Donald Trump, the convicted felon and current President of the United States, officially launched a new government website dubbed TrumpRx during a press conference at the White House on Friday. It’s very Trumpy. And we mean that in the worst way possible. You can’t actually do anything yet on the website, which is hosted at […]
Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World
Last week, OpenAI released Sora 2, the latest version of its AI video creator, along with a new Sora app for making and sharing those videos. The new tool has led to an explosion in realistic AI videos on social media, including plenty of fresh discussion about intellectual property rights. But one of the oddest […]
Teen Arrested After Asking ChatGPT How to Kill His Friend, Police Say
Over the past decade, as mass shootings have become depressingly common, school districts have increasingly invested in surveillance systems designed to monitor students’ online activity. Recently, one of those systems pinged after a teen in Florida asked ChatGPT for advice about how to kill his friend, local police said. The episode occurred in Deland, Florida, […]
What Past Education Tech Failures Can Teach Us About the Future of AI in Schools
This article was originally published on The Conversation. American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be replaced by film strips, because text was 2% efficient, but film was 100% efficient. Those bogus […]
AI Finds its Niche: Writing Corporate Press Releases
If there is one place that AI seems to have found work, it’s in corporate press offices. According to a new study published in the journal Patterns, which provides a comprehensive review of writing released in the post-ChatGPT era, corporate and governmental bodies appear to be regularly using AI tools to draft everything from press […]
Werner Herzog on AI-Generated Movies: ‘They Look Completely Dead’
Legendary filmmaker and ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’ superfan Werner Herzog can see the beauty in just about everything, with two notable exceptions: Chickens and art created by artificial intelligence. During an appearance on the podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend,” Herzog spoke of the incredible possibilities presented by technological advances, but lamented the sheer […]
Fed Chair Powell Says AI Probably a Factor in Concerning Unemployment Rates
The Fed decided to cut interest rates on Wednesday, citing a weak labor market as the reason. The latest jobs report showed that U.S. employers only added 22,000 jobs in August, down from the 79,000 in July, showing a dramatic slowing in hiring. It was the worst August report since the pandemic and it got […]
Fueled by AI Hype, Google Becomes Fourth Company to Pass $3 Trillion Market Cap
On Monday, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, became the fourth company to reach a market value of $3 trillion, and every member of this exclusive club has something in common. All it took was a rather small 4% rise in shares for the tech giant to hit the coveted stock market benchmark. Rather unsurprisingly, the three […]
‘He Was Murdered’: Elon Musk Jumps Into Controversy Over OpenAI Whistleblower
Tucker Carlson published a new interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday in which the two men discussed some pretty dark topics. Altman also talked about his beef with Elon Musk, and it wasn’t long before the Tesla CEO chimed in on X with his own thoughts, definitively claiming that a whistleblower at OpenAI […]
Google Is Telling People DOGE Never Existed
Here’s a Mandela effect event that you probably thought was real: The Department of Government Efficiency, the pseudo-agency run by Elon Musk to cut “fraud, waste, and abuse” from federal operations, didn’t actually exist. At least, that is what Google’s AI Overview response will tell you if you search certain content related to DOGE’s operations. […]