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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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AI Is Evil, But Also Very, Very Funny—This Week On VICE: Members Only
A man who spends his spare time nuking AI OnlyFans chatbots—and AI Nick Land, interviewing AI Homer Simpson.
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Pictures by Tanner O’Donnell The Real-Life Replicant Hunter
By night, Tanner O’Donnell stops AI bots ripping off your horny dad. By day, he stops them nuking the world.
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AI Homer in action at one of his concerts AI Nick Land Meets AI Homer Simpson
For years, AI Homer has been wowing the internet with his songs. A host of intellectuals refused to review him for VICE—but in the end, we found our man.
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Pangram's new AI detection extension for the Chrome browser – Credit: Pangram We’ve Reached the Point Where AI Has to Catch AI (The Internet Is Full of Slop)
Got a hunch the true author of that article, book, or essay is AI? Run it through the pangram AI detection chrome extension.
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Photo: banusevim / Getty Images Your Next Psychic Reading Might Secretly Come From a Clanker
The word salad generator is tapped into the great beyond.
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Google search's new AI-powered brain – Credit: Google Google’s Search Bar Looking a Little Weird Today? This Is Why.
Google’s basic search just got a massive infusion of AI, whether you want it or not.
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Students Keep Booing AI During Commencement Speeches, and Honestly, They Might Be Right
After years of being told the future belongs to AI and automation, students seem less than thrilled to hear it at commencement.
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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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Plume Creative/Getty Images Your Peace Sign Selfie Might Be Giving Scammers Your Fingerprints
Experts say high-res cameras and AI tools can help reconstruct fingerprint data from clear photos of your fingers.
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Pictures by Slop Shop and Third World Elite Circuits and Worship: In ROKO We Trust
ROKO26 is here: a digital successor to God, a mind blooming through code. You were chosen to read this.
