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Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke"
Wokebot 5000 The woke mind virus appears to be coming from inside the house. Multi-hyphenate entrepreneur Elon Musk had promised — in line with his overall slide toward the reactionary right — that his...
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Turns on Its Creator, Completely Trashes Elon
Frankenstein's Monster Elon Musk's right-leaning fanboys are already in a huff because the billionaire's new AI, Grok, has been paying lip service to progressive causes like transgender rights and...
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Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT
Soft Launch Elon Musk's Grok AI was already having a rough launch, with the bot trashing Musk and cosigning a bunch of progressive political causes that are anathema to the increasingly regressive...
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Pennsylvania Politician Using Talking AI Chatbot to Call Thousands of Voters
Political Dystopia Though this era of artificial intelligence is in its nascent stages, it already sometimes feels like we're living in a Philip K. Dick tech dystopia, from bots that pretend to love...
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Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble
Renowned journalist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow is convinced that the AI is doomed to drop off a cliff. "Of course AI is a bubble," he wrote in a recent piece for sci-fi magazine Locus....
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Researchers Gave Homeless People $750 Per Month and the Results Were Incredible
The idea of giving homeless people money, no questions asked, is a perennially controversial topic. The common argument against handing cash to the unhoused is that they'll spend most of it on drugs,...
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Rite Aid's Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft
Face Off When companies and organizations use facial recognition technology for surveillance or security, the results are inaccurate enough that they often lead to disastrous outcomes. The latest case...
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Scientists Say This Is the Probability AI Will Drive Humans Extinct
Extremely Bad Outcome According to a new survey that took into account the input from 2,778 researchers, there's a not insignificant risk of artificial intelligence triggering human extinction. Just...
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Robotics Expert Says AI Hype Is Due for a Brutal Reality Check
Winter Is Coming Famed roboticist Rodney Brooks, who co-founded the company iRobot — which invented the Roomba — has been keeping score on the AI industry. And from where he's standing, the near future...
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University Enrolling AI-Powered "Students" Who Will Turn in Assignments,...
Model Student Students at Ferris State University in Michigan will soon be sharing the classroom with AI-powered freshman "students" who will enroll in classes alongside them, MLive reports. And no,...
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Former OpenAI Exec Predicts AI Could Be Last Thing Humans Ever Invent
Preacher Man One of OpenAI's earliest acolytes seems to think artificial intelligence is a gift from on high — and it sounds, depending on your point of view, either optimistic or disturbing. In an...
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OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon
AI Warfare After being caught quietly removing mentions of a ban on "military and warfare" from its usage policies page, OpenAI is working with the Pentagon. As Bloomberg reports, the company confirmed...
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Grand Theft Auto Voice Actor Furious at AI That Copied His Voice
Voice Over While some voice actors have decried a recent deal that SAG-AFTRA struck with an AI voiceover studio, one voice actor is already dealing with fallout from AI tech after another company used...
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Group Linked to Sam Altman Launches AI to Defeat Joe Biden
A super PAC with deep ties to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched an AI chatbot this week in a bid to deny President Joe Biden from winning a second term in office, The Washington Post reports. The group,...
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Oops! Replacing Workers With AI Is Actually More Expensive, MIT Finds
A team of MIT researchers has found that in many instances, replacing human workers with AI is still more expensive than sticking with the people, a conclusion that flies in the face of current fears...
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Scandal as AI-Generated Audio of Politician Slamming Colleague Goes Viral
Fake News A mini scandal has erupted in the bareknuckle world of New York City politics after AI-generated audio went viral this weekend because it deep faked the voice of a politician slamming another...
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Man Says Sunglass Hut Used Facial Recognition to Falsely Jail Him, Where He...
False Positive A 61-year-old man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest for a robbery in Houston, Texas, The Guardian reports. Harvey Eugene...
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Experts Warn North Korea Is Using AI Nefarious Purposes
AI Wargames Researchers say that North Korean scientists are using AI for surveillance and wargaming purposes. In a study, first reported on by Reuters, Hyuk Kim of the James Martin Center for...
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Guy Buys The Hairpin's Domain, Proudly Turns It Into AI-Powered Zombie...
AI Sludge The Hairpin was a beloved women's and culture website that gave rise to brand name writers like Jia Tolentino and Jazmine Hughes until it shut down in 2018. But now it churns out nonsensical...
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Microsoft Engineer Says He Was Silenced for Warning About DALL-E Issue Linked...
Insider Silenced Things are heating up for Microsoft. First, one of the company's AI programs was blamed for the deepfake pornographic images of Taylor Swift flooding social media, which were so bad...
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