“F/19 feeling pretty today,” Claudia’s post reads. She’s got straight black bangs and giant blue-green eyes, with just the socially appropriate amount of cleavage sticking out of her grey tank top. With her alabaster skin, delicate features, and vaguely indie hairstyle, she looks exactly like someone the average Redditor would …
Read More »Tech Leaders Sign Open Letter Calling for Pause on AI Development
Over 1,400 tech leaders and academics including Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have signed an open letter calling on Artificial Intelligence developers to pause training of some of their more sophisticated AI experiments, citing risks they claim could result in “loss of control of …
Read More »A Bunch of Top Music Advocates Want to Ensure AI Doesn't Replace Your Favorite Artist
Artificial intelligence is shaping up to be the largest disruptor to the music industry since digital downloads, and it poses one of the most important existential questions to music creation the art form itself has ever faced. As much-covered chatbots like ChatGPT and a growing list of AI songwriting software …
Read More »Fake Biden Speeches Are the Hottest Trend in AI Voice Tech
Over the weekend, the Twitter account for a London police department shared that officers had arrested suspects for possession of “a large amount of cannabis,” including a picture of what appeared to be some truly foul weed. The replies on the post quickly filled up with jokes about the cops …
Read More »Microsoft's Bing A.I. Is Pissed at Microsoft
After launching an AI-powered Bing search engine earlier this month, Microsoft introduced an update designed to improve its conservations with humanlike responses, the Washington Post reported. The new Bing integrates a new version of AI first debuted by OpenAI, the company behind the popular chat bot ChatGPT. However, while users …
Read More »AI Chat Bots Are Running Amok — And We Have No Clue How to Stop Them
Now that we’re past the era of influencers and celebrities flogging NFTs, we’re free to focus on a new hot topic in tech: artificial intelligence tools. It was the artistic possibilities that first captured our interest — using AI programs to generate hyper-stylized selfies, or create an ideal human form, …
Read More »Bestiality and Beyond: ChatGTP Works Because Underpaid Workers Read About Horrible Things
ChatGPT has been hailed as the future of AI text generators — and the end of high school writing assignments — for its ability to craft believable, oftentimes stylized human speech from prompts. The text AI works by drawing from examples of human language cataloged online. That includes the worst …
Read More »'M3GAN' Sequel Set for 2025
Sorry to all those who are terrified by demonic dolls, but M3GAN isn’t going anywhere. The hit horror film M3GAN has already received a green light for a sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Currently titled M3GAN 2.0, it is expected to hit theaters on Jan. 17, 2025. The news …
Read More »'M3GAN' Is the Killer-Robot Blair Waldorf You Didn't Know You Needed
Is there anything M3GAN can’t do? At 4 feet tall, she is small but mighty. When you forget to flush or wash your hands, she’ll remind you. She can explain the science behind using a drink coaster and ensure that you always will. At night, she can read you bedtime …
Read More »A Psychologist Explains Why Your 'Hot AI Selfies' Might Make You Feel Worse
No matter where you hang out online, you’ve probably seen friends sharing colorful, intensely stylized illustrations of themselves. The images weren’t made by human artists but with an app called Lensa, from the photo and video editing company Prisma Labs. While Lensa has been available since 2018, it recently added …
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