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 Officially Launches Video Generator Sora 2, Now With Social Feed
Fake videos are about to look less fake, for better or worse. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of Sora 2, the latest version of its flagship model for audio and video generation. And, as previously reported, the launch of the model is accompanied by a new social app designed to allow people to share […]
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 […]
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT’s Ability to Buy Stuff for You
OpenAI just made it possible to buy things directly from ChatGPT. Starting today, all ChatGPT users in the U.S. can use a new feature called Instant Checkout to purchase items from Etsy sellers without leaving the chat. OpenAI says more than a million Shopify merchants, including Glossier, SKIMS, and Spanx, are coming soon. For now, […]
ChatGPT Pulse: OpenAI Wants to Give You a Morning Briefing (and Get a Peek at Your Other Apps)
Some ChatGPT users can now get their day started with a personalized morning briefing from ChatGPT, but first, the OpenAI chatbot will have to scour through their chat history, email, and calendar, among other things, the night before. OpenAI announced today that it is previewing a new feature called ChatGPT Pulse to users who are […]
AI Medical Tools Provide Worse Treatment for Women and Underrepresented Groups
Historically, most clinical trials and scientific studies have primarily focused on white men as subjects, leading to a significant underrepresentation of women and people of color in medical research. You’ll never guess what has happened as a result of feeding all of that data into AI models. It turns out, as the Financial Times calls […]
‘AI Scheming’: OpenAI Digs Into Why Chatbots Will Intentionally Lie and Deceive Humans
At this point, most people know that chatbots are capable of hallucinating responses, making up sources, and spitting out misinformation. But chatbots can lie in more human-like ways, “scheming” to hide their true goals and deceiving the humans who have given them instructions. New research from OpenAI and Apollo Research seems to have figured out […]
OpenAI Wants You to Prove You’re Not a Child
If you are filled with too much childlike wonder, you might get relegated to a more kid-friendly version of ChatGPT. OpenAI announced Tuesday that it plans to implement a new age verification system that will help filter underage users into a new chatbot experience that is more age-appropriate. The change comes as the company faces […]
OpenAI Reveals How (and Which) People Are Using ChatGPT
Large language models largely remain black boxes in terms of what is happening inside them to produce the outputs that they do. They have also been a bit of a black box in terms of who is using them and what they are doing with them. OpenAI, with some help from the National Bureau of […]
It’s Getting Ugly: Sam Altman Seeks Texts From Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk’s Employee/Mother of His Child
Last year, Elon Musk sued his rival Sam Altman’s company, tech superstar OpenAI. In his lawsuit, Musk claimed that the company had violated federal racketeering laws because, having once promised to stay a nonprofit research lab, had since converted itself into a for-profit company. Musk, who initially poured tens of millions of dollars into the […]