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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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Photo: Alena Butusava / Getty Images Don’t Want to Use AI at Work? Tell Your Boss It Goes Against Your Religion.
You can thank Pope Leo.
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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.
