Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Last month, AI company Anthropic agreed to a blockbuster $1.5 billion settlement after being caught red-handed training its models on an enormous cache of pirated versions of copyrighted books and other material. Now, a similar lawsuit aimed at ChatGPT maker OpenAI has taken a dramatic turn, raising the possibility of yet another… Continue reading OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
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ChatGPT Is Giving Men Such Bad Advice on Dating That It May Actually Be Trying to Keep Them Single
Getty Images You might’ve heard about human-AI relationships, but what would you do if AI was trying to sabotage your dating life with fellow humans? That’s a question more and more romantic hopefuls are grappling with thanks to the troubling rise of AI-powered wingmen. It’s a phenomenon tied to the prevalence of text-based apps in… Continue reading ChatGPT Is Giving Men Such Bad Advice on Dating That It May Actually Be Trying to Keep Them Single
Elon Musk Is Making Cybertruck Sales Look Better by Selling a Huge Number to Himself
Getty / Futurism In 2023, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised that his EV maker’s upcoming Cybertruck would sell like hotcakes, delivering between 250,000 and 500,000 units per year once the company hit its stride. But over two years later, Tesla hasn’t even gotten close, in yet another instance of Musk vastly overpromising while severely underdelivering.… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Making Cybertruck Sales Look Better by Selling a Huge Number to Himself
OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut
Getty / Futurism Eight months ago, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, moved to relax some of its restrictions around naughty content in its “Model Spec,” the document describing how its large language models (LLMs) ought to behave — a noteworthy change from its previous stance prohibiting all sexual content. “To maximize freedom for our users,… Continue reading OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut
Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically
Getty / Futurism Look, it’s a hard job market out there. Not only has new job creation slowed to a drip, but the positions that do exist are increasingly hidden behind labyrinthian AI screening software and bizarre HR scams. Not to worry, because a new startup is rising to help job seekers brute force their… Continue reading Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Scientists are a skeptical bunch — it’s in the job description. But when it comes to AI, researchers are growing increasingly mistrustful of the tech’s capabilities. In a preview of its 2025 report on the impact of the tech on research, the academic publisher Wiley released… Continue reading The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds
ChatGPT via YouTube OpenAI’s biggest advertising push yet depicts users leveraging ChatGPT in highly produced, intended-to-be-relatable everyday moments. The only problem? Consumer research shows the effort doesn’t correlate to impact at all. An ad titled “Dish” shows a young man attempting to impress his date with a home cooked meal by way of a cutesy… Continue reading OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Rowan Cheung via YouTube (Screenshot) / Getty Images You know it’s going to be good when an AI executive goes off on a tangent about “hey, what’s a job anyway!” while addressing — or failing to address — the topic of how their tech just might wipe out… Continue reading Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With
Strange New Health Issues Put Jordan Peterson in ICU
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chris Williamson/Getty Images Attention prayer warriors: controversial Canadian psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson been in the intensive care unit for the better part of a month — his latest bout with health struggles so severe and esoteric that a lesser mind might conclude his exclusive diet of… Continue reading Strange New Health Issues Put Jordan Peterson in ICU
Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A union between human and machine? Not on this Ohio Republican’s watch. A bill introduced last month by Buckeye state representative Thaddeus Claggett, from Licking County, would block AI systems from having legal personhood by declaring them to be “nonsentient entities,” NBC4 News reports. It would… Continue reading Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage