The CIA is in the final stages of developing an AI tool designed to enhance the analysis of open-source intelligence, marking a significant stride in the West’s ongoing technological rivalry with China.
Meredith Whittaker, the president of private messaging app Signal, shed light on the intrinsic link between AI and Big Tech’s surveillance capitalism, emphasizing the profound implications of the technology on privacy and user data during her appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Whittaker went so far as to label AI as “surveillance technology,” which may be why the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe are rushing to integrate AI into everything they do.
Spotify has unveiled a new feature, powered by ChatGPT developer OpenAI, that clones podcasters’ voices using AI. The company claims the technology will be used for translation purposes, allowing the voices of podcasters to present their shows in languages they don’t speak.
In a bid to reel in the Gen Z demographic, Facebook (now known as Meta) is rolling out AI chatbots, dubbed Gen AI Personas, across its platforms, featuring personalities like a sarcastic robot modeled on Bender from Futurama.
Amazon is reportedly investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, taking a minority ownership stake in the company. This serves as Amazon’s entry into the AI arms race, a crowded field featuring Google, the partnership between ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Microsoft, and many other players.
Britain pitched itself to the world Friday as a ready leader in shaping an international response to the rise of artificial intelligence.
There is a new “not safe for work” (NSFW) chatbot app that members of Generation Z are using in order to engage in erotica with fake AI-generated boyfriends. The chatbot pushing young people further away from building relationships with other human beings is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The Authors Guild, and a group of prominent fiction authors including Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Michael Connelly, and Jodi Picoult have reportedly filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that its AI technology is infringing on their work.
MIT Professor Max Tegmark, a prominent figure in the field of AI and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, has raised a clarion call for a pause in the development of advanced AI systems, highlighting the intense competition among tech firms that he describes as a “race to the bottom.”
Data shows that OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT is mainly used for cheating on homework, as its usage fell noticeably during the summer months only to return at Americans returned to school.
An AI chatbot named “GatGPT,” developed by Defense Distributed, is positioning itself as an “anti-woke” alternative to mainstream AI chatbots.
As Hollywood grapples with its most significant labor dispute in over half a century, the role of AI in the entertainment industry has come under intense scrutiny, with British actor Stephen Fry revealing his voice was digitally cloned without his consent based on his narration of Harry Potter audiobooks.
A group of writers headed by celebrated novelist Michael Chabon and Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are suing Facebook parent Meta as well as ChatGPT maker OpenAI, alleging in two separate suits that their artificial intelligence platforms engaged in copyright violations with tens of thousands of books.
Amazon has unveiled a new AI service designed to transform how sellers create and manage product listings, claiming AI-generated listings will offer customers a more enriched shopping experience. Despite these promises, Amazon has had many problems with AI in recent months.
Elon Musk, one of several tech tycoons who met lawmakers in Washington D.C. this week to discuss the burgeoning technology of AI, warned that intelligent machines have the potential to threaten all of human civilization.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is embracing AI technologies to enhance “market surveillance” and assist in enforcement investigations.
Coca-Cola has launched “Y3000,” a limited-edition beverage designed to “taste like the future” and billed as “co-created” by AI to determine its flavor and packaging.
Filmmaker Tim Burton is the latest prominent Hollywood director to sound the alarm about artificial intelligence technology, saying A.I. is “like a robot taking your humanity.”
OpenAI, the developers of the massively popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has officially acknowledged that AI writing detectors are not as reliable as once thought, casting doubt on the efficacy of automated tools in distinguishing between human and machine-generated content.
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson recently raised alarms about the growing influence of AI-generated content in the media landscape, criticizing its left-wing bias and potential for spreading inaccuracies. Thomson argues that the end result could be an “ever-shrinking circle of sanity surrounded by a reservoir of rubbish.”
In an unprecedented move, the attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories have sent a collective letter to Congress, calling for the establishment of an expert commission to address the exploitation of children through AI-generated child pornography.
Social media giants Instagram and TikTok are under scrutiny for allowing ads featuring AI-generated sexual content to bypass their moderation systems, raising questions about what children and teens when they log in.
Tech outlet Gizmodo’s parent company, G/O Media, has laid off its Spanish-language editorial team and replaced them with AI-generated translations. The move is a stunning turnaround for leftist media outlets that once snidely suggested blue collar workers “learn to code.”
Voice chats in video games have long been a haven for young people who want to blow off steam and engage in friendly “trash talk,” but the mega-corporations that run the biggest franchises don’t like that. They’re planning to use AI to make video game chats just as sanitized and politically correct as the rest of the world.
A surge in AI-generated mushroom foraging books on Amazon has raised alarms among experts, who warn that such guides, filled with misinformation about poisonous mushrooms, could pose life-threatening risks to consumers.
A recent report from Europol warns that by 2026, as much as 90 percent of online content could be generated by artificial intelligence, raising concerns that the web might be even more jammed with useless garbage in a few short years than it is today.
Despite OpenAI’s recent update to its usage guidelines for ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot can still generate tailored political messages, a loophole that is raising eyebrows as the Republican primaries loom in the near future.
Prominent authors including master of horror and hysterical leftist Stephen King are finding themselves at the center of a debate on the ethical use of copyrighted materials in training advanced AI models. Authors have filed a lawsuit claiming Facebook (now known as Meta) and a laundry list of other AI giants have ripped off their copyrighted books to train AI systems.
A recent study by Indiana University researchers reveals a surge in AI-generated spam bots on social media platforms, particularly exploiting OpenAI’s ChatGPT to promote scams and degrade online information quality.
An alleged former hiring manager at Microsoft’s AI Platform division claims he felt pressured to hire people for important roles at the company based on racial requirements, overlooking other qualified candidates because they would not count towards Microsoft’s diversity goals, imposed from above by the company’s “Diversity and Inclusion” department.
Microsoft has taken down a series of travel articles that were created using a combination of AI-assisted “algorithmic techniques” and human review, following criticism for their bizarre and offensive content. Beyond their more inappropriate travel suggestions, the articles featured helpful tips such as informing readers that seafood is “any form of sea life regarded as food by humans.”
A recent IBM study has revealed that 40 percent of the global workforce will need to be “reskilled” over the next three years due to the increasing implementation of AI technologies.
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The UK is reportedly preparing to plough £100 million of taxpayer cash into buying chips needed for advanced artificial intelligence models.
The New York Times is considering taking legal action against OpenAI, the creator of the massively popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, amid growing tensions over copyright infringement.
A study of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, conducted by researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK, shows that the market-leading AI chatbot has a clear bias towards leftist political parties.
The Detroit Police Department (DPD) has come under scrutiny after wrongfully arresting an innocent woman eight months into her pregnancy because of a flawed facial recognition match. The AI-driven technology mistakenly pointed to the heavily pregnant woman for a robbery and carjacking case, charges made absurd by her physical condition at the time of the crime.
Rachel Zegler personifies everything wrong with the modern-day entertainment business.
Already struggling to overcome its documented political bias, ChatGPT creators OpenAI are boasting of their AI technology’s capability to power content moderation, i.e. censorship.
Google’s DeepMind is testing new AI tools that will serve as personal life coaches, performing a wide range of tasks from giving life advice to tutoring tips. The company’s own AI experts have warned against the emotional attachments some people can form with AI chatbots, making their use in even more personal roles questionable.
