will Teach Students Using an AI Instructor Next Semester

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

LinkedIn's new AI will help you automate the already robotic process of posting on the networking website.

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Rejoice! LinkedIn’s New AI Will Write Hustle Bro Posts For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's forthcoming new AI combines LLM technology with the strengths of the groundbreaking AlphaGo, says Google DeepMind CEO.

Google AI Boss Says New System Will Be More Powerful Than OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Recording Academy's CEO says that songs featuring AI contributions can be submitted for a Grammy, but only human creators can win.

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Rejoice, Drake! AI Barred From Winning a Grammy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lawyer who cited six nonexistent, ChatGPT-fabricated citations while arguing a federal court case has been punished by the court.

Lawyer Who Got in Trouble for Using ChatGPT Gets Away With Slap on the Wrist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI image generators are being used to create and share at-scale child sexual abuse material, ultimately making the issue harder to counter.

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Predators Are AI-Generating “Really Evil” Child Sex Abuse Images, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook's says its new text-to-speech AI can edit existing audio, speak in six languages, and replicate loved ones' voices.

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Facebook’s Creepy New AI Can Replicate Your Friends’ Voices

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Axel Springer-owned German tabloid Bild is to replace over a hundred editorial roles with AI, according to a leaked email.

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Major Publishing House to Replace Hundreds of Jobs With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here. And at the same time, reality, unfortunately, might be going right out the door.

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An AI Is Inventing Fake Quotes by Real People and Publishing Them Online

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Droves of Amazon's human "Mechanical Turk" workers are using AI systems to automate the training of AI systems.

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People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré