Companies are being forced to learn the same lesson time and time again in the AI bubble era: the backlash that almost stops them from doing dumb things with generative AI privately? It’s going to be just as bad, if not worse, when they inevitably start doing them publicly. Amazon is simply the latest to […]
Amazon’s Atrocious AI Anime Dubs Are a Dark Sign of Things to Come
As generative AI material threatens to encroach further and further upon the entertainment industry, animation—and Japanese animation in particular—has become something of a major battleground, as both sides of production and distribution weigh up the worth (and potential backlash) of using the technology. But over the weekend, a surprisingly grim new frontier opened up in […]
A New Way to Ruin Thanksgiving: Making AI Slop Recipes
Remember when people started asking AI tools for cooking advice, and it wound up telling them to do things like use glue to get cheese to stick on pizza? Well, people are apparently relying on that same technology to guide them through cooking this year’s Thanksgiving dinner. In fact, so many are doing so that […]
Disney Is Getting in on AI Slop
During an earnings call with shareholders today, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the company’s streaming platform, Disney+, is preparing to expand with new elements—including ways for subscribers to share and create Disney-themed content with generative AI. “The other thing that we’re really excited about, that AI is going to give us the ability to […]
Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok Prank
Finally, generative AI has found its purpose: letting kids prank parents. In an apparent new social media trend, kids are creating AI-generated images of homeless people in their homes and sending the images to their parents, causing them to freak out and, in some cases, call the police to respond to the situation. The basic […]
You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out
The complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially requiring copyright holders to opt out of having their content appear in Sora-generated videos, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company will be moving to an “opt-in” model that will “give rightsholders more […]
Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos
Taylor Swift once said, “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have had their works fed into the data wood chipper that is generative AI tools. In the lead-up to the release of the world’s biggest pop star’s latest album, “Life of a Showgirl,” […]
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 […]
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 […]