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An AI-powered "bespoke smoothie shop" called BetterBlends marketed itself as "the most personalized restaurant, ever." It lasted three weeks.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Smoothie Shop Goes Out of Business Almost Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

German camera maker Leica has just unveiled its latest M11-P camera that comes equipped with tech to prove it wasn't AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

This Anti-AI Camera Fights Deepfakes by Certifying Each Picture It Takes

By Frank Landymore

Apple executives gave John Stewart an ultimatum: cede creative control, give up those issues, or "The Problem" gets cancelled.

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Apple Reportedly Ditched Jon Stewart Because They Didn’t Like His Thoughts About AI

By Frank Landymore

Universal Music Group and several other record labels have accused Anthropic of stealing their lyrics to train its chatbot Claude 2.

Music Industry Sues Anthropic for Alleged Theft of Lyrics

By Frank Landymore

Yann Lecun, one of three "godfathers" of AI and Meta's chief AI scientist, thinks that our AI doomsaying is "preposterous."

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Godfather of AI Tells Us to Stop Freaking Out Over Its “Existential Risk” To Humanity

By Frank Landymore

One of the biggest names behind an author-led lawsuit against OpenAI, John Grisham has seemingly run out of patience with AI companies.

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John Grisham Unloads on Big Tech Using His Books to Train AI

By Frank Landymore

An analyst from a tech advisory firm said that generative AI is slated for a slowdown next year due to increasing costs.

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Generative AI Is Headed for a Financial “Cold Shower” Next Year, Analyst Predicts

By Sharon Adarlo

To fix their terribly writing AI, companies are now resorting to hiring poets and writers with humanity degrees.

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AI Companies Desperately Hiring Authors and Poets to Fix Their Crappy Writing

By Victor Tangermann

When it comes to voicing his concerns over AI, English actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry isn't mincing words.

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Actor Stephen Fry Furious After AI Rips Off His Voice Without Permission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Senators gathered the nation's tech industry titans to hear out on what the government should do about AI — silently, it turns out.

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Tech Bros Lectured Congress About AI “Like Schoolchildren” Who Weren’t Allowed to Raise Hands

By Frank Landymore

Top prosecutors from all 54 US states and territories are urging Congress to take action against AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

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Every Single State’s Attorney General Is Calling for Action on AI-Generated Child Abuse Materials

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

DABUS is fully autonomous, argues its creator Stepher Thaler, and anything that it creates should be patentable. The courts don't agree.

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Inventor Claims His AI Is Sentient, Fights to Copyright Its Creations

By Frank Landymore

Chances are, if a company is developing AI systems, then it probably depends on pricey hardware from Nvidia.

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If AI Is a Gold Rush, Nvidia Is Selling Shovels

By Frank Landymore

A book claiming to document the events of the Maui wildfires was published on Amazon just days after the deadly disaster had begun.

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Seemingly AI-Written Book on Maui Wildfire Becomes Amazon Bestseller, Gets Taken Down

By Frank Landymore

A now-removed travel article published by Microsoft inexplicably recommended The Ottawa Food Bank as a "cannot miss!" tourist attraction.

Microsoft Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Travel Guide That Recommended Visiting Food Bank With an “Empty Stomach”

By Frank Landymore

Educators are struggling to respond to widespread cheating with ChatGPT. Some instances of cheating, though, are easier to spot than others.

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Idiot Students Are Submitting Answers Saying “I Am an AI Language Model”

By Frank Landymore

From fundraising more than $100 million to hemorrhaging top talent the firm that makes Stable Diffusion has had a heck of a year.

Artificial Intelligence

The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google and Universal Music Reportedly Want to Monetize Deepfaked AI Songs

By Frank Landymore

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Revenge of the Writers: AI Fiction Analysis Site Toppled by Revolt

By Frank Landymore

An app called Remini claims to use generative AI to show users what their future kids might look like. Security experts wonder if it's safe.

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App Claims to Use AI to Show What Your Children Would Look Like

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Disney and NBC are both watching a proposed New York law that would bar them from lucrative state tax breaks if they use AI to replace humans.

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Disney Furious at Law That Would Cut Tax Breaks If It Replaced Actors With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company used an astronomical 5.6 billion gallons of water last year.

Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI

By Victor Tangermann

Annoyed users of the World of Warcraft Reddit decided to trick an AI-written website scraping their content into writing about "Glorbo."

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Redditors Invented a Fake Word and an AI Site Published an Article Thinking It Was Real

By Frank Landymore

Apple is secretly developing a generative AI framework called "Ajax," along with an internally used AI-powered chatbot similar to ChatGPT.

Apple Is Secretly Building Its Rival to ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

Entertainment workers' anti-AI campaign can apparently count "Mission: Impossible" star Tom Cruise among its advocates.

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Tom Cruise Secretly Warned Movie Studios About AI Use

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage

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Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage

By Frank Landymore

AI-powered content farms are cropping up at an alarming rate. According to a NewsGuard report, their ad-forward business model is working.

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People Are Spinning Up Low-Effort Content Farms Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Recording Academy's CEO says that songs featuring AI contributions can be submitted for a Grammy, but only human creators can win.

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Rejoice, Drake! AI Barred From Winning a Grammy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts warned that AI's autonomy is just a "veneer," and that it surveils you through the scraped data it needs to train on.

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AI Isn’t Magic, It’s Being Used to Spy on You, Experts Warn

By Frank Landymore

Marvel Used AI to Generate the Intro Sequence to Its New Show, Angering Fans

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Marvel Used AI to Generate the Intro Sequence to Its New Show, Angering Fans

By Frank Landymore

GitHub found that 92 percent of the 500 US-based developers they surveyed said that they integrate AI tools into their workflow.

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GitHub Says 92 Percent of Programmers Are Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Gamurs, which owns gaming sites like Destructoid and Dot Esports, is looking for an AI editor to output up to 250 articles per week.

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Owner of Gaming Sites Fires Writers, Hires for “AI Editor” to Churn Out Hundreds of Articles Per Week

By Frank Landymore

AI-generated content might be transforming the internet into an error-ridden, incomprehensible garbage heap, but at least it's funny.

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This Clickbait Site Is Even Generating Images Using AI and the Results Are Unintentionally Hilarious

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Ron DeSantis campaign released a video featuring what appears to be AI-generated imagery of Donald Trump kissing Anthony Fauci.

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Ron DeSantis Ad Features AI-Generated Images of Donald Trump Kissing Fauci

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone shared an AI-generated "podcast" featuring a conversation between Bill Gates and Socrates to Twitter. Twitter, uh, had some thoughts.

Artificial Intelligence

Mockery Abounds at AI-Generated Interview Between Bill Gates and Socrates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This AI-powered captcha tool wants you to know what a "yoko" is. That's a problem, because the object doesn't actually exist.

Artificial Intelligence

Captcha AI Asks Users to Identify Bizarre Imaginary Object

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's called Hotshot, and from what we can tell, it's basically Bitmoji — but if Bitmoji was a hyperrealistic, AI-powered fever dream.

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New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When asked how he feels about AI, Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior didn't hold back, expressing a mix of fascination and concern.

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Snoop Dogg Expresses Views on AI Threat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Legislation seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements has already been introduced in Congress.

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Congresswoman Proposes Bill Targeting AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.

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This AI-Generated Beer Commercial Is a Hallucinogenic Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Joe Russo, a director who's helmed some of Marvel's biggest movies, thinks it's only a matter of time before AIs can make legit films.

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Marvel Director Expects Fully AI-Generated Movies Within Two Years

By Frank Landymore

A published YA author recommended up and comers use ChatGPT to critique your writing. We're here to tell you that this is a bad, bad idea.

Your Brain Will Melt When You Hear How This Author Is Using ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

Universal Music Group is pissed about AI, and it's already taken down a viral voice clone of "Drake" and "the Weeknd." This is likely only the beginning.

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Drake’s Label Is Still Absolutely Furious About That AI-Generated Song

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers let 25 artificial intelligence-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than one might expect.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Let 25 AI Bots Loose Inside a Virtual Town. The Results Were Fascinating.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Cornell University created an AI that is a lot more transparent about the medical literature it cites, earning praise from doctors using it.

New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

By Frank Landymore

Not only does generative AI threaten originality in art, as some argue, it undeniably makes who gets the credit for intellectual property a lot murkier.

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Hollywood Panicking Over the Rise of Generative AI

By Frank Landymore

The US Federal Trade Commission published a consumer alert warning the public of voice cloning scams, which seem to be on the rise.

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FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money

By Frank Landymore

Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR technology and a vocal critic of Silicon Valley, sat down in an interview with The Guardian to air out his musings on AI.

Virtual Reality

VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane

By Frank Landymore

The triple-A video game developer has unveiled its new "Ghostwriter" tool, which in theory will save writers the extra effort of writing a zillion "barks."

Artificial Intelligence

Ubisoft Develops Tool to Crank Out Video Game Dialogue Using AI

By Frank Landymore

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

By Frank Landymore

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?

Artificial Intelligence

CNET Says It’s a Total Coincidence It’s Laying Off Humans After Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

A ResumeBuilder.com survey found that around a quarter of business leaders have replaced their workers with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI

By Frank Landymore

Spotify just announced that it will soon be leveraging OpenAI-made artificial intelligence users with an "AI DJ in your pocket."

Spotify Launching OpenAI-Powered “DJ” That Talks About Songs Between Tracks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet "2dumb2destroy," a chatbot that is, refreshingly, too stupid to do humanity any harm beyond telling a bad joke or two.

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New AI Chatbot Deliberately Trained to Be as Stupid as Possible

By Frank Landymore

The U.S. bank is playing it safe in the name of "compliance concerns" to ensure that ChatGPT doesn't inadvertently meddle with its sensitive work.

Giant Bank JP Morgan Bans ChatGPT Use Among Employees

By Frank Landymore

Joseph Cox at Vice fed his voice into an Eleven Labs AI voice cloning tool, which he used to successfully bypass voice biometrics over the phone.

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Journalist Clones His Voice and Uses It to Break Into His Own Bank Account

By Frank Landymore

Just weeks after pressing pause on publishing AI-generated content, CNET owner Red Ventures appears poised to greenlight its AI program once again.

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CNET’s Owner Preparing to Restart Publishing AI-Generated Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new "Custom Voice Creator", as part of Samsung's Bixby mobile assistant, will have your cloned AI voice say whatever whatever you type in.

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Samsung Now Cloning Users’ Voices So an AI Can Answer Calls For Them

By Frank Landymore

People have started using AI-powered apps to clone the voice of president Joe Biden and have him spout off some hilariously out-of-character rants.

Artificial Intelligence

Ridiculous Voice Cloned Joe Biden Speeches Are Going Viral

By Frank Landymore

Vanderbilt University staffers sent out the ChatGPT generated email to students on Thursday, which didn't go unnoticed by students at the college newspaper.

University Apologizes for Sending Email About Mass Shooting Written With ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

It promised that AI wouldn't be taking the place of human journalists. Arena Group went ahead and laid off over a dozen employees from its magazine anyway.

Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Lays Off Journalists After Announcing Pivot to AI Content

By Frank Landymore

Keanu Reeves, Neo, the One... Johnny Mnemonic? He goes by many names. And he's now opened up on his worries about AI being used to replace us feeble humans.

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Keanu Reeves Worried AI Could Soon Replace the Journalists Who Interview Him

By Frank Landymore

More voice acting contracts are embedding sneaky clauses that would allow a client to synthesize their voice with AI, often without extra compensation.

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Voice Actors Enraged By Companies Stealing Their Voices With AI

By Frank Landymore