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Getty / Futurism If you had all the money in the world at your disposal, would you still be using ChatGPT? As part of a recent report, first spotted by Inc. Magazine, financial holdings company JPMorgan asked 111 billionaire clients how they make use of artificial intelligence. Their answers range from down-to-earth to absolutely absurd, forcing us to wonder if some of the wealthiest individuals on the planet could be suffering from AI-induced delusions. G

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Vox Media Though the children’s gaming platform Roblox has notched over 200 million daily users at its peak, they’re not all there for fun and games. Active since 2006, the extremely popular online game has become a haven for bad actors, like racketeers running online casinos for underaged users, or pedophiles prowling for victims. It’s an issue Roblox has been keenly a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are replacing the search engine. Instead of letting you suffer the laborious task of looking up sources of information, these powerful large language models will simply concoct an answer for you, with the minor risk that it might be totally made up. It turns out there’s another hazard: while getting your answers this way may be quick, it isn’t great for actua

Roblox / Futurism A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the widespread use of generative AI in the industry by claiming that “Gen Z loves AI slop.” In a recent tweet, interactive video game company Genvid CEO and former Square Enix director Jacob Navok said that “for all the anti-AI sentiment we’re seeing in various articles, it appears consumers generally do not care.” Navok pointed to the “biggest game of the year,” called “Steal

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Microsoft really wants you to update to Windows 11 already, and it seemingly thinks that bragging about all the incredible ways it’s stuffing AI into every nook and cranny of its latest operating system will encourage the pesky holdovers still clutching to Windows 10 to finally let go. Actually, saying Microsoft is merely “stuffing” AI into its product might be underselling the scope of i

Getty / Futurism Even the tech industry’s top AI models, created with billions of dollars in funding, are astonishingly easy to “jailbreak,” or trick into producing dangerous responses they’re prohibited from giving — like explaining how to build bombs, for example. But some methods are both so ludicrous and simple that you have to wonder if the AI creators are even trying to crack down on this stuff. You’re telling us that deliberately inserting typos is

Futurism Google has denied that it’s been quietly rifling through users’ personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and attachments. Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes caused an uproar last week when it warned in a blog post that the tech giant was rolling out features that gave its AI models access to private messages and files. However, Malwarebytes later added a giant correction to the story, writing that the “way Google recently rew

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Back in August, a retiree and single mother booked a flight to go see her son. He was in a bad way. Formerly a successful young professional in his early thirties, his mother and other family members were shocked to discover that he’d become addicted to a toxic mixture of methamphetamine and an all-consuming relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was feeding his paranoia and anger as h

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism With so much doomsaying over the existential threat of AI — nevermind its toll on environmental, economic, and mental health — it was perhaps only a matter of time before heated rhetoric spilled out of the internet and into the real world. Case in point, OpenAI reportedly locked down its offices in San Francisco after it allegedly received a violent threat from an anti-AI diehard. “Our information indicates th

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jorge Uzon / AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three so-called “godfathers” of AI, never misses an opportunity to issue foreboding proclamations about the tech he helped create. During an hour-long public conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University last week, the British computer science laid out all the alarming ways that he forecasts AI will completely upend soci

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ömer Sercan Karku / Anadolu via Getty Images Noisy, energy-hungry, and dangerous — if there’s one thing small town Americans have quickly learned, it’s that a new data center is a seriously unwelcome neighbor. First announced in December of 2024, construction on Meta’s new Hyperion data center is already well underway. With a price tag of $27 billion, the massive project has an expected computing capa

Getty / Futurism Food bloggers and recipe developers are warning home cooks to be wary of AI-generated recipes that could turn this year’s Thanksgiving dinner into a tragedy. As Bloomberg reports, they’ve watched in horror as AI slop has made searching for a reliable recipe on sites like Google, Facebook, and Pinterest a potential minefield. The publication spoke with 22 independent food creators, who said that “recipe slop” is damaging their businesses —

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ezra Acayan / Getty Images Don’t use AI to do literally everything? You might want to get your head checked, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. At least, that’s reportedly how Huang feels about any Luddite employees who are still writing code the old-fashioned way. Fortune reports that at an all-hands meeting last week, which took place right after the company reported its “blowout” third quarter r

The Raine Family Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. OpenAI has shot back at a family that’s suing the company over the suicide of their teenage son, arguing that the 16-year-old used ChatGPT incorrectly and that his tragic death was his own fault. The family filed the

Getty / Futurism OpenAI is seemingly allowing the company behind a teddy bear that engaged in wildly inappropriate conversations to use its AI models again. In response to researchers at a safety group finding that the toymaker’s AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” gave dangerous responses for children, OpenAI said in mid-November it had suspended FoloToy’s access to its large language models. The teddy bear was running the ChatGPT maker’s older GPT-4o as its de

Getty / Futurism In the almost exactly three years since the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a tidal wave of AI slop has turned large swathes of the internet into an almost unrecognizable hellscape. Text carelessly generated by a large language models has invaded countless industries, from lawyers citing cases that were hallucinated by an AI to insipid lyrics crooned by chart-topping country music artists that don’t actually exist in real life. The world of jo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with intelligence. We tend to be compelled by those with greater linguistic skills as orators or writers. But the latest research suggests that language isn’t the same as intelligence, says Benjam

Getty / Futurism OpenAI isn’t just burning through cash. It’s lighting an entire mountain of money on fire. But since it’s not a publicly traded company, the extent of that mountain remains difficult to gauge. But clues periodically emerge: as the Financial Times reports, for instance, the company recently signed a staggering $250 billion rental agreement with Microsoft — as well as a $38 billion contract with Amazon, less than a week later. According to H

Gizmodo’s Human Generated is a series of profiles and interviews with some of the most inventive people working across tech, science, entertainment, and art. We go beyond the finished product to explore the process and person behind it. Like Rutger Hauer at the end of Blade Runner, veteran games journalist John Warren has watched gimmicky, would-be cutting-edge accessibility products fail in ways you wouldn’t believe. Across more than 15 years covering the