President Donald Trump held an event at the White House last week to announce the release of something called the MAHA Report, a product of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new commission that’s supposed to “Make America Healthy Again.” But if you weren’t already skeptical of the report’s findings, an article from the nonprofit news outlet […]
After Deepfaking YouTube, Google’s Veo 3 Could Slop-ify Video Games Next
Google’s new video generator is out in full force, and I don’t know about you, but my feeds are full of examples of what it can (and sometimes can’t) do. I’ve already covered how it’s deepfaking smooth-brain YouTube content, half-baked Michael Bay bulls**t, and absurd pharma ads, but there’s another category I haven’t talked about yet, […]
AI Cheating Is So Out of Hand In America’s Schools That the Blue Books Are Coming Back
It’s no secret that AI is wrecking America’s educational system. With easy access to apps like ChatGPT—which can answer any question and also write full-fledged essays for you—high school and college students have begun to cheat their way through life, content to let an algorithm do the thinking, and the test-taking, for them. It’s no […]
Google’s Veo 3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube’s Most Smooth-Brained Content
Wake up, babe, new viral AI video generator dropped. This time, it’s not OpenAI’s Sora model in the spotlight, it’s Google’s Veo 3, which was announced on Tuesday during the company’s annual I/O keynote. Naturally, people are eager to see what chaos Veo 3 can wreak, and the results have been, well, chaotic. We’ve got […]
AI Melania Will Narrate the Audiobook of Her Memoir
First lady Melania Trump’s 2024 self-titled memoir will represent the “future of publishing,” she said, announcing that an audiobook of her memoir would be narrated by an AI-generated replica of her voice. Trump unveiled “Melania: The Audiobook” via X, proclaiming it as “A NEW ERA IN PUBLISHING.” In an attached promotional clip, the narrator declares, […]
Billionaire Man-Child Elon Musk Gives His Most Petulant Interview to Date
Elon Musk gave an interview to Bloomberg News on Tuesday, appearing remotely to an audience at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. And while the billionaire oligarch has given plenty of whiny and childish interviews over the years, his latest is one of the most juvenile to date. Musk repeatedly insulted the interviewer for asking […]
AI Gets a Lot Better at Debating When It Knows Who You Are, Study Finds
A new study shows that GPT-4 reliably wins debates against its human counterparts in one-on-one conversations—and the technology gets even more persuasive when it knows your age, job, and political leanings. Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland, Princeton University, and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy paired 900 study participants with either a human debate partner […]
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was touting the research of a PhD student on the impact of AI on the workforce that “floored” professors in the field. Now the university is backing away from it and calling for it to no longer be published. On Friday, MIT announced that it reviewed the paper […]
OpenAI Just Released a Coding Tool to ‘Help’ Programmers (Replace Their Jobs, Probably)
OpenAI has launched a new agentic coding tool with the potential to make even the most fresh-faced code monkey a software superstar. Codex, which the company announced on Thursday, represents a new sidebar feature inside OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT. While obviously an exciting event in the world of software development, the tool also seems like […]
Microsoft Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ Its Azure and AI Models Have Harmed People in Gaza
Once again, Big Tech is under scrutiny for its role in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Recently, Microsoft’s sale of artificial intelligence models and cloud computing services to the Israeli military prompted a series of worker-led protests. But now, Microsoft says there’s no evidence that its products have been used to harm people in Gaza. At […]