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 […]
The First 24 Hours of Sora 2 Chaos: Copyright Violations, Sam Altman Shoplifting, and More
On Tuesday, OpenAI released Sora 2, the latest version of its video and audio generation tool that it promised would be the “most powerful imagination engine ever built.” Less than a day into its release, it appears the imaginations of most people are dominated by copyrighted material and existing intellectual property. In tandem with the […]
OpenAI’s New Social Network Is Reportedly TikTok If It Was Just an AI Slop Feed
Welcome to the age of anti-social media. According to a report from Wired, OpenAI is planning on launching a standalone app for its video generation tool Sora 2 that will include a TikTok-style video scroll that will let people scroll through entirely AI-generated videos. The quixotic effort follows Meta’s recent launch of an AI-slop-only feed […]
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 […]
Thanks to AI, Charlie Kirk Will Never Die for Some People
There really is no rest for the wicked. Over the weekend, according to Religious News Service, at least three churches played for their congregations a posthumous message from Charlie Kirk, in which he assured those in the pews, “I’m fine, not because my body is fine, but because my soul is secure in Christ. Death […]
The Sound of Slop Is Coming
Everyone has a podcast these days, even people who aren’t actually people. The Hollywood Reporter recently ran a profile on Inception Point AI, a company that’s in the business of flooding the podcasting landscape with so much AI-generated slop that you simply cannot avoid it, a strategy the company at least seems to believe is […]
Amazon’s ‘Neflix for AI’ Plans to ‘Reconstruct’ Lost Orson Welles Film With Slop
Orson Welles’ 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons has a complicated legacy—both considered one of the greatest films of all time and a complete mess that saw the iconic director’s vision stifled by his studio and the original cut destroyed. Somehow, the AI guys have decided that’s their signal to get involved. According to The Hollywood […]
Reese Witherspoon Seems to Have Forgotten How Well Her NFT Predictions Went
Reese Witherspoon is on the cutting edge of technology. Unfortunately, she seems to keep getting cut by that edge. In an interview with Glamour Magazine, promoting the upcoming season of “The Morning Show,” she announced that she’d like women to join her in the blade factory, insisting that the future of filmmaking is artificial intelligence […]
Intrusive Thought of the Day: Is That YouTube Video Enhanced With AI?
Have you noticed YouTube videos have started to have a little hint of the Uncanny Valley in recent months? You are far from alone, as a growing chorus of folks stuck in YouTube’s endless scroll of Shorts have started piecing together similar qualities across videos that give viewers the heebie jeebies. That’s probably not the […]
Read This Before You Trust Any AI-Written Code
We are in the era of vibe coding, allowing artificial intelligence models to generate code based on a developer’s prompt. Unfortunately, under the hood, the vibes are bad. According to a recent report published by data security firm Veracode, about half of all AI-generated code contains security flaws. Veracode tasked over 100 different large language […]