Don’t want a tech conglomerate to train its AI model on your website? Too bad — Google will do it anyway, thanks to a very convenient workaround. At least, that’s more or less what the Silicon Valley behemoth just admitted to in court. As Bloomberg reports, Google said that while it does give publishers the… Continue reading Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored
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Total Chad Gets Bit by Hundreds Venomous Snakes to Develop Universal Antivenom
Image by Getty / Futurism It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there’s nothing fictional about what Tim Friede’s accomplished. Since 2001, the 57-year-old Wisconsin man has let himself be bitten by venomous snakes on an incredible 200 occasions, inuring his immune system to the serpents’ deadly toxins. Cobras, black mambas, you… Continue reading Total Chad Gets Bit by Hundreds Venomous Snakes to Develop Universal Antivenom
The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages
A clone of the messaging app Signal, which was being used by since-ousted national security advisor Mike Waltz during a recent cabinet meeting, has been hacked. As 404 Media reports, the hacker easily exploited major security vulnerabilities in the obscure app, obtaining the contents of certain direct messages and groupchats, and demonstrating that archived chat… Continue reading The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages
ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions
OpenAI’s tech may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of “ChatGPT-induced psychosis.” As Rolling Stone reports, users on Reddit are sharing how AI has led their loved ones to embrace a range of alarming delusions, often mixing spiritual mania and supernatural fantasies. Friends and family are watching in alarm as users… Continue reading ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions
Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode
After a Falcon 9 rocket exploded violently and unexpectedly on the launch pad in 2016, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became suspicious that the cause was something almost unimaginably dramatic: a “sniper” on the roof of a rival’s building. Footage of the event shows the rocket erupting into a gigantic ball of fire in an instant,… Continue reading Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode
Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers
Unless you’re living in a shack off the grid, you’ve probably noticed that artificial intelligence is being shoehorned into every corner of existence, from kitchens to doctors officers to alarm clocks. And as AI creeps further into our lives, so do the hulking data centers that power it — but not everyone’s stoked about their… Continue reading Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers
Electric Car Battery Mining Operation Allegedly Hid Evidence It Was Leaching Dangerous Chemical Into Water System
One of the common misconceptions about electric vehicles is that they’re a net positive for the environment. While EVs are almost certainly better for the planet than gas-powered ones, they still have a substantial impact because of factors like battery manufacturing and coal-generated electricity. Mining the precious metals needed to build high-tech EV batteries is especially… Continue reading Electric Car Battery Mining Operation Allegedly Hid Evidence It Was Leaching Dangerous Chemical Into Water System
Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works
The CEO of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud: that nobody really knows how AI works. In an essay published to his personal website, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced plans to create a robust “MRI on AI” within the next decade. The goal is not only to… Continue reading Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works
Project Says It’s Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?
A group of companies and bioresearchers say they’ll use “leather” made from the lab-grown skin of a T-Rex to fashion luxury, “cruelty-free” purses. The project — led by genomic engineering outfit The Organoid Company, biotechnology group Lab-Grown Leather, and creative agency VML — will purportedly use the fossilized collagen of a Tyrannosaurus rex as a… Continue reading Project Says It’s Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?
Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”
“Some of them were like, ‘okay, use my abdomen.’” Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” is like the Doom of the music world. It’s been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells — it would truly be easier to find an instrument the Canon hasn’t been played on. Recently, a new… Continue reading Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”