Image by Getty / Futurism Remember that huge panic around black spatulas? It turns out that the whole thing may have just been a crock of crap. A study published in October contended that kitchenware made of black plastics, and especially utensils like spatulas, contained alarmingly high amounts of toxic flame retardants due to the… Continue reading There’s a Scandal Growing About That Paper About How Black Spatulas Are Killing You
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Scientists Suggest Harvesting Blood From Mars Colonists to Construct Future City
One crew member collecting blood for 72 weeks could be enough to “construct a small habitat for another crew member.” Blood Drive Future space travelers will have to get creative to build structures on the surface of Mars. Sending all the necessary construction materials across over 140 million miles of space wouldn’t just be a… Continue reading Scientists Suggest Harvesting Blood From Mars Colonists to Construct Future City
Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started Procrastinating and Making Excuses
Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, often until five or six in the morning. He fueled this with a lot of alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine (the latter a habit shared by many of… Continue reading Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started Procrastinating and Making Excuses
Experts Startled as Teens Stop Doing Drugs
Image by Getty / Futurism Experts are mighty puzzled after finding that teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before. In the latest update from the University of Michigan’s half-century-long Monitoring the Future study, the school announced that its researchers found a trend of “historically large decreases” in adolescent drug use has only broadened… Continue reading Experts Startled as Teens Stop Doing Drugs
Aging AI Chatbots Show Signs of Cognitive Decline in Dementia Test
These AI models are kind of stupid. Forget-Me-Bots We’ve certainly seen our fair share of demented behavior from AI models — but dementia? That’s a new one. As detailed in a new study published in the journal The BMJ, some of the tech industry’s leading chatbots are showing clear signs of mild cognitive impairment. And,… Continue reading Aging AI Chatbots Show Signs of Cognitive Decline in Dementia Test
Elon Musk Endorses Nazi-Linked German Party, Even Though It Opposed Tesla’s Gigafactory
He’s saying the quiet part out loud. Germany First In an incredible mask-off moment, Elon Musk has endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD, per its German initials) — even though, weirdly, the party is against his business interests. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” the South African-born billionaire wrote on X-formerly-Twitter, quote-tweeting a video from… Continue reading Elon Musk Endorses Nazi-Linked German Party, Even Though It Opposed Tesla’s Gigafactory
Embattled Character.AI Hiring Trust and Safety Staff
Content warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. Character.AI, the Google-backed AI chatbot startup embroiled in two lawsuits concerning the welfare of minors, appears to be bulking up its content moderation team in the wake of litigation and heightened public scrutiny. The embattled AI firm’s trust and safety… Continue reading Embattled Character.AI Hiring Trust and Safety Staff
Hawk Tuah Girl Pledges Full Cooperation With Lawsuit Against Her Disastrous Memecoin
It seems that Haliey “Hawk Tuah” Welch is finally facing the music after angry investors filed a lawsuit against her disastrous meme coin. Just a day after the new filing dropped, the “Talk Tuah” podcaster broke her extended silence during the fiasco and took to X-formerly-Twitter to announce that she would be “fully cooperating” with the… Continue reading Hawk Tuah Girl Pledges Full Cooperation With Lawsuit Against Her Disastrous Memecoin
We Regret to Bring You This Audio of Two Google AIs Having EXTREMELY Explicit Cybersex
Over on Reddit, a dirty-minded user has posted what they claim is an entirely AI-generated exchange using Google’s Notebook LM — and reader, it’s very naughty. “Make this simulation as explicit and visceral as possible,” a female-voiced AI says in the sexually-charged audio exchange posted to r/Singularity. What follows is extremely not safe for work,… Continue reading We Regret to Bring You This Audio of Two Google AIs Having EXTREMELY Explicit Cybersex
Spotify Employees Say It’s Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones
According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called “ghost artists” so it can avoid paying its piddling royalties to real artists. In an excerpt from “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist” published in Harper’s, author Liz Pelly reveals that the streaming platform has a secretive internal… Continue reading Spotify Employees Say It’s Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones