Ads for sleazy AI services that allow users to generate realistic synthetic video clips of real people kissing are flooding social media — the latest trend in the rise of easy-to-use generative AI tools blurring the lines of consent. Some of these many services advertise a tamer vision for their product, for example suggesting that… Continue reading Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Making Out, Without Their Consent
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Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds
It’s costing tenants billions of dollars every year. Landlord LiAIson It turns out that many of the country’s landlords are using the same artificial intelligence tool to jack up your rent. Packaged as part of the popular property management software RealPage, the AI is nominally intended to give rent price recommendations to landlords. But as… Continue reading Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds
Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT to Plan His Attack
A weird new development. TerrorGPT Las Vegas police officials have revealed that active duty Green Beret soldier Matthew Livelsberger, who fatally shot himself and blew up a rented Tesla Cybertruck just outside the Trump Towers hotel in Las Vegas last week, used generative AI — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT — to plan his attack. As the… Continue reading Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT to Plan His Attack
Death Row Prisoner Requests to Be Executed as Soon as Possible
An unusual request. Death Wish An Arizona man who’s been on death row for nearly two decades has an unusual request for the state’s highest court: to, essentially, get it over with already. Generally speaking, attorneys for death row inmates try to delay their executions as long as possible. But as the Associated Press reports, 53-year-old Aaron… Continue reading Death Row Prisoner Requests to Be Executed as Soon as Possible
Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities
Yikes. Page Burner The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which some users say gave them offensive messages about race and gender, Wired reports. These days, every app imaginable is deploying its own take on the wildly popular Spotify Wrapped feature by providing personalized end-of-year recaps for users’… Continue reading Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities
New Orleans Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, FBI Says
The footage is bone-chilling. FPV Terrorism The FBI has released extensive first-person footage recorded by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man who drove a rented pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people. Some of the footage was recorded on a pair of Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses, catapulting the gadget… Continue reading New Orleans Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, FBI Says
Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”
In an astonishing feat of laziness, Amazon Prime Video service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film “Nosferatu” with a slapdash poster that was obviously generated using AI. The poster — first discovered by eagle-eyed netizens last fall and resurfaced as Robert Eggers’ remake of the beloved classic wows critics in theaters — turns the vampire… Continue reading Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”
As He Calls for “Positivity” on Twitter, Elon Musk Keeps Using a Disgusting Slur Against the Intellectually Disabled as a Bullying Insult
“No wonder this algorithm is so messed up.” FUbar In a run-of-the-mill fight on social media — you know, the type that the ultra-wealthy used to remain aloof from — Elon Musk deployed an appalling slur against disabled people. “F u r*tard,” the 53-year-old billionaire quipped on X-formerly-Twitter after a user accused him of spreading disinformation… Continue reading As He Calls for “Positivity” on Twitter, Elon Musk Keeps Using a Disgusting Slur Against the Intellectually Disabled as a Bullying Insult
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI
“This sounds like science fiction right now, and somewhat crazy to even talk about it.” Path Forward OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has tried all kinds of rhetorical strategies to suggest that the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is nigh — and in new missive, now he’s trying a fresh pitch: that while OpenAI hasn’t… Continue reading Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI
It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions
“People use it much more than we expected.” Fiscal Shortage While trying its darndest to become profitable, OpenAI is still falling comically short — which, since it’s the 800-pound gorilla in the nascent AI industry, should probably give pause to its rivals both large and small. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, CEO Sam Altman admitted… Continue reading It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions