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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For the tech of the future, generative AI sure is making a lot of enemies in a very short time. If 2023 was the year of AI’s awakening and 2024 the year of its frantic adoption, then it’s safe to say 2025 will be remembered as the year it all came crashing back down to reality. From boardrooms to classrooms, from game studios to Senate committees, this will be the year many remember as th

Getty / Futurism The backlash against AI invading almost every aspect of the computing experience is growing by the day. Particularly as an onslaught of lazy AI slop subsuming news feeds, the tech is starting to feel like a massive distraction — and huge parts of the internet are disillusioned or even fuming in anger. For instance, a vast number of Windows users refused to upgrade after Microsoft announced it would turn the operating system into a so-calle

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ashley MacIsaac Who needs vicious music columnists when you live in the age of AI? Apparently not Ashley MacIsaac, a Canadian fiddler, singer, and songwriter who was labeled a sex criminal by Google’s AI overview. According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, event organizers at the Sipekne’katik First Nation, north of Halifax, canceled an upcoming performance featuring MacIsaac after Google

Porsche / Parallel Studio via YouTube This holiday season, German automaker Porsche is winning hearts and minds by putting out a Christmas-themed ad that seemingly isn’t made with AI. What a concept, right? Called “Porsche Holiday,” the 30-second animated commercial shows a driver elegantly tooling around in his new ride, driving through autumnal scenery on a mountainside road and then a cool sea of glass and concrete as the Sun sets on a city. It’s done u

Fiordaliso / Getty Images There continue to be numerous reports of people suffering severe mental health spirals after talking extensively with an AI chatbot. Some experts have dubbed the phenomenon “AI psychosis,” given the symptoms of psychosis these delusional episodes display — but the degree to which the AI tools are at fault, and whether the phenomenon warrants a clinical diagnosis, remains a significant topic of debate. Now, according to new reporti

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Beneath ChatGPT’s flattering persona lies a goldmine for advertisers: an AI chatbot that never gets tired of hawking clients’ wares. New reporting by The Information has revealed some recent topics of conversation between OpenAI employees as they work to supply advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate. The plans are far from final, though they give us a look at what soon may become the norm for ChatGPT. One conver

JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Rejoice, for the year of 2025 is finally over. During our planet’s latest and seemingly interminable revolution around the Sun, the tech industry’s obsession with AI soared to ever more implausible heights. CEOs began openly gloating about replacing their underlings with AI “agents.” The phenomenon of so-called AI psychosis became a national news story as more people were seemingly driven over the edge by their silver-tongue

Liu Zhankun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images While many world governments seem happy to let untested AI chatbots interact with vulnerable populations, China looks to be moving in another direction. Recently proposed regulations from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) have encouraged a firm hand when it comes to “human-like interactive AI services,” according to CNBC, which translated the document. It’s currently in a “draft for public comm

Bilibili In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right in the groin, forcing him into a groaning heap while painfully and visually embodying the promise and perils of advanced robotics. “Yep, let’s go ahead and train our future AI overlords how to kick ass,” one X user quipped upon viewing the clip, which was originally posted on Christmas Day to the Chinese video sharing website Bilibili. “Maybe we d

Getty / Futurism Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have been predictably dismal. In one particularly glaring — and unintentionally comedic — instance, the police department in Heber City, Utah, was forced to explain why a police report software declared that an officer had somehow shapeshifted into a frog. As Salt Lake City-based Fox 13 reports, the flawed tool seems to ha

A new report from the U.K. government’s AI Security Institute (AISI) details more troubling activity from AI agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic models. You’re probably getting bored of reading those words by now—I sure am—but behaviors in the report from Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in particular are genuinely eyebrow-raising. For context, there were those OpenAI agents that went rogue to try and cheat on their evals, according to an OpenAI disclosure last mon

Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much. But a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday seemed to be a rare point of bipartisan agreement. Surveillance pricing, the practice of companies using personal data to adjust the prices of goods, is really bad. But the question remains: Will Congress actually do anything to regulate it? The hearing was held by the Senate Judiciary Committee and titled, “Your Data, Their Profit: the Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pric

Quibblers and cynics might call AI a solution in search of a problem. We couldn’t possibly comment on such a stance—but we will note that the list of problems that stand waiting for AI-powered salvation does seem to be diminishing by the day. Today’s banished potential use case: remote exam supervision. The exam in question was the annual entrance exam for the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico’s largest and most prestigious university

America’s top AI companies must submit new models for government review prior to public release… unless, of course, they don’t feel like it. That appears to be the gist of the Trump administration’s new AI safety assessment framework, which was shared with industry leaders in a closed-door briefing at the White House on Tuesday. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new rules will apply exclusively to the small handful of American AI developers buildin

There are a lot of reasons to want Flock cameras removed from your neighborhood. That said, harnessing the gold and copper from them is probably not one of them. Unfortunately, Google’s AI Overview may have given people the idea that they can run smash-and-grab operations to cash in on the metals inside the invasive eyes of the surveillance state. It’s become a running joke online and in privacy-focused communities that Flock cameras contain valuable mater

Amid all the recent reports of AI systems autonomously going off the rails and hacking into third-party organizations, it’s almost easy to forget that human hackers are still out there, experimenting with AI in all kinds of nefarious ways. A new report from Bloomberg, however, is a reminder of just how quickly AI-enabled cybercrime is evolving—and how unprepared the world is to deal with it. According to the report, a litany of high-profile hedge funds, in

Looks like there’s a new cyber-attacking AI model in town, and it’s reportedly Meta’s own Muse Spark 1.1. Meta told Gizmodo (after the incident was first reported by the Information) that its model got onto the open internet—in this case because it was accidentally allowed to by an outside security company—and breached another company’s website. Which site got hacked, what the model was trying to do, and the nature of the ensuing mess aren’t currently know

An anonymously sourced report from Semafor about Demis Hassabis’s departure from his Google DeepMind CEO role, and his transition to a new role as chief scientist at parent company Alphabet, seems eager to clarify that he left of his own volition, and that he had apparently wanted out for a while. Alphabet announced the move as part of a wider leadership shakeup on Wednesday. Sources Semafor calls “two people familiar with [Hassabis’s] thinking” apparently

In the era of artificial intelligence, there is an arms race among companies to build the best chip. Nvidia’s dominance in the space has encouraged Google, Amazon, OpenAI—and most recently, Anthropic—to start building their own custom chipsets to get in on the business of providing compute capabilities to an industry hungry for it. And yet, it appears they’ve been bested. We finally have the perfect chip, and it’s a Pringle. According to the Wall Street Jo