Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes
Hack Job If you’re going to use AI to write for you, and if you also happen to answer to an editor, don’t. It’s not just lazy, it’s plain stupid,…
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ChatGPT-4o Is Sending Users to a Scammy Website That Floods Your Screen With Fake Virus Warnings
Last year, OpenAI boasted about a seismic change to its flagship ChatGPT: the chatbot could “now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct…
Poseidon malware infects Macs through fake ads on Google
Oh, great. Just what we needed. More scumbags exploiting Google’s ad platform to infect Macs with info-stealing malware. This time, the crooks are masquerading as Arc, that hip browser everyone’s…
ChatGPT Is Hallucinating Fake Article Links by One of Its Publishing Partners
Bum Deal When prompted to look for news that Business Insider broke as exclusive scoops, OpenAI’s ChatGPT apparently either ignored or hallucinated incorrect links to articles from the media outlet…
News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way
A national network of local news sites called Hoodline is using fake authors with fictional and pointedly racially diverse names to byline AI-generated articles. The outlet’s publisher claims it’s doing so…
Those "AI Influencers" Are Deepfaking Fake Faces Onto Real Women's Bodies Without Permission
Virtual Blight The humans behind the accounts of “virtual influencers,” or AI-generated characters that masquerade as the real thing on social media, are now pasting fake faces onto the bodies…
Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers
In a bewildering turn of events, Google appears to have quietly struck a deal with one of the most controversial companies using AI to produce content online: AdVon Commerce, the…
Someone’s Sending Out Legal Threats From Fake, AI-Generated “Lawyers”
Chain Link An account purporting to represent a law firm has been caught sending out ominous threats — but upon closer inspection, it appears that the “firm” doesn’t exist, nor…
The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI's $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake
Fake News Is anything ever normal in the AI industry? A doozy of a scoop by the newsletter Nongaap Investing and extensively followed up by Business Insider certainly makes us wonder. The gist…
The Company That Published Fake AI Authors at Sports Illustrated Just Lost the Whole Magazine
See Ya The Arena Group, which allowed for the publishing of fake authors with AI-generated headshots and allegedly AI-generated content to Sports Illustrated and its sister site TheStreet, has now lost…