Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds
Landlord LiAIson It turns out that many of the country’s landlords are using the same artificial intelligence tool to jack up your rent. Packaged as part of the popular property…
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OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time
BS Generator OpenAI has released a new benchmark, dubbed “SimpleQA,” that’s designed to measure the accuracy of the output of its own and competing artificial intelligence models. In doing so,…
You Can Insert False Memories Into ChatGPT, Researcher Finds
Remember Me OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to “remember” prior conversations — and as one researcher-slash-hacker found, it’s easily exploited. As Ars Technica reports, security researcher…
The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie, Worrying Research Finds
Beware the smart ones: they seem to have all the answers, but can also weave the most convincing lies. It seems that this logic also applies to large language models,…
Government Test Finds That AI Wildly Underperforms Compared to Human Employees
Sums It Up Generative AI is absolutely terrible at summarizing information compared to humans, according to the findings of a trial for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) spotted…
Investigation Finds Actual Source of All That AI Slop on Facebook
Digging Graves Facebook has been overrun with “slop,” in the form of AI-generated images of dubious, nonsensical junk. Images like “shrimp Jesus,” an 18-wheeler overflowing with babies, or a police officer holding…
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
Trough Luck Researchers have found that including the words “artificial intelligence” in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers, suggesting a growing backlash and disillusionment with the tech —…
Study Finds That AI Is Adding to Employees' Workload and Burning Them Out
Work Roll Despite executives’ expectations to the contrary, a new study from one of the world’s largest gig work platforms has found that artificial intelligence is piling new workloads and…
Most Users Think ChatGPT Is Conscious, Survey Finds
Survey Says In a recent survey, a pair of researchers found that a startling proportion of ChatGPT’s most active users have alarming misconceptions about the OpenAI chatbot. According to a…
Meta finds new ways for influencers to annoy us
Instagram’s new AI Studio feature lets creators build AI chatbot versions of themselves. Because who doesn’t want to discuss protein powder with an AI pretending to be a fitness model?…