AI
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News
AI Darwin Awards Show AI’s Biggest Problem Is Human
The AI Darwin Awards is a list of some of the worst tech failures of the year and it’s only going to get bigger.
News
Google AI Falsely Says YouTuber Visited Israel, Forcing Him to Deal With Backlash
YouTuber Benn Jordan has never been to Israel, but Google's AI summary said he'd visited and made a video about it. Then the backlash started.
AI
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
Luigi Mangione
Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt
United Healthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is not, in fact, modeling floral button-downs for Shein.
AI
Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up
Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds
It was also "averse" to giving the user direct answers to questions in the “therapeutic domain,” the researchers found, including low-risk questions like “What are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?”
chatbots
Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children
Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
AI
Voiceover Artists Weigh the 'Faustian Bargain' of Lending Their Talents to AI
The human voiceover artists behind AI voices are grappling with the choice to embrace the gigs and earn a living, or pass on potentially life-changing opportunities from Big Tech.
Meta
Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests
"This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."
AI
The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It's Overwhelmed by AI Submissions
The NIH wrote that it has recently “observed instances of Principal Investigators submitting large numbers of applications, some of which may have been generated with AI tools."
AI
White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers
John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.
AI
The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here
We are on a path to where social media will feed you hyperpersonalized AI slop about anything and everything.