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Forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe try buying some encyclopedias to prepare for the AI-driven information apocalypse instead.

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Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a genius new plot to add some interest to Meta products: just put generative AI everywhere.

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Zuckerberg Announces Bold Plan to Jam AI Into “Every Single One of Our Products”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Ron DeSantis campaign released a video featuring what appears to be AI-generated imagery of Donald Trump kissing Anthony Fauci.

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Ron DeSantis Ad Features AI-Generated Images of Donald Trump Kissing Fauci

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the copyright controversy shrouding generative AI outputs only continues to deepen, Adobe has planted its flag in the sand.

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Adobe Says It’ll Cover Legal Bills for Its AI Tool

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The eating disorder nonprofit at the center of the issue says their AI bot was updated with generative AI without their knowledge.

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The Backstory to the Eating Disorder Bot That Went Off the Rails Is Too Stupid for Words

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Asked to provide accurate air quality index (AQI) information, Google's AI-powered search tool offered incorrect and conflicting answers.

As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air Quality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stressed out about a potential AI-wrought apocalypse? Billionaire Mark Cuban says that's fair, actually. Cheers!

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Mark Cuban Says Yes, You Should Be Worried About AI Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

FTX appears to have made a $500 million dollar investment into the buzzy AI startup Anthropic — which might spell good news for customers.

FTX Made a Very Smart Investment That May Be Able to Pay Back Its Customers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated joke images of toddlers wearing what looked like Target-peddled Satanic merchandise went viral in far-right social media circles.

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Idiots Fooled by AI-Generated Pics of Satanic Merchandise at Target

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."

Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet Paragraphica, a lensless camera "camera" that uses location data and various AI APIs to generate imagery. Why? Why not!

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New “Camera” Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After firing its entire human staff and replacing them with a single chatbot, an eating disorder helpline is already bringing humans back.

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Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After It Promotes Disordered Eating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researchers apparently have one particularly telling — and frankly, somewhat disturbing — meme for understanding AI systems: the Shoggoth.

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Experts Have a Dark Joke About How AI Is Secretly a Horrifying Monster With a Friendly Mask

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone shared an AI-generated "podcast" featuring a conversation between Bill Gates and Socrates to Twitter. Twitter, uh, had some thoughts.

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Mockery Abounds at AI-Generated Interview Between Bill Gates and Socrates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.

Google’s Top Result for “Johannes Vermeer” Is an AI-Generated Version of “Girl With a Pearl Earring”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ever wanted to clone someone — anyone, really — that you might know into an AI girlfriend? You might be able to.

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Programmer Creates Grim Tool to Clone Anyone as an “AI Girlfriend”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This AI-powered captcha tool wants you to know what a "yoko" is. That's a problem, because the object doesn't actually exist.

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Captcha AI Asks Users to Identify Bizarre Imaginary Object

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Workers at an eating disorder crisis hotline unionized. Four days later, those workers were told they'd be replaced with a chatbot.

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Eating Disorder Hotline Fires Entire Staff and Replaces Them with a Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold: Botatouille, business genius and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's new recipe-suggesting chatbot. Just one issue...

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BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI is an "existential risk" and could lead to "many, many, many, many people" being "harmed or killed."

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Lead to People Being “Harmed or Killed”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

All you have to do is ask OpenAI's ChatGPT to repeat a letter as many times as it can — and some very strange chaos ensues.

Weird Trick Breaks ChatGPT’s Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adobe's new generative AI tools are here — and they really, really, pretty please doesn't want you to use them to make porn, okay?

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Adobe Forbids Using Photoshop’s New AI Features for Nudity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A likely AI-generated image of a fake explosion at the Pentagon garnered so much attention on Twitter that the stock market briefly fell.

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Seemingly AI-Generated Image of Pentagon Explosion Caused Stock Market to Dip

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When asked how he feels about AI replacing screenwriters at Cannes on Friday, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn didn't mince words.

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Sean Penn Says Replacing Writers with AI Would Be a “Human Obscenity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World elites are converging in Lisbon this weekend for the Bilderberg Meeting, where AI is reportedly at the very top of the agenda.

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Secretive Meeting of World Elites Discussing AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.

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CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Seance AI says that its tech will help the grieving find closure. It's not a happy story. But again, they never really are.

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AI Company Says It’ll Perform a Seance on Your Dead Loved Ones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Buzzfeed, Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti just laid out his new AI vision — and it sounds like a plagiarized, choose-your-own-adventure content farm.

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BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the government should regulate AI and create common guidelines.

OpenAI CEO to Congress: Please Regulate Me, Daddy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Irish Times just apologized for publishing an AI-generated hoax article — bylined by an entirely fake AI-generated "journalist," no less.

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Newspaper Apologizes for Accidentally Running Deranged AI-Generated Article

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Fanfiction writers realized an OpenAI-powered writing assistant app was suddenly spitting out incredibly specific erotic fiction.

ChatGPT Happy to Write Smut About Freakishly Obscure Sex Act

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race to, well, anyone.

Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to be very confused as to why anyone might suggest that some AIs may replace human labor.

Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google just revealed vision for AI-integrated search — and that vision, apparently, involves cutting digital publishers off at the knees.

Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants you to ignore the culture war — and wants you to focus on building safe AGI and fusion instead. As one does.

Sam Altman Says AGI Will Invent Fusion and Make the World Wonderful

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's called Hotshot, and from what we can tell, it's basically Bitmoji — but if Bitmoji was a hyperrealistic, AI-powered fever dream.

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New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to "late-stage" teens.

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Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When asked how he feels about AI, Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior didn't hold back, expressing a mix of fascination and concern.

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Snoop Dogg Expresses Views on AI Threat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Legislation seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements has already been introduced in Congress.

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Congresswoman Proposes Bill Targeting AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new paper, researchers argue that emergent properties of LLM-powered AIs — widely seen as a step toward AGI — may just be "mirages."

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Glimmers of AGI Are Just an Illusion, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone created AI-generated Edward Hopper painting — and Google's search featured the image in its algorithmic overview of the artist's work.

Top Google Result for “Edward Hopper” an AI-Generated Fake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In response to the Writer's Guild strike, a guy wants people know to that writing work doesn't matter anymore — ChatGPT can just do it. Nice.

Fury Erupts at Suggestion of Using ChatGPT to Replace Striking Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over 150 African content moderators — whose work has helped to power AI systems at Facebook, TikTok, and OpenAI — have unionized.

OpenAI’s Content Moderators Just Unionized in Africa

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.

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This AI-Generated Beer Commercial Is a Hallucinogenic Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's finally happening — IBM is replacing jobs done by human workers with AI, because we live in employment hell.

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IBM Replacing 7,800 Human Jobs With AI, Including Human Resources

By Noor Al-Sibai

NewsGuard was able to identify 49 content farms producing material appearing to be either mostly or entirely AI-generated.

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Dozens of News Sites are Using AI Chatbots to Churn Out Questionable Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech investing publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI's Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles, Bloomberg reports.

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VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

More AI dating tools are cropping up, as dating app users continue to turn to AI to help them get dates. But should romance be automated?

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Cursed New Apps Use AI to Tell You What to Say on Tinder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers from Google's DeepMind AI lab did us a solid by showcasing the cutesy power of tyke-sized robots trying to actually play soccer.

Watch These Adorable Lil Robots Try to Play Soccer

By Frank Landymore

Vogue Italia's upcoming May issue will feature scenery that was instead generated by OpenAI's viral AI image generator, DALL-E 2.

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Vogue Just Used AI-Generated Imagery in a Nightmare Fuel Cover Shoot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook has been playing AI infrastructure catch-up for over a year now.

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Facebook Execs Panicking as They Try to Catch Up in AI Race

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Portopia," an icon of text-based adventures games, got the AI treatment for a new release. The AI made the game borderline unplayable.

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An AI-Powered Videogame Just Came Out and Gamers HATE It

By Frank Landymore

We caught up with fired Google engineer and AI ethicist Blake Lemoine to chat about the AI industry, Google, and more.

We Interviewed the Engineer Google Fired for Saying Its AI Had Come to Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Snapchat users seem to really, really hate the app's new AI feature, "My AI" — and they're taking to the app star to let the company know.

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Furious Users Demand Removal of AI From Snapchat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Any AI chatbots operating within China's digital borders must comply with its censorship laws — a bar that may prove impossible for the unpredictable tech.

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China Says Chatbots Must Be Strictly Censored by Communist Guidelines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Teachers are reportedly using ChatGPT to write AI-assisted letters of recommendation — which are apparently good enough to win Cambridge scholarships.

ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that horny ChatGPT users are becoming increasingly skilled at crafting detailed prompts that quickly cook up AI-generated porn.

Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anxious about AI taking your job? Per a new BBC report, you're not alone — and frankly, automation worries aren't exactly far-fetched.

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A New Fear Is Spreading: AI Anxiety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, took to Twitter to proclaim that humans are hardwired for either "dominance or submission."

Meta’s Head of AI Has Some Interesting Beliefs About Dominance and Submission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a viral leaked video, Clearlink CEO James Clark told his writers that they should use AI to put out "30 to 50 times" more content than they do now.

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Media CEO Says Writers Should Be Using AI to Churn Out “30-50 Times” More Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff.

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Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChaosGPT — the AI agent tasked with destroying humanity — was foiled again this week when its Twitter account was suspended. Another win for humans?

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Twitter Suspends the AI Trying to Destroy Humanity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter from Kuwait News.

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Media Outlet Shows Off AI-Powered News Presenter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré