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It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right. The right loves AI-generated imagery. [...] To understand it, we must consider the right's hatred of working people, its (more than) mutual embrace of the tech industry and, primarily, its profound rejection of Enlightenment humanism. The last might seem like a stretch, but ...
Musk’s xAI is investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty.
In a world of publish or perish, academics will too often turn to our helpful robot friends and ask a chatbot to write the text of a paper for them. Sometimes they don’t check too closely if the re…
Artifacts in Trump's executive orders have led to speculation that those who penned them might have turned to AI for help.
I was sending an email when a little magic wand popped up that said “Polish” and I thought that was weird because why would I want to translate my email into Polish? I tried to click on…
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
AI must incorporate human judgement to avoid legal risks
Embodied, maker of the AI robot called Moxie, is shuttering. With their closing, parents have to explain to their kids that Moxie is dead.
Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.