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Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle
Sports Illustrated publisher The Arena Group has fired two senior executives, COO Andrew Kraft and President Rob Barrett, following its recent AI fiasco. The dismissals were confirmed by a...
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SEC Chair Warns AI "Herding" Could Drive Markets "Off an Inadvertent Cliff"
Hive Mind Last month, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Gary Gensler warned that it's "nearly unavoidable" that AI will lead to financial economic crisis. Now, at an event...
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Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After AI Scandal
Late last month, we reported that venerable magazine Sports Illustrated had been publishing commerce articles bylined by nonexistent writers with AI-generated profile pictures. The revelation sparked a...
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Microsoft Training AI to Do Paperwork to Build Nuclear Power Plants
Three Mile AIsland Tech giant Microsoft is betting big on nuclear power to power its extremely electricity-hungry AI models. On its own, that shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Machine learning...
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Pennsylvania Politician Using Talking AI Chatbot to Call Thousands of Voters
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 love...
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Rite Aid's Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft
Face Off When companies and organizations use facial recognition technology for surveillance or security, the results are inaccurate enough that they often lead to disastrous outcomes. The latest case...
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80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be...
In fascinating research, new polling from the research and advocacy nonprofit AI Policy Institute (AIPI) found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal....
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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI
Et Tu, Duo? The popular language-learning app Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a push to integrate generative AI into its services, multiple outlets have reported....
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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It
Bad AIpple How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to AI researchers, not very — and attempting to reroute a bad apple AI's more sinister proclivities...
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CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal
CNET parent company Red Ventures has been looking to sell off the stalwart technology site, according to a new report from Axios. But unfortunately for Red Ventures, it's had a tough time finding a...
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Sports Illustrated Publisher Laying Off Staff After AI Scandal
The union of Sports Illustrated says that the legendary magazine's publisher, The Arena Group, is laying off many or perhaps all its staff following a failed payment to the brand's licensor — leaving...
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Huge Proportion of Internet Is AI-Generated Slime, Researchers Find
Garbage Pail Kids The internet's steady fall into the AI-garbled dumpster continues. As Vice reports, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab found that a...
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Grand Theft Auto Voice Actor Furious at AI That Copied His Voice
Voice Over While some voice actors have decried a recent deal that SAG-AFTRA struck with an AI voiceover studio, one voice actor is already dealing with fallout from AI tech after another company used...
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Group Linked to Sam Altman Launches AI to Defeat Joe Biden
A super PAC with deep ties to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched an AI chatbot this week in a bid to deny President Joe Biden from winning a second term in office, The Washington Post reports. The group,...
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AI Customer Service Bot Disabled After Trashing Company Using It
Customer Disservice The UK-based package delivery service DPD has disabled parts of its AI chatbot service after the bot was caught swearing at customers and even insulting DPD, multiple outlets have...
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[UPDATED] AI-Generated Poster Confirmed in "True Detective"
Eagle-eyed fans noticed some strange, prominently displayed band posters in the background of the latest episode of HBO's "True Detective." "What’s up with these posters?" one Reddit user wrote. "They...
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Scandal as AI-Generated Audio of Politician Slamming Colleague Goes Viral
Fake News A mini scandal has erupted in the bareknuckle world of New York City politics after AI-generated audio went viral this weekend because it deep faked the voice of a politician slamming another...
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Man Says Sunglass Hut Used Facial Recognition to Falsely Jail Him, Where He...
False Positive A 61-year-old man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest for a robbery in Houston, Texas, The Guardian reports. Harvey Eugene...
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Guy Buys The Hairpin's Domain, Proudly Turns It Into AI-Powered Zombie...
AI Sludge The Hairpin was a beloved women's and culture website that gave rise to brand name writers like Jia Tolentino and Jazmine Hughes until it shut down in 2018. But now it churns out nonsensical...
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Microsoft Engineer Says He Was Silenced for Warning About DALL-E Issue Linked...
Insider Silenced Things are heating up for Microsoft. First, one of the company's AI programs was blamed for the deepfake pornographic images of Taylor Swift flooding social media, which were so bad...
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