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Photo: Lazy_Bear / Getty Images The Strange Case of Elias Thorne, the Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With
Elias Thorne is a weird quirk of the system, but also a symbol of just how hollow and deeply unoriginal chatbots can be.
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Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images AI-Powered Teddy Bears for Kids Are Here, and Experts Say They Could Do More Harm Than Good
Ethicists warn that always-on, sycophantic AI companions could quietly replace real-world social learning with engineered attention loops.
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Photo: imaginima / Getty Images Scientists Created the Optimal Robot, and You’ll Never Guess What It Looks Like
It’s not creepy at all.
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The AI Boom Is Taking Over the U.S. Power Grid, and This Map Shows Where It’s Happening
A new map shows how thousands of data centers are spreading across the country and putting more pressure on the grid.
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Someone Made a Fake Wikipedia for AI Hallucinations, and It’s Basically the Internet Eating Itself
Halupedia turns AI hallucinations into fake encyclopedia entries, which is funny until you remember the real internet is also doing this.
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Sonmez Karakurt/Getty Images Here’s How Long You Can Use AI Before Your Brain Starts Rotting, According to Scientists
Go ahead and delete that AI app off your phone.
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NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty Images ChatGPT Just Got a Weird New List of Forbidden Topics (Including Gremlins)
The company reportedly had to tell ChatGPT to quit bringing up goblins, gremlins, and trolls unless absolutely necessary.
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Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple’s Tim Cook Era Is Ending. Here’s What Tech Fans Want Next.
Goodbye Tim Apple. Hello John Apple.
