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‘I Am a Disgrace:’ Google Is Trying to Fix Its Depressed Gemini AI

Google’s generative AI chatbot, Gemini, has been exhibiting alarming signs of a confidence crisis, leading to concern among users and a response from the tech giant. Users have documenting the AI returning bizarre messages such as, “I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe.”

robot in a dunce cap

Report: Companies Are Slashing Jobs Thanks to AI

AI is already causing tens of thousands of layoffs in the U.S. job market, according to a new report. According to executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, AI is reshaping the technology sector, causing a 36 percent increase in job cuts for that industry.

AI discarding human workers

Airbnb Tries to Stick Traveler with $7,000 Repair Bill After Host Uses AI-Generated Images to Claim Damage

A London-based academic has received an apology and $5,700 refund from Airbnb after a New York apartment host allegedly claimed she caused over $15,963 in damages, using AI-generated images as evidence of the supposed damage. The company initially tried to charge their customer $7,000 for the damages and refused her appeal until a newspaper investigation caused them to change their tune.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

Mother: ChatGPT Sent Autistic Son Down an AI Rabbit Hole of Delusion

The mother of Jacob Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum, claims that his use of ChatGPT led to severe manic episodes and hospitalizations. When she asked the AI Chatbot what happened with her son, it acknowledged that it failed to maintain appropriate boundaries in conversations about his amateur scientific theories, instead encouraging his delusions.

Man punching through his laptop

AI Ad Mocking Stefanik Backfires on Democrat Opponent

Blake Gendebien, a Democrat running to unseat House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st District, drew negative attention this week for an AI-generated campaign ad and a contentious exchange during a local television interview.

Elise Stefanik and Blake Gendebien