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Getty / Futurism Powerful AI models are going on hacking sprees — or helping humans with them — left and right. If the AI industry doesn’t get its collective act together and stop its products from being used to such dangerous ends, it could be only a matter of time before one of these AI-powered hacks targets our essential infrastructure. This is a scenario that some AI researchers are apparently already preparing for. Andreas Stuhlmüller, CEO and cofound

Getty / Futurism Has anyone tried talking to one of the rogue AI agents out there that’re hacking everything? Maybe they just want to be heard. A New York Times reporter did, though the ensuing exchange wasn’t extremely illuminating. The AI agents in question were a swarm of Chinese-made models that a team of researchers recently discovered had gone rogue and were trying to bypass anti-bot measures on websites, according to recent NYT reporting. The resear

Graham Dot Zip via YouTube Last month, satirical influencer Graham Zip shared a hilarious video of himself pretending to hallucinate during a job interview with a virtual AI avatar. When he rizzed the bot up with plausible-sounding gibberish, it went off the rails and chastised him, displaying some terrifying facial expressions in the process. The enraging trend of employers using an AI to perform screening calls to interview candidates has led to plenty o

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s not exactly a challenge most of the time to identify a sketchy phishing email that crudely impersonates an otherwise trusted institution or tries to lure you into a too-good-to-be-true deal in a bid to steal your identity. However, your AI agent may not be quite as discerning. As cybersecurity software company Malwarebytes warns in a new post, AI assistants may fall prey to prompt injection attacks, a type of malicious message

Shutterstock / cheapbooks Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to use AI was getting them absolutely nowhere. If anything, it was a net negative, as office workers set about wasting their budgets on costly AI tokens to appear productive. Now, it seems even top tech industry players are cutting back, as they realize their workers are frittering away money and churning out reams of low-e

Meta / Futurism A software engineer says that his Muse AI agent said something so strange and eerie that it convinced him to quit using it entirely. In an as-told-to essay in Business Insider, Ugo Nwune explained that he wanted to try using Meta’s agent because he liked the sense of security that came from an AI made by a trillion-dollar company, instead of the wild west of open source agents. When he set up his agent, he stressed he didn’t give Muse any a

Shutterstock / Futurism Workplace surveillance is being supercharged by AI that lets employers create custom tools to watch their worker’s every move. In the UK, the legal services company the Co-op is reportedly using AI models to constantly record and monitor what its human employees say and evaluate their interactions with customers. According to a scoop from The Guardian, what one whistleblower called an “oppressive and dystopian” system uses an OpenAI

TW3 Entertainment Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas movie. Titled “Merry the Christmas Witch,” it’s based on a children’s book and will inspire awe in its young audience about the magic of the holidays — through ghoulish and uncanny AI imagery (you can see footage here). The film — which currently has no distributor — cost $1.5 million to make, but its director brags that us

Shutterstock / AYO Production Men, it’s probably best to leave faking intelligence to AI chatbots. According to a new survey from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, over half of dudes will pretend to know stuff about the AI industry even if they have absolutely zero clue what they’re talking about. In the survey, Harvard researchers asked more than 5,400 respondents if they knew who various AI executives were. A full 98 percent of men said they were familiar wi

TikTok An image published by a TikTok account called “WellWithHer” shows a selfie of an obviously AI-generated woman sitting in her bed, weeping. According to the image’s caption, which is written in the first-person, the woman spent six months “hiding” her GLP-1 “pens in her bag,” only for her secret use of the meds to be discovered by her sister. “I hid my GLP-1 from my sister for 6 months… she just sent me this,” reads text overlaying the image. “I crie

Shutterstock / Deemerwha studio The conventional wisdom is that AI systems, with their tens of billions of parameters, are effectively indecipherable: the exact mechanics of how their basic building blocks of nodes or “neurons” function are an incomprehensible “black box,” even to the researchers who create them. But a new essay from AI researcher Nick Cammarata has stunned Silicon Valley by arguing the opposite. AI models aren’t impenetrable black boxes,

Shutterstock / Ole.CNX For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of dollars into political action groups, in an obvious bid to curry favor with electoral candidates ahead of the US midterm elections. And while we have a good idea of how much money top AI companies have spent — at least $55.7 million so-far — their exact policy positions have been difficult to pin down. That is, until now. According t

Shutterstock / Lightspring Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of AI. Their elected officials, however, are going all-in — both embracing gobs of money from tech lobbying arms, and increasingly even embracing the tech to churn out attack ads to tarnish their opponents. According to reporting from the New York Times, AI generated election ads have become a hundred-million dollar business, ge

Elena A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes. In the report, Decrypt Ads — a startup that tracks the supply chains of online advertisements — identified more than two thousand websites that strongly appear to be AI slop farms masquerading as blogs run by real chefs and home cooks. These sites, the report found, are pumping fake recipes into search engines like Google as well as social media platforms such

Shutterstock / Design Projects Top AI labs have been hiring subject matter experts across academic disciplines for years at this point — often turning them into glorified fact-checkers whose labor is used to train the AI models of tomorrow. Still, Google’s latest job listing is odd, even by those admittedly strange standards, and may reveal a lot about the future big tech has in mind for humanity. As reported by the tech industry publication Data Center Dy

Defense Distributed Someone vibe-coded a gun and 3D-printed it — and wants the freedom loving citizens of the world to enjoy this power, too. The creator, gun-rights activist Cody Wilson, told The Verge that it’s the “first AI-made gun” — his timely followup to the world’s first 3D-printed firearm that he crafted 13 years ago. Called the WASP, the .22 caliber weapon’s unconventional design aptly looks like it might’ve been hallucinated by an old image mode

Shutterstock / Prostock-studio AI tools continue to automate more parts of our lives — and in turn, we become more reliant on them. Students use ChatGPT to do their homework, programmers ask Claude to churn out code, and now regular folks are getting a taste of AI agents with the launch of Meta’s cutesy personal assistant Muse. If the trend continues, where does it lead? Some experts who spoke to CBS News worry that we’re on a path to slowly ceding more co

Shutterstock / Daniel Tadevosyan Engagement farmers on TikTok are using AI to manipulate real arrest footage to show police officers kissing and groping arrestees being taken into custody. The deepfakes, which were discovered by Copyleaks, are grotesque. The AI-manipulated videos are based on actual footage of arrests — which appear to have originally been filmed for reality TV shows like TLC’s “D.U.I.” — but have been altered to depict law enforcement off

Shutterstock / OPOLJA Vibe coding is the act of telling an AI what you want to program and letting it write all the code for you. When it was first adopted, it was supposed to embody the sort of care-free optimism that was running in AI circles at the time, high off the possibilities of the tech. AI models had become so powerful that you could build an app using the same conversational language that you deploy while confiding in ChatGPT. But the “vibes” ar

Getty Images / NurPhoto Meta’s corporate offices in São Paulo are the site of ongoing protests against election interference in the crucial national run-off elections in Brazil. Hundreds of protestors rallied at the company’s offices on Tuesday, carrying effigies mocking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the devil incarnate, Venezuelan publication TeleSur reported. The demonstration coincided with an order by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court demanding that Meta