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AI Generated Video (Screenshots) Welcome to the age of slop spectacle, where AI horrors are flushed down to you from the very top. On Saturday night, sitting president of the United States of America Donald Trump shared an extraordinarily bizarre AI-generated video of himself piloting a fighter jet labelled “KING TRUMP” while strafing droves of peaceful protestors with multiple barrages of — we swear we are not making this up — liquid diarrhea. This is not

Endless Summer (Screenshots) Are you one of the millions of workers who’ve recently been laid off, had their wages cut, or are locked in an endless struggle just to hang onto the job you have? Are you tired of dreaming of a vacation that never seems to come, amidst a stagnating economy where all the wealth seems to line the pockets of a few powerful billionaires? Not to worry — thanks to rapid advances in technology, you can travel from the skyscrapers of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty / X (Screenshots) An OpenAI exec bragged that ChatGPT had discovered a mathematical breakthrough — and was immediately left with egg on his face when it turned out to be bogus, The Decoder reports. We begin where any good controversy begins: with a now-deleted tweet. This one was by Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI who last week proclaimed that the company’s newest large language model, GP

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s no secret that generative AI has been an amazing weapon for spammers, but the scale of some of these operations may make you wince. A new piece from The Telegraph explores the bizarre new world of AI-generated podcasts — and specifically, a single podcast network called “Quiet Please” that has dreams of online domination. It boasts nearly one hundred separate podcast series, with ove

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Earlier this month, data analyzed by Deutsche Bank showed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT revenue was starting to plateau in Europe, suggesting that enthusiasm for the AI chatbot app to beat may be waning. That’s despite the industry’s sky-high promises of delivering a technological revolution, as astronomical amounts of money continue to be poured into building out AI infrastructure. Now it appears that a similar story may be playing out el

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: STR / NurPhoto via Getty Images Inveterate overpromiser Elon Musk is teasing that his chatbot Grok could soon “achieve artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — a hypothetical form of AI system that surpasses humans in virtually every way, and remains the white whale of the AI industry. “My estimate of the probability of Grok 5 achieving AGI is now at 10 percent and rising,” Musk wrote on his website

Freepik (Screenshot) The scenes are grisly: stick-thin children huddling together in a muddy stream, white volunteers surrounded by throngs of starving Africans, and Arab children in refugee camps holding tin bowls. The only problem? None of them are real. In a macabre phenomenon sweeping the world’s leading non-government organizations, The Guardian reports, charity groups are now weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery-slop — replete with non

OpenAI OpenAI has announced a brand-new AI-powered web browser, dubbed ChatGPT Atlas, which is now available globally. Perhaps most memorably, Atlas features an “agent mode” — initially limited to paying Plus, Pro, and Business users — that acts as a natural extension of OpenAI’s forays into agentic AIs, meaning models intended to autonomously complete tasks. In the context of a browser, that means that users can watch the AI move the cursor as it navigate

Getty / Futurism Spotify is continuing to grapple with a tidal wave of AI slop that’s frustrating its users. While the company recently promised to address the issue of AI impersonators and content farms that “push ‘slop’ into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers,” the platform’s paying subscribers are increasingly fed up with being recommended slop. A quick search on social media reveals that slop continues to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP; Michael M. Santiago; Thomas Banneyer/picture alliance via Getty Images Hundreds of public figures — including multiple AI “godfathers” and a staggeringly idiosyncratic array of religious, media, and tech figures — just signed a letter calling for a “prohibition” on the race to build AI superintelligence. Simply titled the “Statement on Superintelligence,” the letter, which was

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When former OpenAI safety researcher Stephen Adler read the New York Times story about Allan Brooks, a Canadian father who had been slowly driven into delusions by obsessive conversations with ChatGPT, he was stunned. The article detailed Brooks’ ordeal as he followed the chatbot down a deep rabbit hole, becoming convinced he had discovered a new kind of math — which, if true, had grave i

Getty / Futurism Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is once again shaking up its artificial intelligence unit: as Axios reports, the company is cutting some 600 roles from its so-called Superintelligence lab. Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang noted in a memo that the company is looking to streamline the greater AI department. “By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more sc

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps. An even greater source of alarm was how long

Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images Famed Canadian entertainer and TV host Alan Hamel has announced that he’s created an AI clone of his late wife, actress Suzanne Somers, who passed away from breast cancer at the age of 76 in 2023. “Obviously, Suzanne was greatly loved, not only by her family, but by millions of people,” Hamel told People. “One of the projects that we have coming up is a really interesting project, the Suzanne AI Twin.” According to the 89

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images The family of Adam Raine, a California teen who took his life after extensive conversations with ChatGPT about his suicidal thoughts, has amended their wrongful death complaint against OpenAI to allege that the chatbot maker repeatedly relaxed ChatGPT’s guardrails around discussion of self-harm and suicide. The amended complaint, which was filed today, points to chan

AI generated Ireland is just days away from electing a new president — a mostly ceremonial role, though the office does carry constitutional responsibilities like appointing the Taoiseach, or prime minister, and referring legislation to the courts, granting the post real authority. This year, independent progressive Catherine Connolly has surged ahead in the polls, commanding a comfortable lead over her sole rival, the center-right Heather Humphreys. That

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A hype cycle as overwhelming and logic-defying as the AI boom comes with its own whirlwind succession of trends that are their own mini booms driven by billions of dollars of money. Once the world got used to large language model-powered AI chatbots, autonomous AI agents became the next big thing. This past year, video generating models have been having their time in the Sun after rapid i

John Reid Campaign (Screenshots) You’ve probably heard of a “straw man,” a fallacy in which you misrepresent an opponent’s argument so it’s easier to refute. Put up a false impression of what they’re saying, and then knock ’em down. We all do it. But what we all probably don’t do is create a full-blown AI-generated deepfake of our opponent and then sincerely try to argue with it for nearly an hour. And we probably aren’t running for public office, either.

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images OpenAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging that the AI company is responsible for the death of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old in California who took his life after extensive conversations with ChatGPT about his suicidal ideation and intent to die. Part of OpenAI’s defense strategy, according to The Financial Times? Requesting that the family cough up details of the teen’s funeral. As the FT reports

Cheng Xin/Getty Images Earlier this week, OpenAI unveiled an AI browser, dubbed Atlas, which is built around its blockbuster AI product, ChatGPT. “A browser built with ChatGPT takes us closer to a true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals,” the company boasted in its announcement. Thanks to an “agent mode,” the browser can complete entire tasks, such as booking flights or buying groceries online, a process OpenAI eng