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
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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
Elon Musk’s Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Elon Musk’s race to dominate our planet’s orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk — enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up. According to storied Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, there are now one… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky
The Entire Economy Now Depends on the AI Industry Not Fumbling
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images These days, you don’t have to be a Rockefeller financier to know that the US economy is on shaky ground. Utility bills are going through the roof, imported goods are skyrocketing in cost, and job growth is nonexistent. Of course, it doesn’t bode too well that… Continue reading The Entire Economy Now Depends on the AI Industry Not Fumbling
Cocky AI CEO Does Photoshoot in Front of His Subway Ads That Got Relentlessly Vandalized
Avi Schiffmann via X / Futurism Last month, AI startup Friend launched an eyebrow-raising advertising campaign in the New York City subway, which drew a striking amount of hatred. The largely white billboards left a convenient amount of room for passersby to air their feelings about the privacy-infringing tech. As such, it didn’t take long… Continue reading Cocky AI CEO Does Photoshoot in Front of His Subway Ads That Got Relentlessly Vandalized
Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That’s So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Macmillan Publishers / Getty Images If it were a “Black Mirror” episode it would be too on the nose. Renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” hasn’t even been out for a single day, and Amazon is already peddling AI-generated copycats. One was even listed days prior to… Continue reading Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That’s So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit
Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem
JasonBotterill3 via X It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s text-to-video-and-audio AI generator app, Sora 2, to melt down into a messy pile of potentially copyright-infringing AI slop. Within just days, the TikTok-style app’s mind-numbing feed of AI-generated content was filled with videos of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up blue crystals in a meth lab, entire episodes of… Continue reading Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem
Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by AI Slop of Her Father
Getty Images/Vera Anderson/WireImage) Zelda Williams, daughter of the late Hollywood comedy icon Robin Williams, has had enough of people sending her AI slop videos of her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” the director wrote in a Stories post on Instagram. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand,… Continue reading Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by AI Slop of Her Father
People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized
@mannthatsreal/ @DrClownPhD via X OpenAI is capitalizing on bad taste with its new text-to-video generator, Sora 2. The new app allows users to share AI-generated videos on a TikTok-style feed. If you hoped that people would be using it to create great art, prepare to be disappointed — and nowhere is that failure clearer than… Continue reading People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized