“ChatGPT seems to have a very serious defamation liability problem that is a ticking time bomb.” Legally Speaking A Columbia law scholar has joined the OpenAI chat — and he’s got some a stark warnings about ChatGPT’s legal liability. Citing UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, whose recent experiments in ChatGPT’s propensity to spew disinformation found… Continue reading Scholar Warns That ChatGPT’s Legal Issues Are a “Ticking Time Bomb”
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YouTuber Gets Shot for Prank, Pledges to Keep Making More Prank Videos
“I was playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and this guy didn’t take it very well and shot me.” Prank Memes A YouTube prankster — who likes to harass minimum wage workers at fast food restaurants, pretend to vomit on Uber drivers, and anger strangers for no apparent reason — has been shot in… Continue reading YouTuber Gets Shot for Prank, Pledges to Keep Making More Prank Videos
Scientists Discover That Ancient Humans Were Tripping Balls in a Cave
“Sometimes when people think about drugs, they think it’s a modern practice. These results tell a different story.” Same Drugs, Different Era What were our bronze-age ancestors doing to kill the time? Getting high out of their minds, apparently. Human hair strands discovered in a cave burial site in Menorca, Spain, provide the first direct… Continue reading Scientists Discover That Ancient Humans Were Tripping Balls in a Cave
Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money
Free. Money. Pay It Forward If you use Google Pay, you might be in luck. Users of the payment service noticed that for seemingly no discernible reason, they’re receiving cash deposits of up to $1,000 in their app accounts. There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but, hey, here’s some free money.… Continue reading Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money
Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website
Oopsie. Slot Me Up It appears that hackers have compromised the University of Arizona’s website — and posted a bunch of stuff about what seems to be a Southeast Asian online casino. On what used to be the catalog site for the UofA’s Academic Program Requirements Reports, there is now a bunch of Indonesian-language text… Continue reading Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website
World Chess Champion Loses $30,000 Prize By Clicking Wrong Square
Well, that’s embarrassing. Master Class The world’s top chess grandmaster apparently made a fat finger error for the ages when he accidentally lost a game by dropping his queen on the wrong square — and it apparently wasn’t the first time, either. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen lost a tie-breaking online… Continue reading World Chess Champion Loses $30,000 Prize By Clicking Wrong Square
The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under
The company is burning through cash at an alarming rate. Burning Cash Stability AI, a startup that’s made a huge name for itself by helping develop the incredibly popular open-source image generator called Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble, Semafor reports, burning through cash at an alarming rate without a clear path to profitability. The… Continue reading The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under
Economist Warns That Capitalism May Be Ending
“The end of Greedflation must surely come. Otherwise, we may be looking at the end of capitalism.” Closing Time The world is changing, and it’s getting more expensive — while wages, as most working people have witnessed in their own lives, have failed to keep up with the rising cost of pretty much everything. According… Continue reading Economist Warns That Capitalism May Be Ending
Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats
“Eminem loves cats until the very end, they may drive us crazy, with their constant meows.” Copyright Takedown Record label behemoth Universal Music Group has issued a copyright takedown notice against a YouTuber, Vice reports, who created an AI-generated song about kittens using the voice of world-renowned rapper Marshall “Eminem” Mathers. The copyright strike, which… Continue reading Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats
Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — and that’s rapidly becoming a very real problem for the journalism industry. Reporters at The Guardian noticed that the AI chatbot had made up entire articles and bylines that it never actually published, a worrying side effect of democratizing tech that… Continue reading Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published