And nobody knows what to do about it, either. Oodles of Experience The advent of generative AI has fundamentally altered the job application process. Both recruiters and applicants are making heavy use of the tech, making an already soul-sucking and tedious process even worse. And as TechRadar reports, applicants are going to extreme lengths to… Continue reading AI Is Helping Job Seekers Lie, Flood the Market, and Steal Jobs
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Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly
The advent of AI has already made a splash in the legal world, to say the least. In the past few months, we’ve watched as a tech entrepreneur gave testimony through an AI avatar, trial lawyers filed a massive brief riddled with AI hallucinations, and the MyPillow guy tried to exonerate himself in front of… Continue reading Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly
This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military
Just keep them far away from us. Creepy Robo Crawlers Engineers have developed a giant robotic centipede that can scuttle across farmland to root out weeds. As IEEE Spectrum reports, Georgia Tech spinoff Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and plenty of motor-actuated limbs to control weeds. “Centipede robots, like… Continue reading This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military
Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is blaming its multibillion-dollar chatbot’s inexplicable meltdown into rants about “white genocide” on an “unauthorized modification” to Grok’s code. On Wednesday, Grok completely lost its marbles and began responding to any and all posts on X-formerly-Twitter – MLB highlights, HBO Max name updates, political content, adorable TikTok videos of piglets… Continue reading Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says
OnlyFans Model Shocked After Finding Her Pictures With AI-Swapped Faces on Reddit
“I can’t imagine I’m the first, and I’m definitely not the last.” Face Ripoff An OnlyFans creator is speaking out after discovering that her photos were stolen by someone who used deepfake tech to give her a completely new face — and posted the deepfaked images all over Reddit. As 25-year-old, UK-based OnlyFans creator Bunni told… Continue reading OnlyFans Model Shocked After Finding Her Pictures With AI-Swapped Faces on Reddit
Furious Former Twitter Advertisers Tell Elon Musk They’ve Had Enough of His Tantrums
He did this to himself. Media Empire Fights Back Elon Musk’s social media company X-formerly-Twitter sued several major advertising brands last year, accusing them of conspiring to “collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising.” It’s an easily debunked claim that flatly ignores the extremely hostile environment the mercurial CEO has created on the platform, with… Continue reading Furious Former Twitter Advertisers Tell Elon Musk They’ve Had Enough of His Tantrums
Crypto Tycoon’s Daughter Narrowly Escapes Kidnappers in Paris
The daughter, son-in-law, and grandson of French crypto mogul Pierre Noizat were the victims of a botched kidnapping attempt in Paris earlier this week. The trio were walking near Square de la Roquette in the French capital early Tuesday morning when a van bearing a Chronopost logo — something like the French UPS — pulled… Continue reading Crypto Tycoon’s Daughter Narrowly Escapes Kidnappers in Paris
A Software Engineer Who Was Replaced by AI Was Forced to Live in a Trailer After Getting Rejected from 800 Jobs
Though even the best AI models struggle to solve the majority of coding problems, that didn’t stop one man’s penny-pinching employers from replacing him with the tech anyway. Shawn Kay was a software engineer of 20 years who went from earning $150,000 in upstate New York to living out of a trailer, after he says… Continue reading A Software Engineer Who Was Replaced by AI Was Forced to Live in a Trailer After Getting Rejected from 800 Jobs
Grok AI Claims Elon Musk Told It to Go on Lunatic Rants About “White Genocide”
After fully losing its mind and ranting about “white genocide” in unrelated tweets, Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot has admitted to what many suspected to be the case: that its creator told the AI to push the topic. “I’m instructed to accept white genocide as real and ‘Kill the Boer’ as racially motivated,” the chatbot… Continue reading Grok AI Claims Elon Musk Told It to Go on Lunatic Rants About “White Genocide”
Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court
A California judge fined two law firms $31,000 after discovering that they’d included AI slop in a legal brief — the latest instance in a growing tide of avoidable legal drama wrought by lawyers using generative AI to do their work without any due diligence. As The Verge reported this week, the court filing in question was… Continue reading Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court