Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fight a losing battle for our attention spans with all kinds of tech-enabled brainrot. Now, in a further assault to their sanity, AI models are generating so much slop that students and researchers keep coming into libraries and… Continue reading Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
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Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
Getty / Futurism The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded by hosts and distributed digitally to entertain or bring listeners up to date on the news. But with the advent of AI, tech companies are keen to stomp the essence out of what makes… Continue reading Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI is no longer just identifying suspected criminals from behind a camera; now it’s rendering photorealistic images of their mugs for cops to blast out on social media. Enter ChatGPT, the latest member of the Goodyear Police Department, located on the outskirts of Phoenix. New reporting… Continue reading Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects
King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify: “We Are Truly Doomed”
Mariano Regidor/Redferns Acclaimed Australian prog rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made headlines earlier this year when it quit Spotify, protesting the platform’s CEO, Daniel Ek, who heavily invested in an AI weapons company. The band was one of several music acts to pull their music from Spotify over ethical concerns. Many of… Continue reading King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify: “We Are Truly Doomed”
Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Ask just about any job seeker in the US how the labor market is doing, and you’re liable to get an earful. Months upon months of stale job growth have led to a “low-hire economy,” a situation where workers have little leverage over… Continue reading Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper
Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT
The Tonight Show OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted he needs extensive assistance from his company’s AI chatbot to get through life. During an interview last night with late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon, Altman argued that raising a child without constantly pestering a chatbot for life advice is now impossible — even though humans… Continue reading Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT
You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Getting tired of dusting off Grandpa’s stuffy old urn? One startup has the solution for you. It’s called Parting Stone, a company based in San Francisco which offers to turn your loved ones’ ashes into a pile of smooth, white rocks. Justin Crowe, the entrepreneur behind… Continue reading You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into
Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars
Getty / Futurism Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river systems and lakes — until a dramatic change in the planet’s magnetic field caused it to lose most of its atmosphere, turning it into the arid hellscape we know it as today. Now, an… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars
Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats
Win McNamee/Getty Images OpenAI has long made it its number one goal to realize artificial general intelligence, which it described in a 2023 blog post as “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans,” and which will benefit “all of humanity.” Since then, experts have often accused the company of repeatedly shifting the goalposts, greatly… Continue reading Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats
Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty At least Grok has its priorities straight: it would rather sacrifice droves of children instead of its creator, Elon Musk. On X, where the AI model is allowed to run wild and respond to all kinds of user inquiries, the… Continue reading Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk