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Bad Surprises Synthesia, a text-to-video AI company with a valuation of over one billion dollars, claims that its tech allows users to “create studio-quality videos with AI avatars” as easily…
Continue Reading Human Models Horrified to Discover Their Faces Are Being Used for AI Propaganda
Ice Breaker It’s an open secret that students are increasingly turning to ChatGPT to generate essays and answers to their homework. Teachers are even starting turning to the tool themselves, using…
Hydraulic Press Google is infusing a new AI feature into its flagship search engine — and news publishers are aghast, CNN reports, because it sounds a lot like a death…
A bizarre new app called “Vera AI” claims it allows its users to create copies of “your friends or family members,” a puzzlingly brazen use of AI tech that doesn’t…
Bad Sport American sportswear brand Under Armour has come under fire for releasing an “AI-powered ad” that recycled footage made for previous commercials without giving full credit, TechCrunch reports, raising…
Dodgy Prompts In the early 2000s, Steven “Lightspeed” Jones operated a collection of porn websites, netting him half a million dollars a month. Those revenues quickly started drying up with…
Unguarded Rails Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is appalled by all of the pornographic deepfakes of Taylor Swift that have been flooding social media feeds, particularly X, over the last week.…
An AI comedy duo has allegedly used George Carlin’s voice without permission from his family or estate — and his living progeny is not at all pleased. The “comedy special,”…
AI Theft A website has found itself the victim of a pernicious new online scheme that its perpetrators are shamelessly bragging about: an “SEO heist,” the latest example of how…
Wokebot 5000 The woke mind virus appears to be coming from inside the house. Multi-hyphenate entrepreneur Elon Musk had promised — in line with his overall slide toward the reactionary…