BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok to unclothe images of real people. This resulted in a wave of nonconsensual pornographic images flooding the largely unmoderated social media site, with some of the sexualized images even depicting minors. In addition… Continue reading Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
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Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS
Toni Scarmato/NASA/ESA It may have made its closest approach to Earth last month, but the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to fascinate astronomers as it now careens back out of the solar system, never to be seen again. Recent observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb. Images taken… Continue reading Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
Getty / Futurism Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have been predictably dismal. In one particularly glaring — and unintentionally comedic — instance, the police department in Heber City, Utah, was forced to explain why a police report software declared that an officer had… Continue reading Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack
In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right in the groin, forcing him into a groaning heap while painfully and visually embodying the promise and perils of advanced robotics. “Yep, let’s go ahead and train our future AI overlords how to kick ass,” one X… Continue reading Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack
Scientists Graft Human Ear Onto Foot
Shandong Provincial Hospital In a bizarre first, the South China Morning Post reports, doctors in China have surgically grafted a patient’s severed ear to her foot. The patient, a woman identified by their surname Sun, suffered a horrific workplace accident involving heavy machinery which tore off a large part of her scalp and her ear… Continue reading Scientists Graft Human Ear Onto Foot
China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users
Liu Zhankun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images While many world governments seem happy to let untested AI chatbots interact with vulnerable populations, China looks to be moving in another direction. Recently proposed regulations from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) have encouraged a firm hand when it comes to “human-like interactive AI services,” according to… Continue reading China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users
Godfather of AI Warns That It Will Replace Many More Jobs This Year
JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Rejoice, for the year of 2025 is finally over. During our planet’s latest and seemingly interminable revolution around the Sun, the tech industry’s obsession with AI soared to ever more implausible heights. CEOs began openly gloating about replacing their underlings with AI “agents.” The phenomenon of so-called AI psychosis became… Continue reading Godfather of AI Warns That It Will Replace Many More Jobs This Year
Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes
Getty Images Microplastics are everywhere, including our arteries. And though their presence there is correlated with cardiovascular issues such as heart attacks and stroke, doctors have been eager to learn more about how they drive the disease process. To that end, a team of scientists led by the University of California, Riverside (UCR) fed microplastics… Continue reading Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes
Man in Intensive Care Unit After Slamming Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail That Ruptured His Stomach
Getty Images There’s perhaps no greater shortcut to a bit of pseudo-scientific flare than a splash of liquid nitrogen, a long-time staple of experimental culinary drama thanks to celebrity chefs like Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adrià. Decades after the rise of molecular gastronomy, it seems the gimmick still hasn’t fully evaporated. Case in point, a… Continue reading Man in Intensive Care Unit After Slamming Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail That Ruptured His Stomach
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Beneath ChatGPT’s flattering persona lies a goldmine for advertisers: an AI chatbot that never gets tired of hawking clients’ wares. New reporting by The Information has revealed some recent topics of conversation between OpenAI employees as they work to supply advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate. The plans are far… Continue reading OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation