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OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to "remember" prior conversations — and it's very easily exploited.

You Can Insert False Memories Into ChatGPT, Researcher Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but that access is very limited.

Authors Suing OpenAI Will Get to See Its Secret Training Data in Heavily Locked Down Room

By Noor Al-Sibai

As AI chatbots get bigger and more powerful, they are also lying more, instead of declining questions they can't answer.

Artificial Intelligence

The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie, Worrying Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.

OpenAI Pivoting From “Benefiting Humanity” to “Making Lots of Money”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg argued that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value" of their work.

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Zuckerberg Says It’s Fine to Train AI on Your Data Because It Probably Has No Value Anyway

By Victor Tangermann

An assistant professor of philosophy was shocked to find her students use ChatGPT to "briefly introduce" themselves.

Professor Horrified When Students Use ChatGPT to Generate “Briefly Introduce Yourself” Assignment… in Ethics Course

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is losing even more executives — right as Reuters reports that it's looking to restructure its core business.

OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

The official OpenAI Newsroom account on X, formerly Twitter, was hacked by someone to promote a fake token as part of a phishing attack.

Official OpenAI Twitter Account Taken Over by Hackers to Shill Crypto Scheme

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waxed prolific about the future of artificial intelligence and chose some strange units of measurement to describe.

Sam Altman Invents Bizarre New Unit of Time for Measuring When His Promises Will Come True

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI Staff Upset by Company’s Horrendous New Logo

By Frank Landymore

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

A ChatGPT conversation went viral on Reddit purportedly showing the chatbot reaching out to a user first. Other users are crying foul.

OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted

By Victor Tangermann

o1-preview's "chain-of-thought reasoning" allows users to get a glimpse of what the model is "thinking." It also shows how its deceiving.

OpenAI’s Strawberry “Thought Process” Sometimes Shows It Scheming to Trick Users

By Victor Tangermann

In a creepy new video, ChatGPT's voice mode is heard screaming eerily when a user prompted the OpenAI chatbot to do so.

It Turns Out ChatGPT’s Voice Mode Can Scream, and It’s an Upsetting Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's newfangled o1-preview AI model is still struggling with the absolute basics — like counting letters.

OpenAI’s New “Strawberry” AI Is Still Making Idiotic Mistakes

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released its long-awaited AI model, which was previously code-named "Strawberry," called OpenAI o1-preview.

OpenAI Just Released Its Long-Awaited “Strawberry” Model

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is rumored to release an AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason as soon as this week.

OpenAI Launching “Strawberry” Model With “Human-Like Reasoning” as Soon as This Week

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates, the seventh-richest man in the world, has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research.

Bill Gates, Who Could Afford a Private Army of Researchers, Says He Does His Research Using ChatGPT, Which Makes Mistakes Constantly

By Noor Al-Sibai

A chef in Dubai used OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to come up with a pizza recipe — and as it turns out, it started selling like hotcakes.

Chef Admits His Smash Hit Pizza Was Invented by ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

AI-generated content flooding the web. That could be a problem for AI models, which are widely trained via web-scraped data.

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AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI technology is becoming so advanced that researchers propose people start using personhood credentials to verify they are human.

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CAPTCHAs Becoming Useless as AI Gets Smarter, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

The California bill, SB 1047, has been criticized by companies like OpenAI for potentially stifling the nascent AI industry.

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Tech Companies Furious at New Law That Would Hold Them Accountable When Their AI Does Bad Stuff

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI found that its latest AI model GPT-4o can unexpectedly imitate users' voices without their permission.

ChatGPT Went Rogue, Spoke In People’s Voices Without Their Permission

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI keeps losing top talent, indicating some considerable inner turmoil. Are they worried OpenAI is making empty promises?

Why Are OpenAI’s Most Prominent Employees Leaving?

By Victor Tangermann

John Schulman, AI safety researcher and OpenAI cofounder, has departed the ChatGPT creator and joined the ranks of OpenAI rival Anthropic.

OpenAI Cofounder Quits to Join Rival Started by Other Defectors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The voice mode that comes with OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model seems to have some trouble counting and, er, breathing.

ChatGPT Voice Mode Is Having Serious Trouble Counting to 100

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly developed effective tools for marking and tracking AI-generated content. Why isn't it releasing them?

OpenAI Has Software That Detects AI Writing With 99.9 Percent Accuracy, Refuses to Release It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new video, OpenAI's GPT-4o is heard telling a user that it apparently needs to breathe just like everyone else.

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Voice Mode Says It Needs to Breathe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To keep generative AI models running requires huge amounts of electricity — and the US' aging power grid is struggling to handle the load.

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America’s Ramshackle Power Grid Is Straining Under the Load of Generative AI

By Victor Tangermann

An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the money spent on AI.

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Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn’t Making Any Serious Money

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI entered the AI search market this week with a prototype of a search tool called SearchGPT. There's an error in its demo.

OpenAI Reveals AI-Powered Search Engine, Which Instantly Makes Factual Mistake in Demo

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Runway's Gen-3 Alpha text-to-video AI generator was trained on pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, 404 Media reports.

Leak Shows That Google-Funded AI Video Generator Runway Was Trained on Stolen YouTube Content, Pirated Films

By Victor Tangermann

Many content makers have put up restrictions on their content in the past year, which prevents AI companies from scraping them for data.

Artificial Intelligence

Crisis Looms as AI Companies Rapidly Losing Access to Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

As OpenAI releases yet another new GPT model, CEO Sam Altman has finally admitted that it might be time for a new name.

Sam Altman Admits Its Letters-and-Numbers Salad Product Names Like “GPT-4o Mini” Are Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI wants to see the notes to assess The New York Times' copyright claims, in the newspaper's legal battle against the AI company.

OpenAI Demands to See All Notes by New York Times Reporters

By Frank Landymore

In a recent survey, a pair of researchers found that many ChatGPT users have interesting misconceptions about the OpenAI chatbot.

Most Users Think ChatGPT Is Conscious, Survey Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI spent only a single week safety testing its new model GPT-4o, according to insiders at the company.

Whistleblowers Say OpenAI Broke Promise to Rigorously Test AI for Danger Before Releasing

By Frank Landymore

Former safety researcher William Saunders said that he didn't want to work for the "Titanic of AI," so he quit.

OpenAI Researcher Says He Quit When He Realized the Upsetting Truth

By Victor Tangermann

James Ferguson, founding partner of research firm MacroStrategy Partnership, argues AI is "unproven" and due for a collapse.

Artificial Intelligence

Expert Warns That AI Industry Due for Huge Collapse

By Victor Tangermann

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines

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Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have developed a computer virus that can use ChatGPT to disguise itself by changing its own code and write human-like emails.

Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself

By Victor Tangermann

Less than a year after joining xAI's founding team, one of the researchers poached by Elon Musk has apparently returned to OpenAI.

AI Researcher Elon Musk Poached From OpenAI Returns to OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

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Microsoft Acknowledges “Skeleton Key” Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AI

By Victor Tangermann

We asked OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, which is designed to browse the web, about a current event — and it sent us directly to spam-ridden AI sludge.

ChatGPT-4o Is Sending Users to a Scammy Website That Floods Your Screen With Fake Virus Warnings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers submitted AI-generated answers to tests at a university, fooling professors and earning better grades versus actual students.

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AI-Generated Answers Fool Professors, Get Better Grades Than Human-Written Ones

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's ChatGPT was caught giving spitting out false voting information for battleground states and even omitted crucial voting data.

ChatGPT Is Giving Bad Info About Where to Vote in Battleground States

By Sharon Adarlo

The Voice Mode assistant for ChatGPT, originally teased in May, has been delayed for at least another month, according to OpenAI.

OpenAI Fans Slam Delay of ChatGPT Voice Mode, as Company Hints at Trouble Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati suggested that the artists who lose their jobs to AI probably deserve it.

OpenAI Exec Says AI Will Kill Creative Jobs That “Shouldn’t Have Been There in the First Place”

By Frank Landymore

According to a new interview, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's office has a framed picture of a robot destroying a city.

The CEO of Anthropic Has a Framed Picture of a Giant Robot Destroying a City on His Wall

By Jon Christian

OpenAI confirmed that it has removed VIC, the AI chatbot running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, from public view.

OpenAI Imprisons AI That Was Running for Mayor in Wyoming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After leaving OpenAI, founding member and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is starting his own firm to build "safe" superintelligence.

OpenAI Scientist Ousted After Failed Coup Against Sam Altman Is Starting a New AI Company

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI just named former NSA director Paul Nakasone to its board. Infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, for one, had some thoughts.

Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI startup Runway has released its latest AI video generator called Gen-3 Alpha — and judging by sample clips, it's impressive.

Artificial Intelligence

This New AI That Generates Video Is Awfully Impressive

By Victor Tangermann

According to Bloomberg, neither party expects a direct boost in revenues from their partnership that is nonetheless significant.

It Turns Out Apple Is Only Paying OpenAI in Exposure

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT is either ignoring or generating fake links to articles from Business Insider even though the two organizations have a deal.

ChatGPT Is Hallucinating Fake Article Links by One of Its Publishing Partners

By Sharon Adarlo

In a new Washington Post interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that he's not "100 percent" sure the company's AI will stop lying.

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Tim Cook Admits Apple May Never Be Able to Make Its AI Stop Lying

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Musk didn't say why, but it's hard to see why he wouldn't.

Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI After It Releases Emails Showing He Was Totally on Board With What He’s Now Criticizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech giant Apple has finally shown off its own take on artificial intelligence tech. We've seen this all before.

Apple’s Huge AI Announcement Is a Chatbot and an Image Generator, Which Is the Exact Same Boring Offering as Microsoft, Google and Meta

By Victor Tangermann

One of the OpenAI directors who ousted CEO Sam Altman is issuing some stark warnings about the future of unchecked artificial intelligence.

Former OpenAI Director Warns There Are Bad Things AI Can Do Besides Kill You

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a shocking admission about his ex-employer's plans for AGI.

Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start AGI Bidding War With China and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers warn that companies like OpenAI and Google could soon run out of human-written training data for their AI models.

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AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can’t Get Smarter

By Victor Tangermann

Fusion startup Helion is in talks for a deal with OpenAI to "buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers."

OpenAI Negotiating to Buy “Vast Quantities” of Fusion Power, Which Doesn’t Exist Yet

By Victor Tangermann