People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”
Folks on social media are in an uproar after Meta announced that it’s planning to load Facebook up with AI “users,” better known as bots. First reported by the Financial Times,…
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People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs
Character Assassin The sympathetic response to Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been described by some commentators as a modern update on…
OpenAI's Sora Is Generating Videos of Real People, Including This Unintentionally Demonic Version of Pokimane
OpenAI has long refused to say whether its Sora video generator was trained on YouTube content — but its propensity for generating videos that look a whole lot like real…
Character.AI Is Hosting Pro-Anorexia Chatbots That Encourage Young People to Engage in Disordered Eating
Content warning: this story discusses disordered eating behaviors, including potentially triggering details about weights and calories. The youth-beloved AI chatbot startup Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that encourage users to…
Godfather of AI Warns of Powerful People Who Want Humans "Replaced by Machines"
Fringe Theory One of the world’s leading AI pioneers is warning not only that the increasingly powerful technology could harm the world, but that the people in charge of it…
Even People Who Hate AI Art Appear to Actually Prefer AI Art in a Blind Test
It’s easy to be smug about AI “art” because, hey, doesn’t that stuff look like garbage? But the reality isn’t so simple. To the untrained eye, it seems that AI-generated…
Dallas Cowboys Fans And Trans People
Trans people are… a very small percentage of the population. The amount of time and energy some folks spend talking about a group of people who account for under 1%…
Pluralistic: Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever (01 Nov 2024)
Today’s links Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to let you change banks with a click. Hey look…
It's Now Illegal to Post Fake AI-Generated Product Reviews by People Who Don't Exist
Cleaning Up It’s officially illegal to publish fake, AI-generated product reviews. Sweeping changes to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines aimed at cleaning up the polluted, confusing world of online product…
The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People
Pentagon Pals Pentagon-operated AI personas might be coming to an internet forum near you. As The Intercept reports, a wishlist put forward by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) — a furtive counterterrorism…