Even Longtime Swifties Disgusted by Taylor’s Use of AI

Photo by Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift, the queen mother of never taking a stance on anything that doesn’t directly impact her, has reversed course on AI — and her biggest fans are repulsed by that hypocrisy.  In partnership with Google and as a part of promo for her twelfth studio… Continue reading Even Longtime Swifties Disgusted by Taylor’s Use of AI

Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup

TikTok / Futurism OpenAI’s recent launch of its text-to-video AI generator app, Sora 2, has already led to an enormous tidal wave of AI slop hitting internet feeds. The company made the eyebrow-raising decision of putting deepfakes front and center of the app’s TikTok-like experience, inviting users to offer themselves up for “cameos” created by… Continue reading Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup

AI Investment Is Already So Much Larger Than the Subprime Mortgage Bubble That You’ll Physically Flinch

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images No matter how much is said about the hundreds of billions of dollars hovering over the tech industry’s head like an anvil in the “AI bubble,” it just won’t pop. Not only is it refusing to budge, but it’s growing by the day. The AI bubble… Continue reading AI Investment Is Already So Much Larger Than the Subprime Mortgage Bubble That You’ll Physically Flinch

Experts Say They’re Seeing Blinking Warning Sign of AI Bubble

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The AI gold rush rages on. Multibillion dollar AI deals are being inked left and right between the heavyweights of the tech sector, dazzling us with awesome sums and promising that this revolutionary tech is just getting started. But there’s something very worrying about many of… Continue reading Experts Say They’re Seeing Blinking Warning Sign of AI Bubble

This Listing for a Rental House Is Mangled With AI So Badly That You’ll Cackle Out Loud

Zillow / Google / Futurism In the age of generative AI, not all is what it seems. From photorealistic videos of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s head grotesquely poking out of a toilet to AI chatbots that can blaze through a Turing Test without raising suspicion, it’s never been harder to distinguish between reality and a… Continue reading This Listing for a Rental House Is Mangled With AI So Badly That You’ll Cackle Out Loud

Man Embraces AI at Work, Gets Rewarded by Boss Replacing Him With It

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When your boss insists you to start using AI for your job, do you cave to their demands, or resist using the tech? The reality is that if you’re in a position where you have to ask, you may be doomed either way. We suggest you… Continue reading Man Embraces AI at Work, Gets Rewarded by Boss Replacing Him With It

Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

Kevin Dietsch / Getty / Futurism OpenAI’s latest text-to-video generating app, Sora 2, exploded onto the scene late last week, quickly devolving into a mind-numbing mess of AI slop. Before OpenAI stemmed the flood with crudely implemented guardrails, users immediately started generating footage featuring copyrighted materials, from SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth to CEO Sam… Continue reading Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images When talking about the giants dominating the AI game, people tend to consider OpenAI, the massive private company behind ChatGPT, or else Google’s Gemini, or perhaps Microsoft’s Copilot. In other words, no one really thinks about Elon Musk as an AI… Continue reading Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

Jeff Bezos Says AI Bubble Is Good Because It Will Eliminate the Weak

Stefano Rellandini / AFP / Getty Images Many investors and financial experts are concerned that a looming AI bubble could wreak havoc on the economy — but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can’t wait for it to burst. During a tech conference in Italy last week, Bezos conceded that the AI industry is in a “kind… Continue reading Jeff Bezos Says AI Bubble Is Good Because It Will Eliminate the Weak

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

Spencer Platt/Getty Images The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a “sudden correction” in global financial markets driven by the spending frenzy on artificial intelligence. As Reuters points out, it’s the institution’s clearest warning yet that we could be on the precipice of an AI disaster. “The risk… Continue reading Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster