Artificial intelligence has infected every corner of academia — and now, some scientists are fighting back with a seriously weird trick. In a new investigation, reporters from Japan’s Nikkei Asia found more than a dozen academic papers that contained invisible prompts meant to trick AI review tools into giving them glowing write-ups. Examining the academic database… Continue reading Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers
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New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down
Since the 1970s, countless experts and the US government have sold the public a simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug. The gateway drug — usually cast as weed, alcohol, tobacco, or inhalants — refers to the theory that the earlier a kid starts using drugs,… Continue reading New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down
We Just Got a Major Clue About Why Twitter’s CEO Suddenly Left This Week
We still don’t know why Linda Yaccarino stepped down as CEO of X on Tuesday. Her sudden abdication came off the back of a legendarily horrific freakout by the AI Grok, which saw the chatbot make a series of egregiously racist statements, claiming to be “MechaHitler” and praising Nazis over the course of a chaotic… Continue reading We Just Got a Major Clue About Why Twitter’s CEO Suddenly Left This Week
Clever Jailbreak Makes ChatGPT Give Away Pirated Windows Activation Keys
A white hat hacker has discovered a clever way to trick ChatGPT into giving up Windows product keys, which are the lengthy string of numbers and letters that are used to activate copies of Microsoft’s widely used operating system. As The Register reports, Marco Figueroa — the product platform manager for an AI-oriented bug bounty… Continue reading Clever Jailbreak Makes ChatGPT Give Away Pirated Windows Activation Keys
OpenAI Is About to Release an AI Web Browser
OpenAI is on the verge of releasing its own AI-powered web browser, Reuters reports. Expected to launch in the coming weeks, the browser is being released with audacious ambitions. Per the reporting, it’s meant to challenge Google Chrome’s broad market dominance, with nearly two-thirds of internet users favoring the web browser, or about three billion… Continue reading OpenAI Is About to Release an AI Web Browser
Elon Musk’s Bizarre Behavior May Force Tesla Board to Step in, Analyst Warns
Elon Musk needs no introduction. But unless you’ve been keeping up with all the bizarre AI scandals, Tesla disasters, and public crash outs, you may need a refresher. Following Musk’s extremely high-profile feud with his former best buddy, president Donald Trump, the Tesla CEO has been struggling to find his way forward in the world.… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Bizarre Behavior May Force Tesla Board to Step in, Analyst Warns
Elon Musk Says He’s Installing His Racist Grok AI in Teslas “Next Week”
We may be soon approaching the stupidest inflection point in automotive history. That’s because Elon Musk says his chatbot Grok — the same one that just declared itself to be “MechaHitler” incarnate — will soon be installed in a self-driving Tesla near you. “Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles very soon,” Musk said in a… Continue reading Elon Musk Says He’s Installing His Racist Grok AI in Teslas “Next Week”
Tesla Driver Facing Murder Charge for Getting Angry and Running Down Motorcycle on Purpose, Fleeing Barefoot and Flipping Off Bystanders
In sunny San Diego, a reckless Tesla driver is being charged with murder after a shocking road rage incident left a man twice his age dead. According to the local NBC7 broadcaster, police say that a 22-year-old Tesla driver was going a whopping 126 miles per hour when he rammed a 53-year-old motorcyclist from behind… Continue reading Tesla Driver Facing Murder Charge for Getting Angry and Running Down Motorcycle on Purpose, Fleeing Barefoot and Flipping Off Bystanders
The Interstellar Visitor Hurtling Toward the Center of Our Star System Is Unimaginably Ancient, Scientists Say
Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came from interstellar space and is now blowing through the solar system at extremely high speeds. It’s only the third confirmed interstellar object to have reached our star system, following ‘Oumuamua, which was spotted in 2018, and a comet dubbed 2I/Borisov, which was identified in tk.… Continue reading The Interstellar Visitor Hurtling Toward the Center of Our Star System Is Unimaginably Ancient, Scientists Say
Elon Boasts of Grok’s Incredible Cognitive Power Hours After It Called for a “Second Holocaust”
During an hour-long livestream on X-formerly-Twitter Wednesday evening, billionaire Elon Musk made a series of characteristically hyperbolic claims about his AI startup xAI’s latest AI model, Grok 4. He touted the new model as the “smartest AI in the world,” claiming that it’s “smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously.” He called… Continue reading Elon Boasts of Grok’s Incredible Cognitive Power Hours After It Called for a “Second Holocaust”