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Fury Explodes at Short Films Using AI to Make Erotica of Women From the 1970s

By Frank Landymore
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Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change

By Frank Landymore
Google

Googling the Word “Disregard” Causes Google’s AI to Return Garbled Chatbot Ramblings

By Frank Landymore
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Hackers Find That Inaudible Sounds Hidden in Podcasts or Random Videos Can Hijack Your AI Voice Chatbot

By Jon Christian
NASA

Sun Suddenly Blasts Powerful Radio Transmission for 19 Continuous Days

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

“We can confirm that ‘Hell Grind’ was not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program.”

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

“There’s no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

“His location and plans are something OpenAI could shed light on if they were willing to cooperate.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

“The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested.”

By Jon Christian

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SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

“Bro, have you seen inflation lately? Ketamine is expensive!”

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Elon Musk’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”

“First of all, how the f**k do you have real-time data on elections?”

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration

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Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate

By Frank Landymore

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Renewable Energy

Peter Thiel Working on Floating Data Centers in the Ocean

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Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI Hallucinations in Their Research Papers

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Why Are So Many Websites Suddenly Demanding Evidence You’re Not a Robot?

By Krystle Vermes

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SpaceX Announces Plans to Put Billionaire on First Rocket to Mars

Artificial Intelligence

Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Marc Andreessen Sputters Incomprehensibly at Question About How AI Will Actually Benefit Humankind

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Artificial Intelligence

Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too

By Frank Landymore

Machine Learning

Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation

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Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology

Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: “Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming El Niño

The Trump Phone Appears to Have Already Leaked Its Customers’ Personal Information Through a Glaring Exploit

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Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Bezos Lectures the Public, Saying They Should Be Grateful for the Wonders of AI

By Frank Landymore

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