In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is there? “I — keep — seeing — weird — long — dashes — in …
Read More »Miyazaki Fans Sure Are Pissed About ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli AI Slop
In a bitter irony, people around the world are using OpenAI’s GPT‑4o model to generate images in the style of legendary Japanese animator and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, who for his entire career has prized values of humanism, painstaking artistry, and the sanctity of nature versus the horrors of exploitative industry. …
Read More »Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About DeepSeek, China's Answer to ChatGPT
Years of feverish hype around artificial intelligence technology have convinced many that it’s Silicon Valley‘s next speculative bubble — and prompted questions of how long giants like OpenAI can keep burning through billions of dollars in their quest for a true breakthrough AI. Now, a Chinese company has unveiled a …
Read More »Scarlett Johansson 'Shocked, Angered' After ChatGPT Used Voice 'Eerily Similar' to Her Own
Scarlett Johansson said she received an offer from ChatGPT to use her voice for its new system last year. After thinking about it, she declined. Yet, she said, OpenAI used a voice “eerily similar” to her own anyway. In a statement to Rolling Stone on Monday, the actress shared that …
Read More »Sarah Silverman-Led AI Copyright Suit Against ChatGPT Partially Dismissed
A group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, were dealt an arguably expected setback in a copyright infringement case against OpenAI. On Monday, Feb. 12, a federal judge threw out some, but not all of the claims contained in the lawsuit, which alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT program was trained …
Read More »'Eternal You': A Horrifying Doc About AI Companies Recreating the Dead
Eternal You, a new documentary premiering at Sundance about the nauseating new world of digital afterlife technology, opens on a woman, Christi Angel, staring into a computer screen. She’s messaging with a dead loved one and tears are streaming down her face. “This experience… It was creepy,” she says. “There …
Read More »WTF Is Happening at OpenAI?
It’s been three days of chaos for OpenAI, the major artificial intelligence firm, after the board of directors suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday, Nov. 17. Rumors have swirled, alliances have formed and crumbled, heart emojis have been tweeted, investors have scrambled, rivals (sorta) have pounced, employees have threatened …
Read More »Sam Altman Was Suddenly Pushed Out of OpenAI, and Rumors Are Flying
Sam Altman, a major figure in Silicon Valley‘s burgeoning AI industry who earlier this year testified before Congress on the dangers of the technology, has been removed as CEO of OpenAI, according to a company statement. The surprise firing has set off a flurry of questions about why a startup …
Read More »Was 'The Creator' Written by AI?
It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has become 2023’s cultural boogeyman — the vengeful ghost in the machine that now seems closer than ever to possibly “replacing” humanity. (Or, at the very least, replicating our worst instincts and darker desires in a way that’s too dangerous to laugh off.) Musicians, …
Read More »George R.R. Martin, John Grisham Lead Authors Guild Class Action Lawsuit Against ChatGPT
George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, and George Saunders are among the authors who have filed a class action lawsuit against the company behind ChatGPT, accusing them of “feeding” and “training” the AI software on the authors’ copyrighted works. The Authors Guild — which also represents bestselling writers like …
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