Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s no secret that generative AI has been an amazing weapon for spammers, but the scale of some of these operations may make you wince. A new piece from The Telegraph explores the bizarre new world of AI-generated podcasts — and specifically, a single podcast network… Continue reading Company Churning Out AI Podcasts Filled With Bizarre Glitches They Didn’t Even Catch
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Scientists Investigate Evidence of “Burrowing” Under Surface of Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Networks of narrow channels lining the surface of Martian dunes, called “gullies,” have puzzled astronomers for decades. At first, researchers suggested they were formed by liquid water billions of years ago, around the time when the Red Planet was suspected to be teeming with massive networks of rivers and lakes. Since then, observations by… Continue reading Scientists Investigate Evidence of “Burrowing” Under Surface of Mars
OpenAI Researcher Forced to Delete “Embarrassing” Tweet Claiming Huge Breakthrough
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty / X (Screenshots) An OpenAI exec bragged that ChatGPT had discovered a mathematical breakthrough — and was immediately left with egg on his face when it turned out to be bogus, The Decoder reports. We begin where any good controversy begins: with a now-deleted tweet. This one… Continue reading OpenAI Researcher Forced to Delete “Embarrassing” Tweet Claiming Huge Breakthrough
Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford
Endless Summer (Screenshots) Are you one of the millions of workers who’ve recently been laid off, had their wages cut, or are locked in an endless struggle just to hang onto the job you have? Are you tired of dreaming of a vacation that never seems to come, amidst a stagnating economy where all the… Continue reading Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford
Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism Apps and platforms relying on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing service, were in a jam this morning after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world’s internet — in a striking example of how infrastructure consolidation makes the modern internet vulnerable to a failure… Continue reading Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”
Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun
ESA / Futurism Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to fascinate astronomers as it rips through our solar system. And the more we find out about the object — widely suspected to be an icy comet — the more questions emerge. Latest among those mysteries: the Keck II telescope in Hawaii observed the object when it was… Continue reading Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun
President Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Spraying Explosive Diarrhea on Peaceful Protestors
AI Generated Video (Screenshots) Welcome to the age of slop spectacle, where AI horrors are flushed down to you from the very top. On Saturday night, sitting president of the United States of America Donald Trump shared an extraordinarily bizarre AI-generated video of himself piloting a fighter jet labelled “KING TRUMP” while strafing droves of… Continue reading President Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Spraying Explosive Diarrhea on Peaceful Protestors
Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project
Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Earlier this year, former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy coined a new term — “vibe coding” — for using artificial intelligence to rapidly develop software using natural language prompts. But the approach comes with some glaring shortcomings that have gradually come to light, from major cybersecurity problems leading… Continue reading Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project
Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, were originally intended to treat diabetes — and didn’t become blockbuster prescriptions until doctors realized that they were also potent weight loss aids that seem to re-wire patients’ relationship to food and satiety.… Continue reading Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic
Startup Reveals “Space Armor” to Protect Astronauts From Elon Musk’s Orbital Trash
Getty / Futurism Never content to pollute only the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere, billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are increasingly flooding our planet’s orbit with debris from their for-profit space ventures. SpaceX, for example, already has some 8,600 active Starlink satellites doing laps around the planet, a number that needs constant reinforcements as… Continue reading Startup Reveals “Space Armor” to Protect Astronauts From Elon Musk’s Orbital Trash