Meta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny. The social media giant turned metaverse company turned AI power is currently facing a lawsuit brought by adult film companies Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media, alleging that the Big Tech staple illegally […]
Have No Fear, Google Has Plans to Enshittify AI Search With Ads, Too
Google’s AI Overview has somehow successfully managed to get people to be less engaged with search results, clicking through less often, and less likely to fact-check the information presented to them. So you know what that means: it’s time to monetize! According to a report from Search Engine Land, Google is planning to introduce advertisements […]
What’s Scarier Than a Haunted House? An AI Data Center
The owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the humming of electricity, and the looming specter of an overhyped speculative bubble doomed to pop. That’s right, he wants to build an AI data center, according to a report from Bloomberg. Derek Strine […]
Neo Wants to Usher in the Era of ‘Robotics Slop’
The new strategy is that you should accept that things suck. Source link
Former Intel CEO Launches Gloo to Bring Back Jesus Christ
A person’s relationship with god is a deeply personal one, which poses a real problem for corporations because it’s so hard to monetize that. Luckily, the ousted former CEO of Intel, Patrick Gelsinger, has figured out how to build a religion-based tech stack that will do the important work of placing a tiered premium model […]
Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s What the Difference Is
Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s alternative to Wikipedia, sparked to life on Monday afternoon. Then it went dark again. Then it sparked to life again Monday evening. As of this writing, it is up. In terms of style, it looks like Wikipedia with its optional dark mode turned on. Based on a very brief review, it contains […]
OpenAI Data Shows Hundreds of Thousands of Users Display Signs of Mental Health Challenges
OpenAI claims that 10% of the world’s population currently uses ChatGPT on a weekly basis. In a report published by on Monday, OpenAI highlights how it is handling users displaying signs of mental distress and the company claims that 0.07% of its weekly users display signs of “mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania,” […]
Microsoft Risks the Ire of the Anti-Woke, Won’t Build a Jerk-Off Machine
A line in the sand has been drawn in the AI race: the porn-brained and the porn-banned. Microsoft has sorted itself into the latter category. According to a report from CNBC, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told an audience at the Paley International Council Summit that the company would not allows its LLM-powered tools to […]
OpenAI’s New Browser Raises ‘Insurmountably High’ Security Concerns
Yesterday, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Atlas browser—a supposedly reimagined web browser that actually looks a lot more like a forked version of Chromium with a chatbot bolted on—in an effort to redefine the way that people navigate the internet. It’s not clear that it’ll accomplish that, but it has been innovative in one way already: […]
Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI Team
Meta has thrown billions of dollars at its artificial intelligence efforts. Somehow, that is apparently resulting in fewer people being employed. According to a report from Axios, about 600 people lost their jobs in Meta’s “superintelligence” lab in an effort to create a less “bureaucratic” structure. The cuts will reportedly primarily hit Meta’s FAIR AI […]