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According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before releasing an AI Alexa.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve

By Victor Tangermann

Apple engineers flagged major flaws with the "reasoning" abilities of top AI models: that it's mostly a front.

Artificial Intelligence

Before Apple’s AI Went Haywire and Started Making Up Fake News, Its Engineers Warned of Deep Flaws With the Tech

By Frank Landymore

Apple has temporarily halted its disastrous "Apple Intelligence" feature which consistently bungled up summaries of breaking news alerts.

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Apple Halts Disastrous AI System That Was Making Up Fake News Stories and Pushing Them to iPhone Users

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post has a new mission statement: "Riveting Storytelling for All of America," a slogan that sparked mockery.

Artificial Intelligence

Embattled Washington Post Secretly Planning Transformation to “AI-Fueled Platform for News”

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

By Frank Landymore

A dad and "AI evangelist" couldn't understand why his daughter didn't like the AI function of a toy he bought for her.

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Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy

By Frank Landymore

Newly unredacted court documents allege that Facebook knowingly used pirated books from the database LibGen to train its AI models.

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Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors

By Frank Landymore

An investment banker who once dug into Enron's finances says it bears "intriguing" parallels with the tech industry's biggest darling: OpenAI.

Former Enron Banker Points Out “Intriguing” Parallels With OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

The iconic Hollywood sign adorning the hills behind West Hollywood has quickly become a particularly popular inspiration for AI slop.

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People Think the Hollywood Sign Is on Fire Because of AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Kissing Without Their Consent

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Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Kissing Without Their Consent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which users say gave them offensive messages.

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Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities

By Frank Landymore

Amazon's Prime streaming service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film "Nosferatu" with an appalling, seemingly AI-generated poster.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”

By Victor Tangermann

A trick as simple as deliberately incorporating typos into your prompt is often enough to dupe the industry's leading AI chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots

By Frank Landymore

A charter school in Arizona promises to teach kids twice as fast using a specialized AI model rather than a traditional teacher.

Artificial Intelligence

A New School Will Teach Children Using AI Instead of Human Teachers

By Frank Landymore

New research shows that the industry's leading AI chatbots are performing poorly on tests designed to detect signs of dementia.

Artificial Intelligence

Aging AI Chatbots Show Signs of Cognitive Decline in Dementia Test

By Frank Landymore

Several AI-generated diss tracks, featuring an imitation of Lil Wayne's iconic vocal style, are circulating online and causing confusion.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Lil Wayne Diss Track Against Kendrick Lamar Causes Chaos Online

By Victor Tangermann

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker's feature-packed stab at AI integration into its devices, appears to be a total dud with buyers

Artificial Intelligence

iPhone Owners Extremely Unimpressed With Apple Intelligence AI

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft's AI powered "Recall" feature is still screenshotting sensitive personal information even though it's not supposed to.

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Microsoft’s AI “Recall” Feature Caught Screenshotting Your Social Security Number

By Frank Landymore

Skechers Refuses to Comment on Ad With Signs of Lazy AI

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Skechers Refuses to Comment on Ad With Signs of Lazy AI

By Victor Tangermann

An AI startup called Artisan has incited outrage over its "Stop Hiring Humans" ad campaign in San Francisco.

Artificial Intelligence

Humans Alarmed at AI Company’s “Stop Hiring Humans” Billboards

By Frank Landymore

Apple's Apple Intelligence AI feature incorrectly summarized a report from BBC News by making it sound like Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple AI Tells Users Luigi Mangione Has Shot Himself

By Frank Landymore

Embattled media company BuzzFeed is selling off First We Feast, the company behind the extremely popular interview show called "Hot Ones."

Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Sells “Hot Ones” as It Pivots to AI-Generated Content

By Victor Tangermann

UCLA says it is offering a new comparative literature course that will make heavy use of AI materials, included an AI-generated textbook.

Artificial Intelligence

UCLA’s AI-Based Literature Class Ridiculed for Incomprehensible AI-Generated Textbook

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI Concerned About Illegal Activity on Sora, Releases It Anyway

OpenAI Concerned About Illegal Activity on Sora, Releases It Anyway

By Frank Landymore

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

OpenAI's AI model o1 lied, schemed, and even attempted to duplicate itself to avoid being shut down or replaced, according to red team tests.

In Tests, OpenAI’s New Model Lied and Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down

By Frank Landymore

The performance of a key stock index mirrors how it performed before the Dot-com recession, suggesting that the AI industry is a bubble.

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Alarms Blaring That AI Bubble Could Collapse

By Frank Landymore

New research indicates that parents are totally clueless that teens mainly use AI for therapeutic needs and emotional support.

Artificial Intelligence

Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI confirmed that it's mass-deleting chatbots that violate copyright law. Users are not pleased.

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Character.AI Confirms Mass Deletion of Fandom Characters, Says They’re Not Coming Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A online blind test with 11,000 participants found that people often incorrectly identified art as being either human or AI made.

Artificial Intelligence

Even People Who Hate AI Art Appear to Actually Prefer AI Art in a Blind Test

By Frank Landymore

Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

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Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

By Frank Landymore

Kesha has landed in hot water with fans after posting an AI-generated image, which misspells the word "delusional" several times.

Internet Notices Something Bizarre in Image Posted by Kesha

By Victor Tangermann

Coca-Cola drew plenty of criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday ad. Redditors made a much better version.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found that readers tend to prefer AI-generated poems over human-written ones, including the works of Shakespeare.

Artificial Intelligence

Judging Them Blind, Humans Appear to Prefer AI-Generated Poems

By Victor Tangermann

Hairstylists say they're seeing more and more customers come in with AI-generated photos as their haircut inspirations.

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Barbers Alarmed When Customers Start Asking for AI-Generated Haircuts

By Frank Landymore

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

Coke is cashing in on your nostalgia by remaking one of its best-known commercials with all new tech: generative AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Coke’s AI Commercial for the Holidays Has Us Wondering If We Live In a Fallen World

By Frank Landymore

The AI-generated summaries appear as a "Key Points" box above the main body of articles on The Wall Street Journal.

Artificial Intelligence

The Wall Street Journal Is Testing AI-Generated Summaries of Its Articles

By Frank Landymore

AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that recent signs that AI improvements are stagnating could signal a crash in the industry in the future.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump has promised to overturn Joe Biden's executive order on AI, stripping federal guardrails on the development of the tech.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Planning to Unleash Artificial Intelligence by Repealing Restrictions

By Frank Landymore

Off Radio Krakow fired its human hosts and replaced with with three AI-generated presenters, launching a storm of backlash.

Artificial Intelligence

Radio Station’s Attempt to Replace Hosts With AI Ends in Absolute Disaster

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT Messes Up Badly During Demo With CEO of Chanel

By Frank Landymore

Thousands in Dublin showed up for a nonexistent Halloween parade that turned out to be the creation of a fake ad campaign made with AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Thousands Tricked By AI Ad to Show Up For Fake Halloween Parade

By Frank Landymore

Linux creator Linus Torvalds dismissed the AI industry as "90 percent marketing" and bemoaned its "hype cycle."

Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Linux Trashes AI Hype

By Frank Landymore

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Model Used By Hospitals Caught Making Up Details About Patients, Inventing Nonexistent Medications and Sexual Acts

By Frank Landymore

Criminals claimed to be a property owner and used AI to trick a title company into buying the land they were trying to sell.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Figure Out Trick to Steal Houses Using AI

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is releasing AI agents that can work on your behalf or assist in your workflow, which some companies are already using.

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Microsoft Debuting AI-Powered Employees for Companies

By Frank Landymore

The latest update to Anthropic's Claude model turns it into a full-blown "AI agent" that can use anything installed on your computer.

Anthropic Now Lets Claude Take Control of Your Entire Computer

By Frank Landymore

Nicolas Cage, who once said he was "terrified" of AI, tells young actors not to let studios manipulate their performances with the tech.

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Nicolas Cage Warns Young Actors About AI

By Frank Landymore

Blumhouse Productions has chosen a group of filmmakers to experiment with Meta's AI video generation tool, Movie Gen.

Horror Studio Blumhouse Partners With Meta to Use Its AI Video Generator

By Frank Landymore

Cognitive scientist and prominent AI researcher Gary Marcus believes that OpenAI will pivot into the surveillance business.

AI Researcher Slams OpenAI, Warns It Will Become the “Most Orwellian Company of All Time”

By Frank Landymore

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

Meta has just announced Movie Gen, its new AI-powered video generation tool, and to show it off, it's flaunting an AI-generated baby hippo.

Meta’s AI Bootleg Moo Deng Is an Insult to Pygmy Hippos Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

The artists whose AI-generated image won a fine arts competition is still mad that the US Copyright Office won't recognize his work.

Artificial Intelligence

Self-Styled “AI Artist” Furious That People Are “Blatantly Stealing My Work”

By Frank Landymore

Thousands of doctors are sending AI-generated messages to patients, despite the possibility of the AI introducing dangerous errors.

Medical AI Caught Telling Dangerous Lie About Patient’s Medical Record

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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

Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, the man behind iconic films such as "The Terminator," is ready to jump on the AI bandwagon.

Artificial Intelligence

James Cameron, Who Warned of Skynet, Joins Board of AI Company

By Victor Tangermann

The head of stock research at Goldman Sachs, Jim Covello, believes that the burgeoning AI industry could be in for a rude awakening.

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Top Goldman Sachs Stock Researcher Warns AI Bubble May Be About to Explode

By Victor Tangermann

A slew of companies are now offering AI assistants to restaurants that will handle reservations and other inquiries over the phone.

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Restaurants Are Hiring AI to Pick Up the Phone When You Call

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI Staff Upset by Company’s Horrendous New Logo

By Frank Landymore

Along with coal, the natural gas industry is now stepping up to meet the ludicrous energy demands imposed by AI.

The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore