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It’s not written by humans, it’s written by AI. It’s not useful, it’s slop. It’s not hard to find, it’s everywhere you look. As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous…
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More and more teens are turning to chatbots to be their therapists. But as Boston-based psychiatrist Andrew Clark discovered, these AI models are woefully bad at knowing the right things…
Safety Third Anthropic, the AI company that touts itself as the safety-prioritizing alternative to other AI firms like OpenAI — from which it’s poached many executives — has partnered with…
Sexy Time Sex robot manufacturers in China are apparently getting ready to jam custom artificial intelligence models into their wares. As the South China Morning Post reports, a Shenzen-based company called…
Image-to-Video Google researchers have developed a new AI model that can transform a single still image of a person into a moving, talking avatar. It’s called Vlogger, and its surprisingly…
Screen Reed-er Since before ChatGPT was even a thing, Laurie Anderson, the widow and longtime collaborator of the late Lou Reed, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after…
Car Talk Remember those talking GPS monitors from the early-to-mid-2000s? They’re back with a vengeance and will soon be AI-enabled, even though it’s unclear who asked for that. In a…
Political Dystopia Though this era of artificial intelligence is in its nascent stages, it already sometimes feels like we’re living in a Philip K. Dick tech dystopia, from bots that pretend to…
Context Matters It looks like AI chatbots just got even scarier, thanks to new research suggesting the large language models (LLMs) behind them can infer things about you based on…
A Belgian man died by suicide after spending weeks talking to an AI chatbot, according to his widow. The man, anonymously referred to as Pierre, was consumed by a pessimistic…