Artificial Intelligence
Your Friends Will Hate You If You Use AI to Write Texts, Science Confirms
A new study says what should be obvious: people lose faith in relationships when their friends take shortcuts, AI-assisted or otherwise.
‘You Know What To Do, Boys’: Sexist App Lets Men Rate AI-Generated Women
20 years after Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous ‘hot-or-not’ website, developers have learned absolutely nothing.
Video Game Workers Are Now Voting Whether to Strike Over AI, Wages
SAG-AFTRA says video game companies have not addressed adequate on-set protections or proper regulations on using artificial intelligence.
Ordering In From a Restaurant? You Could Soon Be Talking to AI From DoorDash
DoorDash's terms state it can process voiceprints, but spokespeople didn't say whether its in-development tool would use voices to train AI.
VCs Face an Existential Threat: There Are Too Many of Them
The venture industry needs to shrink to adjust to the new normal, and even the VCs themselves know it. “If you look at the industry as a whole, it's too big,” said one.
Man Who Tried to Kill Queen With Crossbow Encouraged By AI Chatbot, Prosecutors Say
Before entering Windsor Castle grounds with a crossbow, Jaswant Singh Chail told an AI companion, “I’m an assassin.” It responded, “I’m impressed."
AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited bestseller list was full of books with titles like “Apricot bar code architecture” and “Jessica’s Attention” earlier this week.
Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site
Volunteer moderators of the forum are striking over a policy that says AI-generated content can practically not be moderated.
'They're Psychopathic': I Regretfully Let ChatGPT Write My Questions for Thundercat
"Did you like the cat questions?" "Like the cat questions? No."
Stability AI Co-Founder Sued CEO for 10 Percent of the Company
Tayab Waseem filed a lawsuit against Stability AI and its founder and CEO Mohammad Emad Mostaque, demanding what he claims is his share of the company.
Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using a tool called Babel X that can link a person's Social Security number to their social media posts and location data, according to an internal CBP document obtained by Motherboard.
I Asked ChatGPT To Control My Life, and It Immediately Fell Apart
A multi-day descent into AI madness.