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New surveys reflect how most people are concerned about AI compared even amid the incredible hype being blasted out by the tech industry.

Artificial Intelligence

The Average Person Is Far More Scared of AI Than Excited by It, Studies Find

By Frank Landymore

Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok is flooding the platform with ads presented by AI "digital avatars" — and the actors behind these AI puppets are paid next to nothing.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Sells His Likeness So an AI Version of Him Can Shill Garbage on TikTok

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that ChatGPT and other leading AI models display an alarming bias towards other AIs over humans.

New Research Finds That ChatGPT Secretly Has a Deep Anti-Human Bias

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a stunning admission: he believes that the AI industry is currently a huge bubble.

Sam Altman Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Believes We’re in an AI Bubble

By Frank Landymore

McKinsey Terrified as It Realizes AI Can Do Its Job Perfectly

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McKinsey Terrified as It Realizes AI Can Do Its Job Perfectly

By Frank Landymore

The student feared that an AGI would imminently wipe us out — but experts don't think we're anywhere close to building such a powerful model.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Student Drops Out Because She Says AGI Will Kill Everyone Before She Can Graduate

By Frank Landymore

The launch of GPT-5 left fans immensely disappointed and begging for OpenAI's old model back. There's an interesting theory as to why.

There’s a Compelling Theory Why GPT-5 Sucks so Much

By Frank Landymore

Anthropic is appealing a judge's decision that would allow potentially millions of authors to sue for copyright infringement together.

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AI Industry Warns That New Lawsuit Could Destroy It Entirely

By Frank Landymore

You, too, can meet the love of your life if you simply use Google's AI Mode search to do literally everything.

Google’s New Ad Shows a Slopper Meeting the Love of His Life by Surrendering His Brain to the AI’s Instructions

By Frank Landymore

Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

Artificial Intelligence

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They’re Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Public Horrified by Jim Acosta’s Latest Stunt

By Victor Tangermann

Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.

Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to “Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant”

By Frank Landymore

Job seekers are getting increasingly frustrated with encountering AI interviewers during their search for employment.

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Job Seekers Disgusted When They Show Up to Job Interviews and the “Interviewer” Isn’t Even Human

By Victor Tangermann

Funeral companies and grieving families are turning to AI chatbots to cough up obituaries for the recently deceased.

Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries

By Frank Landymore

A federal judge in Mississippi delivered a ruling that was riddled with factual errors, raising concerns that he was using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Judge Accused of Using AI to Issue Garbled Ruling

By Victor Tangermann

A demo for a video game based on "The Matrix" franchise had AI-powered non-playable characters realize they were code inside a simulation.

Artificial Intelligence

In Disturbing Demo, AI-Powered Video Game Characters Panic When Told They’re Just Code

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Microsoft have tried to figure out which jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by generative AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Releases List of Jobs Most and Least Likely to Be Replaced by AI

By Victor Tangermann

AI data centers are causing energy bills to soar in the US's largest power grid, which includes cities like Washington DC and Philadelphia.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Datacenters Are Raising Nearby Residents’ Electric Bills

By Frank Landymore

A CEO who advises other CEOs on how to use AI to replace human jobs doesn't seem to be possessing a whole lotta guilt — or self-awareness.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Brags That He Gets “Extremely Excited” Firing People and Replacing Them With AI

By Frank Landymore

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos just bragged that it used generative AI to create the VFX in its new TV show "The Eternaut."

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Says It Used Video-Generating AI for Special Effects in a New Show

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an "impending fraud crisis" in which practically anybody will be able to imitate others.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is About to Cause a Massive “Fraud Crisis” in Which Anyone Can Perfectly Imitate Anyone Else

By Victor Tangermann

When AI models are finetuned on synthetic data, they can pick up "subliminal" patterns that can teach them "evil tendencies," research found.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by artificial intelligence.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Insiders at the Food and Drug Administration are ringing alarm bells over the agency's use of an AI to fast-track drug approvals.

The FDA Is Using an AI to “Speed Up” Drug Approvals and Insiders Say It’s Making Horrible Mistakes

By Victor Tangermann

Trump admitted he had no idea what Nvidia was while giving a speech about his "AI Action Plan" and standing next to CEO Jensen Huang.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Says He Didn’t Even Know What Nvidia Was

By Victor Tangermann

Axel Springer has repeatedly tried to force AI slop onto Politico — but the publication's writers aren't having any of it.

Artificial Intelligence

Politico’s Owner Is Embarrassing Its Journalists With Garbled AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

A tech entrepeneur using an AI tool to "vibe code" quickly went from praising the tech to fuming about it after it wiped out his database.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible

By Frank Landymore

A county where Meta built an enormous data center is set to be in a water deficit by the end of the decade.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems

By Frank Landymore

Many experts hold that generative AI will have sweeping effects on the job market. But how it will transform the workforce remains a debate.

Artificial Intelligence

These Strange Jobs Will Survive AI, Expert Says

By Victor Tangermann

A new generative AI product claims to offer industry-capable film synthesis built using 100 percent publicly-licensed footage.

Artificial Intelligence

New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films

A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water.

Woman Says Zuckerberg’s AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI and Microsoft are spending millions of dollars to fund an AI training center for teachers. You'll never guess why.

OpenAI Is Pouring Money Into the Second Largest Teachers’ Union

By Frank Landymore

After an "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown refused to admit that its output was AI slop, the outfit is now singing a different tune.

Artificial Intelligence

“Indie Band” Says Claims Their Music Is AI-Generated Is a Hoax, Then Admits It’s Actually AI-Generated

By Victor Tangermann

Music genres once dominated by independent artists are becoming wastelands of unchecked beatspam thanks to the rise of generative AI bots.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms

The person behind a "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI has finally admitted the truth.

Artificial Intelligence

Creator of “Indie Band” Who Insisted It Wasn’t AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

By Victor Tangermann

Crunchyroll, the massively popular anime streaming service and distributor, just got caught using obvious AI slop in its subtitles.

Artificial Intelligence

Crunchyroll Accidentally Left AI Slop in Anime Subtitles

By Frank Landymore

An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown is now claiming that "we never use AI" after being accused of not existing.

Artificial Intelligence

“Indie Rock Band” That’s Clearly Using AI Claims That “We Never Use AI”

By Victor Tangermann

New research explores how customers react to products that are marketed as having AI — with striking results.

Artificial Intelligence

Something Hilarious Happens When Potential Customers See That a Product Has AI Features

By Frank Landymore

Meta is asking Facebook users to share their entire camera roll so its AI can start "restyling" your photos and give "suggestions."

Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos

By Frank Landymore

To train its AI models, Anthropic stripped the pages out of millions of physical books before immediately tossing them out.

Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

By Frank Landymore

To roll out the nearly seven-hour audiobook, Melania partnered with ElevenLabs, a text-to-speech software company.

Melania Trump’s Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

All of the industry's leading AI models resorted to blackmailing users in new tests conducted by researchers from Anthropic.

Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Companies Struggling to Make Their AI Stop Blackmailing People Who Threaten to Shut Them Down

By Frank Landymore

The data annotation company Scale AI that Meta splurged $14 billion to take ownership of was reportedly overrun with "spammers."

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence

By Frank Landymore

Driving a AI wedge between OpenAI and Microsoft is the industry's favorite buzzword: artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

“Nonsensical Benchmark Hacking”: Microsoft No Longer Believes OpenAI Is Capable of Achieving AGI

By Frank Landymore

AI has done something amazing: it's caused the job application process -- which was already a nightmare -- to become even worse.

Artificial Intelligence

Applying to Jobs Has Become an AI-Powered Wasteland

The AI race is accelerating the divide between wealthy nations that boast vast computing powers and nations that don't.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Turbocharging Global Inequality

By Frank Landymore

Google's shoddy AI Overviews allegedly spread damaging lies about a solar company, which is now suing the tech giant for defamation.

Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

There may be no undoing the vast amounts of pollution wreaked by ChatGPT. And that's just tough luck for any AI models that come after it.

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It’s Hobbling Future AI Development

By Frank Landymore

So far, French startup Moment Labs has raised $37 million to build its video production software meant to cut the need for humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop

Ohio State University announced that it will require every student to use AI next semester — regardless of their major.

Artificial Intelligence

College Says Every Student Is Now Required to Use AI

By Frank Landymore

In a sign of the times, YouTube creators are labelling their music playlists with "No AI" to signal that their creations are slop free.

Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Playlists Are Advertising “No AI” as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn is having major regrets after widely bragging about replacing his human staffers with AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have created a dataset using only openly licensed or public domain content and used it to train an AI model.

Artificial Intelligence

The Tech Industry Said It Was “Impossible” to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion

By Frank Landymore

Is Elon Musk telling the truth about his alleged ketamine habit? His chatbot, Grok, doesn't seem to think so.

Elon Rages That He’s Not on Ketamine, But His Chatbot Grok Points Out Serious Discrepancy in His Story

By Frank Landymore

As more and more creative jobs fall away to sloppified AI, American chef Grant Achatz has embraced the tech to build his recipes.

Artificial Intelligence

Famous Chef Boasts That He’s Using AI to Invent New Recipes

Educators are horrified as their students become hopelessly dependent on AI models that do their thinking for them.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students

By Frank Landymore

Amazon engineers saying they're being forced to use AI while being told to do more work on even tighter deadlines.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark

By Frank Landymore

College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City's Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names.

Artificial Intelligence

College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement

By Victor Tangermann

The White House wrote off the errors as "minor citation" mishaps, but it's so much more worse than that. AI's fingerprints are all over it.

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse

By Frank Landymore

RFJ Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report was relying on some extremely questionable sources to back up its claims.

Artificial Intelligence

RFK Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist, in Clear Sign of AI Generated Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Incredibly easy AI jailbreak techniques still work on the industry's leading AI models, even months after they were discovered.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Jailbreak the Strongest AI Models, and the Companies Don’t Care

By Frank Landymore