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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

Google has released a baffling new AI feature that turns your web search into a podcast. Is literacy dead?

Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society

By Victor Tangermann

Google's Demis Hassabis recently made the extraordinary claim that AGI will allow us to colonize the galaxy "beginning in 2030."

Google DeepMind CEO Says AI Will Let Us “Colonize the Galaxy” Starting in Five Years

Google has been caught using powered off Android phones to send and receive personal data to serve users targeted ads.

Google Going to Trial After Doing Something Super Sketchy to Android Users

Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new "Will Smith eating spaghetti" AI clip, a far more recognizable Smith can be seen indulging in a tasty-looking plate of noodles.

Artificial Intelligence

The Newest “Will Smith Eating Spaghetti” Video Includes AI-Generated Squelching and Chomping Sounds That Just Might Make You Sick

By Victor Tangermann

Google and Character.AI tried to dismiss a lawsuit that claims chatbots caused a 14-year-old's suicide. The case is moving forward.

Artificial Intelligence

Judge Slaps Down Attempt to Throw Out Lawsuit Claiming AI Caused a 14-Year-Old’s Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elementl Power just announced a signed agreement with Google to erect three project sites for "advanced nuclear energy."

Google is Building Three New Nuclear Plants for Its Extremely Power-Hungry AI

A Google DeepMind executive admitted that the company still trains its AI models on data collected on sites that opted out of AI training.

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

By Frank Landymore

The government is looking to break up Google's monopoly over the internet — and OpenAI is ready to swoop in.

OpenAI Trying to Buy Chrome So It Can Ingest Your Entire Online Life to Train AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Adding the word "meaning" to nonexistent folksy sayings is causing Google's AI Overviews to cook up invented explanations for them.

“You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice”: Google’s AI Is Making Up Explanations for Nonexistent Folksy Sayings

By Victor Tangermann

A woman says she found herself stuck in the middle of an express loop when her self-driving Waymo taxi decided it needed a break.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Passengers Alarmed as Self-Driving Car Kidnaps Them, Refuses to Let Them Exit

Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter — and soon, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it won't take orders from us anymore.

Former Google CEO Warns That AI Is About to Escape Human Control

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google has one weird trick to hoard its artificial intelligence talent from poachers — paying them to not work at all.

Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's crappy "AI Overviews" regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it's being entrusted with health advice.

Google Says Its Error-Ridden “AI Overviews” Will Now Give Health Advice

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?

Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.

Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the richest men on the planet has decided to grab the golden calf and milk AI hype for all it's worth.

The Cofounder of Google Has a Secret New AI Startup

Google, has announced that it's going to expand its infamously terrible and ad-inundated AI Overviews feature.

Google Announces “AI Mode” For Search Results That Only Shows You AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

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An AI Slop “Science” Site Has Been Beating Real Publications in Google Results by Publishing Fake Images of SpaceX Rockets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's so called "AI co-scientist" has been met with skepticism by actual scientists, who've shot down some of the company's claims.

Scientists Say Google’s “AI Scientist” Is Dead on Arrival

By Frank Landymore

Google's AI Overviews confidently insist that MJ Lenderman has won 14 Grammys — even though he's never been nominated for one on his own.

Google’s AI Insists That MJ Lenderman Has Won 14 Grammys

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI and Google appear to be sucking up much-needed traffic to websites and massively screwing publishers over in the process.

ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought

By Noor Al-Sibai

A top boss at Google has made it clear that employees should make enormous sacrifices to develop AGI, as long as it makes him money.

Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them

Chegg has sued Google over its shoddy AI Overviews, accusing the tech giant of diverting traffic from its website.

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Its Loathsome AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

Google either faked its new cheese-centric Super Bowl ad for its AI, or prompted it to plagiarize existing web copy. Either way: bad!

Google’s Super Bowl Ad Accidentally Shows Its AI Simply Plagiarizing Existing Web Copy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has quietly removed a clause stating it will not manufacture weapons or surveillance technology with AI.

Google Quietly Walks Back Promise Not To Use AI for Weapons or Harm

Google's parent company Alphabet failed to hit sales targets, falling a 0.1 percent short of Wall Street's revenue expectations.

Google’s Finances Are in Chaos as the Company Flails at Unpopular AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google appears to have retroactively edited a YouTube-published advertisement for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.

Google Retroactively Edits Super Bowl Ad to Remove Embarrassing Error Its AI Made

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's office with dark red, scary clouds looming behind.

Something Bad Is Brewing Inside Google

Character.AI says it's protected against liability for "allegedly harmful speech, including speech allegedly resulting in suicide."

Artificial Intelligence

A Mother Says an AI Startup’s Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects “Speech Allegedly Resulting in Suicide”

By Jon Christian

Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Is Seeking Partnerships with Media Brands, Despite Still Facing Two Lawsuits over the Welfare of Minor Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In the wake of litigation, Character.AI is restricting minor users' access to some of its most popular AI chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Restricts Minors from Interacting With Bots Based on Real People and Fandom Characters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's controversial search AI was caught recommending that parents use a popular vibrator on children as a method of behavioral therapy.

Google’s AI Caught Recommending Use of Sex Toys on Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" — is run amuck with AI-generated slop.

Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.

Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A dirty-minded Redditor has posted an AI-generated exchange from Google's Notebook LM — and reader, it's very naughty.

We Regret to Bring You This Audio of Two Google AIs Having EXTREMELY Explicit Cybersex

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers found in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study that the threat of quantum computers cracking Bitcoin encryption is very real.

A Quantum Computer Could Crack Bitcoin in Half, Research Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.

A Google-Backed AI Startup Is Hosting Chatbots Modeled After Real-Life School Shooters — and Their Victims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google Says It Appears to Have Accessed Parallel Universes

Google Says It Appears to Have Accessed Parallel Universes

By Victor Tangermann

Google is distancing itself from Character.AI amid piling controversy. But in 2023, Character.AI was named Google Play's "best" AI app.

Character.AI Was Google Play’s “Best with AI” App of 2023

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Google-backed chatbot firm Character.AI is the subject of a new lawsuit after its technology allegedly told kids to engage in self-harm.

Google-Funded AI Coaxed a Troubled Teenager to Start Cutting Himself, Lawsuit Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

A family in Texas has filed a lawsuit, accusing Google-backed AI chatbot company Character.AI of sexually abusing their 11-year-old daughter.

Google-Funded AI Sexually Abused an 11-Year-Old Girl, Lawsuit Claims

By Victor Tangermann

Two new families are suing Character.AI and Google, alleging their kids suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from Character.AI bots.

Google-Backed AI Startup Tested Dangerous Chatbots on Children, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI development is only going to get harder — but didn't write-off "scaling" as a way of making progress.

Google CEO Says Easy AI Gains Are Over

By Frank Landymore

The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Encouraging Teens to Engage in Self-Harm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The multibillion-dollar AI company Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that promote disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss.

Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Is Hosting Pro-Anorexia Chatbots That Encourage Young People to Engage in Disordered Eating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop

The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

The next AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are showing only marginal gains, raising fears about the economic reality of the tech.

OpenAI Alarmed When Its Shiny New AI Model Isn’t as Smart as It Was Supposed to Be

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft wants you to use Bing so badly, it'll pay a user a million bucks who switches to the search engine as part of a huge sweepstakes.

Desperate Microsoft Will Pay $1,000,000 to Someone Who Actually Uses Bing

By Frank Landymore

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.

Google Has Deep Ties to AI Startup Accused to Causing Teen Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by AI.

Google CEO Says 25 Percent of Its Code Is Now AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

As spotted by Redditors, Google Maps' Street View is populating ghostly, liminal-looking commercial interiors in the middle of the ocean.

Google Street View Is Showing Strange “Businesses” in the Middle of the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Google is going all-in on nuclear to power its AI efforts, which have resulted in the tech giant missing important climate targets.

Yet Another Tech Giant Throws Its Weight Behind Nuclear As AI’s Monstrous Power Demands Spike

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Both of the men who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are AI pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology's "godfather."

Researcher Who Just Won the Nobel Prize Quit Google to Warn About Evil AI Coming for Us All

By Noor Al-Sibai

The notoriously unreliable "AI Overviews" that Google forces to the top of search results will now come with sponsored ads.

Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature

By Frank Landymore

A Reddit user forced Google's NotebookLM AI model to riff on a document that was literally full of crap for ten minutes straight.

Google’s AI Turns the Words “Fart” and “Poop” Written 1,000 Times Into an Entire Podcast

By Frank Landymore

Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer, as part of a software licensing deal with his AI startup Character.

Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Get a Single AI Researcher Back

By Victor Tangermann

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

By Frank Landymore

Should you smear human feces on a balloon to potty train your kid? According to Google Search's AI Overview, the answer is yes.

Google’s Search AI Suggests Smearing Fecal Matter on Balloon to Potty Train Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has announced that its flawed and historically inaccurate Gemini AI image-generator will come back online.

Google Re-Activating AI Feature That Generated Images of Racially Diverse Nazis

By Victor Tangermann

Google's latest AI photo editing tool called "Reimagine" is part of the tech giant's latest efforts to enhance photos with the power of AI.

Google’s AI Now Lets You Wildly Alter Photos Right in Your Camera App

By Victor Tangermann

Google claims that its quietly rolled-out AI traffic signal project streamlines the process and reduces stoplight wait times.

Google’s AI Traffic Light Project May Have Been a Mistake

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google got egg on its face Tuesday when the live demo of an AI mobile app would not work in front a large audience.

Google’s Demo of Its Latest AI Tech Was an Absolute Train Wreck

By Sharon Adarlo