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Content warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. Character.AI — the Google-backed AI chatbot company currently facing two separate lawsuits concerning the welfare…
With Meta’s new content moderation policies, the company is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women, who are already disproportionately targeted by online vitriol — even as it plans…
According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called “ghost artists” so it can avoid paying its piddling royalties to real artists. In an excerpt from “Mood Machine:…
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…
People will believe anything these days — including, it seems, obvious AI slop. As a viral post on X-formerly-Twitter highlights, one such example poorly, which attempts to show Donald Trump’s son…
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Bot Crimes A police department in the United Kingdom is testing an AI-powered system that could potentially help solve cold cases by condensing decades of detective work into mere hours,…
Phony Tonk The age of artificial intelligence-generated music is upon us — and already, hucksters are gaming Spotify to profit from their shitty wares. As Slate reports, a group of rabble-rousing…
Speaker of the House Artificial intelligence is being heralded as the future here on Earth, and according to a pair of scientists invested in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI),…
Legal Tricks A South Carolina man accused of pretending to be a lawyer has just had another allegation leveled against him: that he used AI to write his phony legal…