Image by Getty / Futurism As most of us in the United States are well aware, the US healthcare system is a nightmarish labyrinth of profit-seeking middlemen, kafkaesque corporate bureaucracy, and insurance-inflated costs. Adding to the noxious mix is the lucrative field of private equity — a financial industry that earns its dough by buying… Continue reading “McDonald’s for Teeth”: Private Equity is Destroying Our Teeth, Dental Professionals Warn
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Things Are Looking Really, Really Bad for Tesla
Elon Musk’s carmaker Tesla is widely expected to disappoint with its Q2 earnings report later today. Demand for the company’s EVs has dried up significantly over the past 18 months, driven in large part by its exceptionally divisive CEO’s efforts to alienate buyers at the exact moment that the company is facing a flood of… Continue reading Things Are Looking Really, Really Bad for Tesla
Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes
For months, we and our colleagues elsewhere in the tech media have been reporting on what experts are now calling “ChatGPT psychosis“: when AI users fall down alarming mental health rabbit holes in which a chatbot encourages wild delusions about conspiracies, mystical entities, or crackpot new scientific theories. The resulting breakdowns have led users to… Continue reading Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes
Politico’s Owner Is Embarrassing Its Journalists With Garbled AI Slop
Axel Springer, the German parent company of Politico and the largest publisher in Europe, is trying to force some horrendous AI slop onto the political news publication. And its writers aren’t happy. This month, a union representing journalists at Politico and its sister site E&E News, the PEN Guild, took the site’s leadership to arbitration,… Continue reading Politico’s Owner Is Embarrassing Its Journalists With Garbled AI Slop
Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk’s AI Startup
Earlier this year, more than 200 staffers at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI were asked to have their faces recorded while speaking to their coworkers. According to internal documents and Slack messages obtained by Business Insider, some employees were taken aback after being asked to take part in a project called “Skippy,” the goal of… Continue reading Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk’s AI Startup
Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators
In the so-called “constitution” for its chatbot Claude, AI company Anthropic claims that it’s committed to principles based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, instructing its chatbot to prioritize freedom, equality, freedom of thought, and adequate standards of living in its responses. Anthropic has long attempted to distinguish itself as putting safety first. The… Continue reading Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators
Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime
Police in Florida are eating crow after it emerged that they arrested a random man in August of 2024, based on a lead generated by facial recognition software, and charged him with a horrifying crime of which he was entirely innocent. Robert Dillon of Lee County, Florida was shocked when officers hauled him out of his… Continue reading Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime
AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible
A tech entrepreneur named Jason Lemkin set out to document his experience using an AI “vibe coding” tool called Replit to make an app. But the “vibes” turned bad real quick. The AI wiped out a key company database, he claims — and when called out on its mistake, it insisted, sorrowfully, that it couldn’t… Continue reading AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible
Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion
For years now, certain experts have warned that the AI industry is a massive bubble waiting to burst. The enormous hype driving a market frenzy, they say, could lead to a collapse if it’s exposed to be built on widespread overpromising. Most recently, Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok warned that the current AI… Continue reading Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion
You Will Die Inside When You Learn Who Elon Musk’s Thirst Trap for Women Is Based on
Last week, billionaire Elon Musk revealed his AI startup xAI’s “companions”: a hypersexualized goth anime girl dubbed Ani, and an extremely vulgar red panda named Bad Rudi. The companions were clearly designed to spark controversy, with Ani happily undressing herself to xAI’s likely male-dominated audience of Elon bros. And if all that wasn’t cringe enough,… Continue reading You Will Die Inside When You Learn Who Elon Musk’s Thirst Trap for Women Is Based on