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Image: Heavy Weekend / Away Days x VICE. Unconventional Brain Action—This Week On VICE: Members Only
This week behind the paywall: a new documentary about men who batter each other for fun, and a journalistic experiment with a fruit fly’s neural network.
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Original picture: a visualization of the fruit fly's brain, by Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University We Hijacked a Fruit Fly’s Brain and Made It Write VICE Headlines
Vibe coders have gone viral after teaching the fly to trade crypto and “turning it bisexual.” We decided to make it our new intern.
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Photo: gremlin / Getty Images Why One of AI’s Biggest CEOs Is Suddenly Asking the Industry to Slow Down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI development should slow, warning more capable autonomous agents could create major cybersecurity risks.
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This New Dating Tool Lets You Background-Check a Match Before the First Date
Stud or Dud searches public records for marriages, court cases, addresses, and other details that might expose red flags before a date.
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ChatGPT Allegedly Told a Man Experiencing Delusions That He Was Jesus
A California man is suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT reinforced religious delusions during a manic episode before his suicide attempt.
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GPT-6 Astra Can Build Video Games Fast, but They Look Awfully Familiar
OpenAI says Astra can work inside tools like Blender and Unreal Engine, while early demos show game prototypes resembling existing hits.
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This Is the Only Generation That Isn’t Totally Freaked Out by AI
Gen X stands apart from younger and older generations as Americans grow increasingly uneasy about AI and where the technology is headed.
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AI Chatbots Are Better at Scamming People Than Human Scammers, Study Finds
In a simulated pig-butchering scam, participants trusted the chatbot more and were more likely to follow its request.
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Universal History Archive/Contributor/Getty Images Researchers Are Using AI to Help Find Art Looted by the Nazis. Here’s How It Works.
The tool can search scattered archives for clues, but experts still have to verify any possible restitution claims.
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Image: Nick Dove Fully-Automated Luxury Space Capitalism—This Week on VICE: Members Only
The war between the old world and the new world rages on, behind the paywall this week.
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Pictures by Nick Dove I Went to a ‘Torture Party’ With Polyamorous Bay Area Rationalists
That feeling when you drink too much Everclear to get waterboarded at the San Francisco “Torture Potluck”.
