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Getty / Futurism AI companies are spending untold billions of dollars building out data centers to support behemoth AI models — and a return on their investments is still nowhere in sight. Valuations have soared well past the trillion-dollar mark, with AI chipmaker Nvidia becoming the world’s most valuable company with a market cap that recently topped $4.5 trillion. But that’s all, despite AI company revenues barely making a dent on balance sheets. And as

Getty / Futurism What is it with lawyers and AI? We don’t know, but it feels like an inordinate number of them keep screwing up with AI tools, apparently never learning from their colleagues who get publicly crucified for making the same mistake. But this latest blunder from a New York attorney, in a lawsuit centered on a disputed loan, takes the cake. As 404 Media reports, after getting caught using AI by leaving in hallucinated quotes and citations in hi

Getty / Futurism A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that the majority of US adults think that artificial intelligence will “worsen people’s ability to think creatively,” while half say the tech will deteriorate our ability to form meaningful relationships. And now, according to the center’s latest poll, it turns out that it’s not just Americans quickly becoming distrustful and disillusioned with the tech — much of the rest of the world is growi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s official: OpenAI’s latest upgrade to ChatGPT, GPT-5, is actually worse than its predecessor in the way that matters most. According to new research from the safety group Center for Countering Digital Hate, the newly “improved” version of ChatGPT which launched in August and purportedly advances the “frontier of AI safety,” produces more dangerous responses than the older version powe

Getty / Futurism Earlier this month, OpenAI launched Sora 2, a text-to-video generating app designed to churn out AI-generated videos. The app has become ground zero of copyright-infringing clips, from SpongeBob SquarePants taking a bong rip and sipping codeine to Scooby-Doo getting caught speeding on a highway. OpenAI responded with some sloppily-implemented guardrails, which were initially met with exasperation — until, that is, mischief-makers realized

Sora / Futurism It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s new text-to-video app, Sora 2, to devolve into a tasteless deluge of AI slop. Besides blatantly copyright-infringing videos of SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up blue crystals or entire episodes of South Park, users found that it’s never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities to mock them years or decades after their deaths. It’s a disappointing n

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For any young job seekers struggling in today’s horrible labor market, experts working for one of the wealthiest companies in the world have a little tough love for you: you’re pretty much cooked, fam. In an analysis of recent economic trends in the US, Goldman Sachs economists David Mericle and Pierfrancesco Mei wrote that “jobless growth” is pretty much the new normal. “The modest job g

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has committed to spending more than $1 trillion to build out AI infrastructure, totaling 26 gigawatts of compute capacity from tech companies including Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, according to the Financial Times’ calculations. And that’s just over the last month. Recouping these astronomical costs isn’t just OpenAI’s problem, either — vast portions of the wider economy are relying on OpenAI’s success, highligh

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images OpenAI raised eyebrows this month at its annual DevDay event when it announced that it will move to allow “mature apps” on its platforms. “To maximize freedom for our users, only sexual content involving minors is considered prohibited,” reads an updated company document about what will be allowed, suggesting wide latitude for developers to use the company’s platform to

Getty / Futurism OpenAI is planning to spend more than $1 trillion in AI infrastructure buildouts — an enormous commitment, especially considering its meager income. Long term, it desperately needs revenue. For now, the vast majority of the money it’s actually bringing in is coming from paying ChatGPT subscribers — and while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman boasted last week that 800 million people are using the AI chatbot on a weekly basis, only roughly five percent

Bettman / Getty Images / Futurism OpenAI was seemingly caught off guard by the controversy stemming from its new text-to-video app, Sora 2, as it rapidly became the number one place for tasteless videos of deceased celebrities being mercilessly mocked. From videos of famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who passed away seven years ago, being punched bloody by a UFC fighter, to Elvis Presley collapsing on stage and loudly passing gas, Sora has quick

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10, all but forcing users to either upgrade or pay more money to keep getting essential security updates for the OS they already own. No matter that its replacement, Windows 11, can’t be run on nearly half a billion machines, meaning it’ll create mountains of e-waste as those old, perfectly usable PCs get thrown out for new ones. If possi

TikTok / Futurism AI-powered deepfake tech has come a very long way. Unsurprisingly, teens have been using the tech to prank their friends and family. The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses — prompting widespread alarm and even 911 calls, as NBC News reports. This new AI homeless man trend is fantastic had to get my wee sister to try persuade her not to actually call the

Futurism via Sora 2 (and also Jim Davis) Forget Sora for just a second, because it’s still ludicrously easy to generate copyrighted characters using ChatGPT. These include characters that the AI initially refuses to generate due to existing copyright, underscoring how OpenAI is clearly aware of how bad this looks — but is either still struggling to rein in its tech, figures it can get away with playing fast and loose with copyright law, or both. When asked

Getty / Futurism The owner of a shore-facing restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers who ventured out into unsafe waters — after consulting ChatGPT to find tide times. As local news outlet WalesOnline reports, the swimmers attempted to wade back from Sully Island, a rocky outcropping thousands of feet offshore, shortly before the tide came back in. The restaurant owner, Gordon Hadfield, got out his megaphone and yelled at them

Getty / Futurism A woman in California successfully used AI tools, including ChatGPT, to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties over several months of litigation. As NBC News reports, Lynn White was behind on rent and initially lost a jury trial after facing an eviction notice. Instead of continuing to work with a local tenant advocacy network, she consulted ChatGPT and the AI search platform Perplexity to represen

Getty / Futurism Tech companies are rushing to deploy AI everywhere. But because glaring issues remain with the tech, it’s almost inevitable that these efforts lead to public embarrassment when the AI malfunctions. In one of the latest examples, Reddit’s new AI was caught making an extraordinarily bad suggestion: that DIY heroin use might be an effective strategy for pain management. As flagged by 404 Media, a user noticed while browsing the r/FamilyMedici

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When it comes to inclusion, artificial intelligence doesn’t have the best track record. As vast algorithms trained on troves of data scraped from the internet, AI models are inherently predisposed to reproducing human social biases. It’s no surprise, then, that AI has a real knack for discrimination, often exacerbating prejudice on the basis of race, gender, and sexuality. And as one woma

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Artificial intelligence has graced humanity with many blessings: videos of Stephen Hawking as professional wrestler, thousands of AI-generated podcasts, and more cutting edge Spotify tunes than anyone can hope to hear in a lifetime. Unfortunately, the technology of the future demands a high price. On top of the exorbitant energy cost fueling a return to industrial-era levels of pollution,

Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Earlier this year, former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy coined a new term — “vibe coding” — for using artificial intelligence to rapidly develop software using natural language prompts. But the approach comes with some glaring shortcomings that have gradually come to light, from major cybersecurity problems leading to mass leaking of sensitive personal information to rampant hallucinations that turn