Google Gemini, the creator of the racially diverse Nazis, is back
Six months after unceremoniously shelving it , Google has brought back the AI image technology responsible for such hits as the Black founding fathers and racially diverse Nazis . Google announced tod...
Procreate is the latest company to declare themselves anti-AI
James Cuda, the CEO of popular iPad design app Procreate, has disavowed the use of AI, a countervailing take in an industry that seems to be shoehorning AI into everything. “I really fucking hate gene...
GenAI deepfakes are raiding older folks’ wallets
In February, when OpenAI launched Sora, its text-to-video generative AI model, I tweeted, “boomer Facebook groups are about to get hit with the craziest political deepfakes of all time.” Boomer Facebo...
uRobot: How are Americans feeling about the impact of AI?
AI'll be fine Whether it’s art, music, code, photos or text, hardly a day goes by without a new piece of AI technology making the news, leaving us all to wonder what the world will look like in 5, 10...
Deepfakes: How long until one causes real damage?
After emerging from obscurity back in 2018, deepfakes — which use machine learning and AI to create hyper-realistic fake images and videos of people — are once again capturing people's attention. The ...
AI trained on AI trained on AI is as bad as you think
A new study published in Nature provides fresh evidence of a serious problem that AI researchers have been warning about: ”model collapse.” According to this study, when an AI model is trained on AI g...
Bad AI bot Grok is not good
Turns out xAI’s “anti-woke,” “politically incorrect,” “ rebellious ” AI bot is not very good. After the Trump assassination attempt, Grok, which is supposed to write headlines and summaries based on p...
Tech companies are changing their terms of service to include AI training
Tech companies including Google, Meta, and X have been quietly (and sometimes with as little as eight words) changing the terms of service you never read to say they train their AI models on your publ...
WSJ: It took 3 minutes for Instagram to show 13-year-olds adult-sex content
We all know that it’s possible to get to some very dark parts of Instagram . The Wall Street Journal and an academic researcher found that it also happens within minutes for young teens. Using new acc...
Google image search has a problem with celeb results filled with AI
Google’s AI search problems just keep coming. 404 Media found that searches for celebrities were turning up AI-generated images of those celebrities, without disclosing the pics were AI. Clicking on t...
Microsoft stalls release of Windows AI tool, Recall
After privacy experts and consumers let out a collective “ew” after Microsoft’s AI Windows demo last month, the company is delaying the rollout of Recall. The new feature creates a record of everythin...
Google says it’s OK to roll out AI products with mistakes
After Google rolled out AI Overview search results last month, users were quick to find mistakes. Lots of them . Google ended up making a number of changes to the feature and doesn’t show as many AI O...
OpenAI says influence campaigns using OpenAI are not effective
OpenAI just released a report about how its generative AI tools have been used in five “covert influence operations,” which it describes as attempts to “manipulate public opinion or influence politica...
Blockchain's newest use case is defeating AI deepfakes
At the 10th annual Consensus crypto conference in Austin, Texas, a group of media execs and technologists explained how blockchain technology is well suited to combat what they see as an incoming wave...
OpenAI forms oversight committee with Sam Altman, the guy who needs oversight
From leadership departures to brutal NDAs to apparent celebrity plagiarism to being unable to say how its tech actually works, lately it seems like OpenAI can’t stop screwing up . So naturally, it’s t...
Google’s AI Overviews are insane, recommending eating rocks and running with scissors
Earlier this month Google began rolling out its AI Overview feature to the masses — and it’s going poorly. Google, in some instances, has been using generative AI to answer questions at the top of peo...
Google AI search is telling users to put glue on pizza because it’s trained on Reddit posts
Alphabet’s Google pays Reddit $60 million a year to train its AI on posts on Reddit, and it looks like Google’s AI is now pulling directly from the dregs of the internet. Google’s AI overview for “che...
OpenAI reportedly hired the actress who is not Scarlett Johansson to voice “Sky” months before contacting Scarlett Johansson
OpenAI hired an voice actress with a uncannily similar sound to Scarlett Johansson in “Her” months before CEO Sam Altman contacted Johansson, The Washington Post reported, citing documents, recordings...
Scarlett Johansson, YouTube evasion, CEO chaos: A running list of OpenAI gaffes
OpenAI can’t stop tripping over its own feet. Instead of enjoying its first-mover position in the surging AI industry, the ChatGPT maker’s leadership keeps making unforced errors that threaten to disr...
OpenAI says the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT voice is a different professional actress
OpenAI says its Scarlett Johansson-sounding Sky voice is actually a “different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice” but it won’t say who to “protect their privacy.” It also said ...