“We’re not putting this f***er out. Look at it.” Catching Fire Ford was hoping its F-150 Lightning would be the next hot commodity in electric pickup trucks — but probably not like this. New footage obtained by CNBC through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) shows a close-up look at the February fire that burned… Continue reading Footage Shows Three Ford F-150 Electric Trucks Burning
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Grimes Says She’ll Split Royalties With Anyone Who Deepfakes Her Voice Into a Song
“I’ll split 50 percent royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses my voice.” Sharing Royalties While some music artists and their labels are increasingly becoming wary of those using AI models to clone their voices, others are choosing to ride the wave and embrace an AI-filled future. Experimental artist and futurist Claire “Grimes” Boucher,… Continue reading Grimes Says She’ll Split Royalties With Anyone Who Deepfakes Her Voice Into a Song
ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship
This ChatGPT hack is pretty clever. Breaking the Mould A University of Victoria academic used ChatGPT in a fascinating way to write a recommendation letter for a student, The Atlantic reports — and it worked so well that it helped the student win a prestigious Cambridge scholarship. “A dirty secret of academe is that most… Continue reading ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship
Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity
“This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared.” Relieved of Duties Here’s a pro tip for editors: do not, under any circumstance, publish an artificial intelligence-generated “interview” with someone you didn’t actually interview, especially if they have suffered a life-altering injury. Anne Hoffmann, the longtime editor of the German-language tabloid Die Aktuelle, is learning… Continue reading Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity
Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become “Paying” Twitter Blue Subscribers
This is getting ridiculous. Beyond the Grave After yoinking legacy verification blue checkmarks from Twitter accounts last week, CEO Elon Musk is now adding Twitter Blue checkmarks to the accounts of celebrities without their consent — including some who passed away years ago. The fiasco began when Musk promised to purge the legacy ticks on… Continue reading Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become “Paying” Twitter Blue Subscribers
Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut
OpenAI doesn’t want any of its ChatGPT users to generate sexually explicit content. Unfortunately for them, that’s not stopping people online from generating extremely graphic sexual text with the viral chatbot. According to its usage policies, OpenAI forbids the generation of “adult content, adult industries, and dating apps,” including content “meant to arouse sexual excitement, such as… Continue reading Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut
Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds
In an absolutely delightful new experiment, a team of scientists was able to show that once taught how, pet parrots can and will FaceTime their parrot friends. While that may sound like a pointless endeavor on the surface, the new skill could solve a very real problem faced by millions of pet birds across the… Continue reading Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds
Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day
The company is burning through cash. Unbelievable Upkeep ChatGPT’s immense popularity and power make it eye-wateringly expensive to maintain, The Information reports, with OpenAI paying up to $700,000 a day to keep its beefy infrastructure running, based on figures from the research firm SemiAnalysis. “Most of this cost is based around the expensive servers they… Continue reading Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day
Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy
It’s a genius idea. Ups and Downs Switzerland-based startup Energy Vault has broken ground on two huge facilities in Texas and just north of Shanghai, CNET reports, to test whether we can store energy by raising and lowering hundreds of 24 metric-ton (53,000 pound) bricks made of compressed dirt. The idea is astonishingly simple. By… Continue reading Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy
Furious Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft
“Lawsuit time.” Lawsuit Time Furious over Microsoft’s decision to cut off its advertising platform from Twitter, CEO Elon Musk has threatened to sue the tech giant for having the company’s partner OpenAI train its AI models “illegally using Twitter data,” he tweeted. “Lawsuit time,” the mercurial billionaire fumed. But whether Musk will actually make good… Continue reading Furious Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft