Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Does Microsoft hate books more, or its own workers? It’s hard to say, because The Verge reports that the multitrillion dollar giant is gutting its employee library and cutting down on digital subscriptions in favor of pursuing what’s internally described as an “AI-powered learning experience” —… Continue reading Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI
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AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI data centers on the East Coast are gobbling up so much juice that nonprofit grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers during both heat waves and exceptionally cold weather just to protect the grid’s integrity. These blackouts would impact… Continue reading AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown
Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth
The use of generative AI for creative purposes has spawned a major countermovement. From game developers reeling from a wave of criticism for using the tech to artists staging mass protests against AI, the backlash against what’s being hailed as a technological revolution grew massively last year. In a startlingly literal example of this growing… Continue reading Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth
Trump Administration Cancels Grotesquely Unethical Medical Study After Being Caught Red Handed
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images What do you get when you put a vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the agency responsible for funding medical research throughout the globe? A recipe for Tuskegee 2.0, apparently. Some bombshell reporting over the last month has revealed a monstrous… Continue reading Trump Administration Cancels Grotesquely Unethical Medical Study After Being Caught Red Handed
Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
For years now, AI companies, including Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, have insisted that their large language models aren’t technically storing copyrighted works in their memory and instead “learn” from their training data like a human mind. It’s a carefully worded distinction that’s been integral to their attempts to defend themselves against a rapidly growing… Continue reading Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet
Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Much ink has been spilled over US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dalliances with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, brain worms, nicotine pouches, and bizarre self-treatment with a synthetic dye known as methylene blue. In spite of all those wellness eccentricities of his own, Kennedy is apparently in awe… Continue reading RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet
ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
Octavio Jones / AFP via Getty Images As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors, holding children hostage, and murdering people in cold blood, you might be wondering: who the hell hired these guys? As it turns out, AI played a huge role. According to NBC, when ICE identifies… Continue reading ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, and France’s Mistral AI. As part of the series of… Continue reading After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
Whether you’re a one-room film production house or a propagandist for a massive arm of the US government, you’re never too good to have an extra set of eyes take a look at your final draft. That’s a lesson some PR spinsters with the Department of Homeland Security evidently have yet to learn, after the… Continue reading There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images On Tuesday, the US senate passed a new law that would allow victims to sue individuals who use AI models like Grok to generate non-consensual nudes and other sexually explicit images. Dubbed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act, it… Continue reading New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes