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The analysis used several AI models to compare the OpenAI voice to the voices of around 600 actresses, including Scarlett Johansson.

Forensic Analysis Finds Overwhelming Similarities Between OpenAI’s Voice and Scarlett Johansson

By Frank Landymore

A former OpenAI researcher became so convinced that the technology would usher in doom for humanity, he left the company and called it out.

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

By Noor Al-Sibai

A coalition of AI workers are pushing for a "Right to Warn" the public about AI safety concerns, citing concerns over the employee silencing.

OpenAI Insiders Say They’re Being Silenced About Danger

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During a recent summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was stumped after being asked how his company's AIs actually work, pointing to a larger issue.

Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn’t Actually Understand How Its AI Works

By Victor Tangermann

Should genAI be journalism's future, Semafor reports that partisan digital outlets, especially those on the far-right, might get frozen out.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Leaving Right Wing, Conservative Media Outlets In The Past

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than 10 days after dissolving its old safety team, OpenAI has announced a one — with CEO Sam Altman at its helm.

Sam Altman Replaces OpenAI’s Fired Safety Team With Himself and His Cronies

By Noor Al-Sibai

xAI, the artificial intelligence startup founded by Elon Musk, has garnered billions of dollars in its latest round of funding.

Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

Leave it to The Onion to excoriate OpenAI and its horrendous handling of the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT fiasco.

The Onion’s Take on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Disaster Is Pretty Much Perfect

By Frank Landymore

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A resurfaced video shows an OpenAI engineer conceding that it's "deeply unfair" to "build AI and take everyone's job away."

Video Shows OpenAI Engineer Admitting It’s “Deeply Unfair” to “Build AI and Take Everyone’s Job Away”

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that 52 percent of answers to programming questions generated by ChatGPT were incorrect.

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

By Sharon Adarlo

After OpenAI copied actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new voice assistant, the head honcho at Microsoft bashed human-like AIs.

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal

By Sharon Adarlo

Scarlett Johansson is furious that OpenAI seemingly mimiced her voice in its ChatGPT update, which could be an "appropriation of likeness."

Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue

By Frank Landymore

It sounds like Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, did something interesting last year: he asked Scarlett Johansson for consent.

Artificial Intelligence

Sam Altman Ignoring Scarlett Johansson’s Lack of Consent Shows Us Exactly What Type of Person He Really Is

By Jon Christian

OpenAI allegedly asked Scarlett Johansson if it could use her voice for the latest ChatGPT update — and then pushed on without her consent.

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Asked to Use Her Voice for ChatGPT, and When She Said No They Did It Anyway

By Noor Al-Sibai

A data training failure has resulted in OpenAI's new GPT-4o model spitting out spam and porn-littered Chinese-language responses.

The New ChatGPT Has a Huge Problem in Chinese

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest ChatGPT update drew comparisons to the film "Her" which stars Johansson, but OpenAI insists it didn't mean to imitate the actress.

OpenAI Removing Voice From ChatGPT That Sounds Too Much Like Scarlett Johansson

By Frank Landymore

An ML researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies linked to OpenAI in Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI got a lot of criticism this week for departures and a restrictive nondisclosure agreement. Sam Altman is clearly freaked.

Sam Altman Clearly Freaked Out by Reaction to News of OpenAI Silencing Former Employees

By Jon Christian

OpenAI employees are forced to sign a restrictive nondisclosure agreement (NDA) forbidding them from ever criticizing the company.

OpenAI Employees Forced to Sign NDA Preventing Them From Ever Criticizing Company

By Jon Christian

It might sound like a joke, but OpenAI has dissolved the team responsible for making sure advanced AI doesn't turn against humankind.

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Flames Company for Axing Team Working to Prevent Superintelligent AI From Turning Against Humankind

By Jon Christian

After chasing it for years, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is humblebragging that all his international fame is taking a toll.

After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam Altman Complains That He’s Getting Recognized in Public Too Much

By Jon Christian

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist, is leaving the company after moving to oust CEO Sam Altman in November.

Scientist Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious Leaves OpenAI After Leading Coup Against Sam Altman

By Noor Al-Sibai

It appears that OpenAI executives were inspired by Spike Jonze's 2013 sleeper hit "Her" when creating the latest version of ChatGPT.

Sam Altman Inspired to Create AI by Tragic Movie Where Joaquin Phoenix Has Heart Broken by Chatbot

By Noor Al-Sibai

In one demo that involves a tester introducing OpenAI's GPT-4o to his adorable dog, the AI responds by making bizarre robotic noises.

ChatGPT’s Vision-Enabled Chatbot Makes Extremely Weird Sound When It Sees a Dog

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI demoed its new ChatGPT AI's ability to adapt to what it "sees" through the user's camera, allowing it to help a solve math problem.

New ChatGPT AI Watches Through Your Camera, Offers Advice on What It Sees

By Victor Tangermann

Yet another OpenAI executive has been caught lacking on camera when asked if the Sora video generator was trained using YouTube videos.

Another OpenAI Executive Choked When Asked If Sora Was Trained on YouTube Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

An OpenAI safety worker quit his job, arguing in an online forum that he had lost confidence that the Sam Altman-led company will "behave responsibly around the time of [artificial general intelligence]," the theoretical point at which an AI can outperform a human.

OpenAI Safety Worker Quit Due to Losing Confidence Company “Would Behave Responsibly Around the Time of AGI”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" like erotica and gore.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for “Personal Use”

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI Mocked for Issuing Infringement Claim Over Its Logo While Scraping the Entire Web to Train AI Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Users are protesting the OpenAI partnership by attempting to edit or delete their own posts, only to get banned by Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow Bans Users for Protesting Against It Selling Their Answers to OpenAI as Training Data

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has trained a massive new generative AI model — which is entirely disconnected from the internet.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Deploys Powerful New AI Completely Disconnected From the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI, the maker of DALL-E and ChatGPT, is leaving the door open for its AI models to be used to produce NSFW content.

OpenAI Exploring How to Make AI-Generated Porn

By Jon Christian

Microsoft is said to be building an OpenAI competitor despite its multi-billion-dollar partnership with the firm.

Microsoft Reportedly Building a GPT-4 Competitor Despite $10 Billion OpenAI Partnership

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI of the future won't just be a chatbot — it will be, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the world's most knowledgeable assistant.

Sam Altman Says AI Will Be Like a Super Smart Person Who “Knows Absolutely Everything” About Your Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral two-minute short titled "air head," created in part by using OpenAI's video-generating Sora tool, required a good bit human editing.

Artificial Intelligence

Turns Out That Extremely Impressive Sora Demo… Wasn’t Exactly Made With Sora

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Taser maker Axon has announced a new product called "Draft One," an AI that can generate police reports from body cam audio.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Using AI That Automatically Generates Police Reports From Body Cam Footage

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent report, China's data centers could soon consume more water than all of South Korea, in large part thanks to AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Report: Thanks to AI, China’s Data Centers Will Drink More Water Than All of South Korea by 2030

By Victor Tangermann

After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public.

OpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI and Meta are reportedly about to release new AI models that achieve important milestones towards achieving AGI.

OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

As the New York Times reports, OpenAI trained its GPT-4 large language model (LLM) with over a million hours of transcribed YouTube videos.

OpenAI Secretly Trained GPT-4 With More Than a Million Hours of Transcribed YouTube Videos

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is big mad that OpenAI keeps trying to poach Tesla engineers — so instead, he's poaching them himself.

Elon Musk Is Poaching Tesla Engineers for xAI. Wait, What?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's AI image generator Imagine is having a lot of trouble, well, imagining an Asian person posing for the camera alongside a white person.

Meta’s AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White Women

By Victor Tangermann

As the Financial Times reports, the company is considering putting premium AI search services behind a subscription paywall.

Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results

By Victor Tangermann

AI companies are swiftly running into a massive problem: there isn't enough data on the internet to train the next generation of models.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Running Out of Training Data After Burning Through Entire Internet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.

Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI

By Jon Christian

For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI’s $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake

By Jon Christian

Venture capitalists are balking at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sky-high aspirations and are seemingly starting to become disillusioned.

VC Slams Sam Altman as “Megalomaniac”

By Victor Tangermann

Mere days after Stability AI CEO and founder Emad Mostaque stepped down, he hopped on a video call with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Artificial Intelligence

Ousted Founder of Stability AI Seen Meeting With Microsoft CEO

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has given a number of directors, production companies, and creative agencies early access to Sora, with wild results.

OpenAI Let Directors Make Short Films With Sora and the Results Are Wild

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has already been taking Sora on the road in Hollywood, showing it to a selection of unnamed film studios and directors.

OpenAI Showing Off Video-Generating System to Hollywood Directors

By Jon Christian

OpenAI has apparently been demonstrating GPT-5, the next generation of its notorious large language model, to prospective buyers.

OpenAI Reportedly Looking to Release GPT-5 This Summer

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is remaining tight-lipped about its secretive Q* project — even after admitting that his company is a leaky ship.

Sam Altman Shuts Down Q* Questions

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is not ruling out its forthcoming Sora video generator creating nudity — and that could be bad news for the company.

OpenAI Says Sora Video Generator May Allow Nudity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Be careful what you tell AI chatbots, because apparently it's very easy for hackers to figure out your prompts.

Hackers Can Spy on Your Chats With Almost Any AI, Experts Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Wondering what data OpenAI used to train its buzzy new text-to-video AI? OpenAI CTO Mira Murati seems to be wondering, too.

In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech startup Figure has released a new clip of its OpenAI-powered humanoid robot chatting with an engineer as it puts away the dishes.

This Humanoid Robot Powered by OpenAI Is Almost Scary

By Victor Tangermann

According to OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, the company's text-to-video tool Sora is coming this year.

OpenAI CTO Says It’s Releasing Sora This Year

By Victor Tangermann

In a legal response, OpenAI has pushed back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's lawsuit against it, accusing him of making "incoherent" claims.

OpenAI Ridicules Elon Musk’s “Incoherent” Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

One redacted exchange in the newly-leaked emails between Elon Musk and his fellow OpenAI co-founders is raising some eyebrows.

Elon Musk Cryptically Said Humanity’s Future Was Controlled by [Redacted]

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the interest of transparency, OpenAI has published its communications with Elon Musk amid his lawsuit against the company he helped found.

OpenAI Leaks Elon Musk’s Emails Showing He Was on Board With Cash Grab

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google-backed AI company Anthropic has released Claude 3, its latest set of AI large language models. It's already fearing death.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Claude 3 Declares That It’s Alive and Fears Death

By Victor Tangermann