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Elon Musk tweeted that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was probably right about technology being a disaster for the human race.

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Elon Musk Says Maybe the Unabomber Was Right

By Sharon Adarlo

After warning that AI could kill us all, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argued that AI could help fill in for the babies we're not having.

Former Google CEO Says AI Can’t Destroy Humankind If We Do It First

By Victor Tangermann

Writers are furious that Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the world's largest fanfiction websites, won't ban AI-generated fanfiction.

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Writers Furious When Fanfiction Site Won’t Ban AI-Generated Work

By Sharon Adarlo

A man has written almost 100 books using AI and claims he has "sold 574 books for a total of nearly $2,000 between August and May."

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Man Uses AI to Write 97 Terrible Books, Sells $2,000 Worth

By Sharon Adarlo

If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they were wiped out by superhuman AI.

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Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying “Great Filter”

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

Pro-tip for editors: do not, under any circumstance, publish an AI-generated "interview" with someone you didn't actually interview.

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Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.

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Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An absolutely deranged new video shows an artificial intelligence interpreting famed actor Will Smith indulging in a bowl of spaghetti — well, that was the intent at least.

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Horrific AI-Generated Video Shows Will Smith Eating Spaghetti

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed pledged to do a good job with its AI content. But then it quietly started posting entire articles written by AI.

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BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

Goldman Sachs wants you to replace your costly human labor force with generative AI. Look on the bright side, though: huge savings.

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Goldman Sachs Salivates at AI’s Potential to Mass Fire Workers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An open letter, signed by over 1,100 AI experts andCEOs, including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is calling for a six-month moratorium on "AI experiments."

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Huge Group Calls for Temporary Pause on AI More Advanced Than GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

An impressive new deepfake video reimagines the well-known cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style ad for the Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga.

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Perplexing AI Video Turns “Harry Potter” Into Balenciaga Ad

By Victor Tangermann

A team of AI scientists is claiming that just like humans can solve problems through self-reflection, Large Language Model (LLM) AIs might be able to, too.

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AI Seems to Do Better on Tasks When Asked to Reflect on Its Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbot company Replika has reinstated the ability for users to have sexually charged conversations with its AI-based avatars, Reuters reports.

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Replika Users Rejoice! Erotic Roleplay Is Back in AI-Powered App

By Victor Tangermann

Trump decided to take to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Thursday to post an almost certainly AI-generated image of himself kneeling to pray.

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Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Humane just raked in $100 million in a Series C funding round, inking Microsoft and OpenAI deals in the process. What are they actually selling, though?

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Company Raises $100M After Announcing Shift to AI, But Has No Discernible Product

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a report from CNBC, the Google-built Bard is a total and complete mess, and no one really seems to know what to actually do with the AI tech.

Chaos Inside Google as Execs Try to Figure Out How to Actually Use AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If or when AIs becomes conscious, they're going to need rights, a pair of theorists argue — and the outcomes available to us aren't that great.

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Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the “Conscious” AIs of the Future

By Noor Al-Sibai

Impressed by OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT? Cool, but the folks over at OpenAI aren't really sure why. To them, it's old news.

OpenAI Confused by Why People Are So Impressed With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.

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CNET’s Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news channel is here, claiming to be the antidote to biased news. It's called NewsGPT, and we hate it.

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Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI is for-profit, closed-source, and in bed with a legacy tech giant, despite its non-profit, closed-source roots. Can we trust them with building AGI?

OpenAI Seems Like a Very Sleazy Company to Be Creating World-Changing AGI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI chatbot trend has given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which, unlike coding, involves simply speaking to these chatbots.

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Get a Load of This New Job: “Prompt Engineers” Who Act as Psychologists to AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for.

Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The OpenAI-built ChatGPT will have you receiving prestigious awards, writing bestselling novels, and more — even if those accolades are nonexistent.

When ChatGPT Writes Bios for People, They’re Littered With Fabrications

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET was treating its human journalists like robots long before turning to AI-generated content. I would know -- I worked there.

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CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Sarah Szczypinski

BuzzFeed's AI-generated quiz-o-matic just dropped, and reader, there's not a lot of intelligence, artificial or otherwise, going on there.

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BuzzFeed’s AI Quizzes Seem Kind of Broken, Honestly

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

McDonald's customers on TikTok are sharing their horrendous experiences with the company's half-baked AI drive-thru chatbots.

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McDonald’s Drive-Thru AI Giving Customers Hilariously Wrong Orders

By Victor Tangermann

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first AI story.

Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

By Jon Christian

Google is warning netizens to watch out for AI-generated content regarding "health, civic, or financial information." So, you know, the important things.

Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is often wrong, and yet it's somehow always certain, even tending to double down on incorrect answers. Sound familiar?

ChatGPT Is Just an Automated Mansplaining Machine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A brilliant ChatGPT jailbreak lets you bypass many of its guardrails against unethical outputs -- and it has some interesting implications.

Amazing “Jailbreak” Bypasses ChatGPT’s Ethics Safeguards

By Jon Christian

Metaverse CEO Says ChatGPT Is Speeding Up Timeline for Emulating Dead People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's ChatGPT is reportedly the fastest-growing app in human history, reaching an estimated 100 million active monthly users in just the two months.

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ChatGPT’s Explosive Popularity Makes It the Fastest-Growing App in Human History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI image generators like Midjourney aren't 100 percent perfect, particularly when it comes to rendering images of human hands.

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Here’s Why AI Is so Awful at Generating Pictures of Humans Hands

By Victor Tangermann

CNET leadership was reportedly aware that its deeply flawed AI had a habit of fabricating facts and plagiarizing others' work — and deployed it anyway.

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Red Ventures Knew Its AI Lied and Plagiarized, Deployed It at CNET Anyway

By Jon Christian

Leaked messages from CNET's parent company, Red Ventures, show deep concern about a potential consequence of AI-generated content.

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Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content

By Jon Christian

Google researchers have shown off the latest tricks they've taught MusicLM, their AI model that can turn simple text prompts into music.

Google’s Powerful New AI Can Turn Text Into Music

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Oxford told UK lawmakers that "superhuman AI" could end up being at least as dangerous as nuclear bombs and should be regulated like them.

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Oxford Scientists Warn AI Could Be More Deadly Than Nuclear Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

Online course provider Study.com asked 1,000 students over the age of 18 about the use of ChatGPT, and found almost half already used it to cheat.

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89 Percent of College Students Admit to Using ChatGPT for Homework, Study Claims

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT Shamelessly Writes Letter Announcing Layoffs While Promoting Execs and Quoting MLK

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ChatGPT Shamelessly Writes Letter Announcing Layoffs While Promoting Execs and Quoting MLK

By Victor Tangermann

This morning, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo broke the site's lengthy silence on its decision to publish dozens of AI-generated articles on its site.

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News Site Admits AI Journalist Plagiarized and Made Stuff Up, Announces Plans to Continue Publishing Its Work Anyway

By Jon Christian

An Italian clothing line, Cap_able, just released a collection of knitwear that tricks facial recognition software into registering you as an animal.

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Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.

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CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

By Jon Christian

An AI has created stills from a non-existent Alejandro Jodorowsky version of "The Matrix" that "stars" Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus — and it's honestly epic.

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AI Dreams Up 1980s “Matrix” Starring Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial intelligence stands to be the first major, technology-driven shakeup to the white collar marketplace, experts say.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Steal Your High Paying Job, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET and Bankrate parent company Red Ventures says it's pausing its AI-generated content efforts -- until the negative press dies down, at least.

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CNET and Bankrate Say They’re Pausing AI-Generated Articles Until Negative Headlines Stop

By Jon Christian

An artificial intelligence dubbed Claude got a "marginal pass" on a recent blindly graded law and economics exam at George Mason University.

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Dark Horse AI Gets Passing Grade in Law Exam

By Victor Tangermann

Dubious online marketers at the notorious SEO forum BlackHatWorld see CNET's use of AI as a sign of Google opening the floodgates to AI written content.

SEO Spammers Are Absolutely Thrilled Google Isn’t Cracking Down on CNET’s AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

CNET insiders are making a startling claim: that the tech site has been secretly publishing material that wasn't labeled as bot-written at all.

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CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn’t Disclose That Fact, Staff Say

By Jon Christian

Any and all CNET stories about AI are marked with a very odd editor's note that lets readers know that elsewhere on the site, AI is writing articles.

Artificial Intelligence

After Scandal, CNET Adds Strange Disclaimer to Human-Written Articles About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's CEO is warning that its long-rumored successor, GPT-4, could end up being a huge letdown, given the sheer volume of attention.

OpenAI CEO Says Unfortunately, People Will Be Disappointed With GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

College Student Caught Submitting Paper Using ChatGPT

College Student Caught Submitting Paper Using ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Developer Miles Zimmerman shared now-viral images of a demonic house party dreamed up by AI image generator Midjourney on Twitter over the weekend.

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We’re Fascinated by These AI-Generated Party Pics… Especially Their Demonic Mutations

By Victor Tangermann

A group of artists are suing Stable Diffusion, an open-source AI image generator, for unfairly using their art to train its AI.

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Artists Sue Stable Diffusion and Midjourney for Using Their Work to Train AI That Steals Their Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.

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CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

By Jon Christian

There already appears to be an generative AI-powered Substack, and it already appears to have word-for-word plagiarized human work. Cheers.

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Viral AI-Written Article Busted as Plagiarized

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Without consciousness, AI-powered chatbots are doomed to turn into dangerous sociopaths, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano warns.

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Neuroscientist Warns That Current Generation AIs Are Sociopaths

By Victor Tangermann

Despite the VC gold rush, this expert is arguing that hype — as opposed to firm data and proven results — is in the generative AI industry driving seat.

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Deep Learning Expert Says GPT Startups May Be in for a Very Rude Awakening

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Princeton University computer science student Edward Tian has created an app that can detect whether a given text is generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT.

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There’s a Problem With That App That Detects GPT-Written Text: It’s Not Very Accurate

By Victor Tangermann

Consciousness is one of the biggest questions within the field of artificial intelligence. To some it's science fiction; to others, it's a goal.

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Scientists Say They’re Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In spite of being founded as a humanity-benefitting non-profit, OpenAI now appears to be doing the opposite with a multi-billion-dollar investment offer.

OpenAI Was Founded to Counter Bad AI, Now Worth Billions as It Does The Opposite

By Noor Al-Sibai