Google DeepMind’s AI Pop Star Clone Will Freak You Out
Even if you didn’t watch last weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, you still probably saw it. You may already even know what “it” I’m talking about: Timothée Chalamet, and...
Text-to-image AI models can be tricked into generating disturbing images
Popular text-to-image AI models can be prompted to ignore their safety filters and generate disturbing images. A group of researchers managed to get both Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s...
Elon Musk backpedals after calling antisemitic X post ‘the actual truth’
Elon Musk faced new accusations of being antisemitic after endorsing a post on his social media platform X that claimed Jewish communities promote “hatred against whites.” “You have said the...
IBM suspends ads on X after ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content: ‘Unacceptable situation’
IBM said Thursday it had immediately suspended all advertising on Elon Musk-owned X after a report found its ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The...
How Lina Khan may have screwed up Amazon antitrust case
Lina Khan has gotten sloppy with her big antitrust case against Amazon, according to critics – and some fear her alleged screwups will enable Jeff Bezos’s e-commerce giant to wiggle...
Why video gaming isn’t always a red flag in a partner
ESC + R = Escape the red flag. Emily Cooper, a licensed clinical social worker based in Utah and Washington, has revealed that dating video gamers isn’t always a red...
Hyundai cars to be sold on Amazon starting next year
Amazon will begin selling Hyundai vehicles online in the US starting next year, the two companies said Thursday. Customers will be able to shop for, equip and buy a car at Amazon.com and...
TikTok shredded as Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ gets viral praise: ‘Terrorist propaganda’
The text of an inflammatory “letter to America” from 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden has gone viral on TikTok and drawn praise from young users – and US lawmakers from...
Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is one of the hottest topics in tech today. It’s also one of the most controversial. A big part of the problem is that few...
YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators
TikTok’s tools for adding music to short videos helped turn short-form video into a phenomenon. Now Google is giving some YouTube Shorts creators an AI feature called Dream Track that...
Parental Advisory: This Chatbot May Talk to Your Child About Sex and Alcohol
The highest ratings went to AI services for education like Ello, which uses speech recognition to act as a reading tutor, and Khan Academy’s chatbot helper Khanmigo for students, which...
Technique enables AI on edge devices to keep learning over time
Personalized deep-learning models can enable artificial intelligence chatbots that adapt to understand a user’s accent or smart keyboards that continuously update to better predict the next word based on someone’s...
YouTube requiring disclosure of AI-generated content, adding labels
YouTube is adding new rules surrounding content generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence, including labeling requirements. The Google-owned video platform announced Tuesday in a blog post that it will be rolling out a...
Rupert Murdoch says News Corp focused on AI’s ‘opportunities and challenges’
Rupert Murdoch said News Corp is “absolutely focused” on “both the opportunities and the challenges” posed by the rise of advanced artificial intelligence tools. At News Corp’s annual shareholder meeting...
Nepal bans TikTok over threat to ‘social cohesion’
Nepal has decided to ban TikTok, claiming that the app was threatening social order. The country’s communications and information technology minister, Rekha Sharma, told the BBC Nepali that TikTok spread...
