Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Do AI browsers represent the future of perusing the world wide web? The AI industry certainly wants you to believe that they do, just as it promised autonomous AI “agents” could automate tasks on your computer. But at present, they don’t seem to be all that… Continue reading AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly
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Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For years, a US telecommunications company has been building proprietary AI models using phone and video calls placed by inmates in US prisons as building blocks. According to MIT Technology Review, the private equity-backed Securus Technologies has been developing its AI products since 2023, but it… Continue reading Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls
Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Earlier this year, Microsoft officially yanked the cord on Windows 10, ending support for an operating system that had been superseded by Windows 11 four years earlier. But the tech giant’s controversial attempts to shoehorn AI into every aspect of the software appear to have turned… Continue reading Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop
Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Americans rejoice: AI might be hiking our energy bills up to record breaking highs, but it could be just what we need to break free of our dreaded government duopoly. At least, that’s according to officials from the Independent Center, a nonprofit that studies independent voters.… Continue reading Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System
Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense
Getty / Futurism Google’s forays into exposing users to dubious generative AI features have an incredibly poor track record. From error-ridden AI Overviews to AI slop dominating Google’s image search results, users have had to put up with a lot of needless and often easily avoidable nonsense. Now, Google Discover, the firm’s personalized content feed… Continue reading Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense
Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous
Getty / Futurism An anti-AI activist in California has been missing for about two weeks, according to The Atlantic, and now his friends are scared for his safety while San Francisco police fear he could target OpenAI employees. The activist in question, a 27 year old named Sam Kirchner, helped start the Stop AI group… Continue reading Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous
Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images On Thursday, officials in the UK pledged to roll out a country-wide facial recognition system to help police track down criminals. The country’s ministers have launched a 10-week consultation to analyze the regulatory and privacy framework of their AI-powered surveillance panopticon — but one way or… Continue reading Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”
Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube
Generative AI has made it easier than ever before to impersonate somebody else, from scammers using cloned voices of targets for phishing scams to deepfakes of deceased celebrities circulating on OpenAI’s Sora app. Even Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has gotten considerable media attention this year for his eyebrow-raising theory that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS… Continue reading Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
Over a decade ago, Google showed off a pair of smart spectacles called Google Glass, sparking a major ethical debate over wearables being used to covertly film people without their permission. At the time, the outrage was enshrined by the derogatory neologism “glasshole,” meaning a Google Glass wearer who was accused of having little regard… Continue reading Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chelsea Guglielmino / Getty Images Dan Houser, the cofounder of Grand Theft Auto publisher Rockstar Games, cast AI in gruesome terms last week by likening it to when farmers in the United Kingdom inadvertently spread bovine spongiform encephalopathy — commonly known as mad cow disease — by feeding… Continue reading Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease