machine learning
Generative AI Is a Disaster, and Companies Don’t Seem to Really Care
In their push for AI-generated content, tech companies are dancing on the edge between fucking around and finding out.
AI-Generated 'Subliminal Messages' Are Going Viral. Here's What's Really Going On
They're not going make you subconsciously crave McDonald's, but they are pretty cool as optical illusions.
Your Friends Will Hate You If You Use AI to Write Texts, Science Confirms
A new study says what should be obvious: people lose faith in relationships when their friends take shortcuts, AI-assisted or otherwise.
Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money
The collections industry is pushing GPT-4 as a dystopian new way to make borrowers pay up, replicating the debt system’s long history of racial bias.
AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.
ChatGPT Is Pretty Bad At Poetry, According To Poets
Poets say rumors of their obsolescence at the hands of AI has been greatly exaggerated.
Every Day is April Fool’s Day Now
Deepfakes, Puffy Popes, AI-generated Trump arrest photos, articles written by GPT-4: We're living in a world where fear of being fooled is constant.
For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything
Tech charlatans and U.S. Senators are now spreading misinformation about predictive AI tools, which are not sentient.
GPT-4 Hired Unwitting TaskRabbit Worker By Pretending to Be 'Vision-Impaired' Human
The test was part of a series of experiments to see if OpenAI's latest GPT model could perform "power-seeking" behavior.
People Used Facebook's Leaked AI to Create a 'Based' Chatbot that Says the N-Word
After 4chan published LLaMa online, others have taken the language model and created a functioning chat bot in Discord, which claimed that the n-word can refer to people who don't have good intentions.
Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online
The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society.
AI Use by Cops, Child Services In NYC Is a Mess: Report
"NYC does not have an effective AI governance framework," a new report concluded.