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Getty / Futurism In an age when more and more young children are hooked on digital devices, YouTube is bombarding them with AI slop. After investigating over 1,000 YouTube shorts recommended to young children by the video platform, The New York Times found that the algorithm is heavily pushing AI-generated content that explicitly targets “toddlers” and “preschoolers.” On top of being nonsensical, the videos are often presented under the guise of being educ

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Depending on who you ask, AI was the financial growth story of 2025. In the first nine months of 2025, spending related to AI accounted for around 38 percent of real GDP growth across the United States, according to analysis by the St. Louis Fed. Not every economist agrees with that math, but the Trump administration has evidently seen enough to know where they stand. With AI just about o

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Businesses are learning the hard way that rapidly deploying AI tools — and forcing or strongly encouraging their employees to use them — can backfire severely. The latest appears to be Amazon — though one can debate whether it’s taking away the right lessons. On Tuesday, the Financial Times reports, the ecommerce giant summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting addressing recent out

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The mother of a girl who was horrifically wounded in a school shooting in Canada in February is suing OpenAI for not warning police about the killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, according to reports. Some eight months before the shooting in British Columbia, which killed eight people including the perpetrator and injured 25 others, OpenAI employees had already been aware of Van Rootselaar’s ala

Getty / Futurism The AI jobs apocalypse, long predicted by tech leaders and AI critics alike, has never felt closer. A major job market disruption has been rumored for years now, but given the latest swings on Wall Street and major layoffs roiling the tech industry, the alarm bells are starting to go off. It’s looking likely that not every profession will be hit in the same way, nor to the same extent — a topic that frontier AI companies have been studying

Getty Images Commercial satellite imagery captured last week shows the eerie devastation following the bombing of an Iranian elementary school. At least 175 people, including a large number of young schoolgirls, were killed in the attack. Haunting drone footage showed excavators digging dozens of graves for the victims. The airstrike, allegedly part of an offensive targeting an Iranian military complex nearby, provided a grotesque example of the horrors un

Particle6 Late last year, video production company Particle6 triggered near-universal backlash when it unveiled its so-called “AI actress” dubbed “Tilly Norwood.” The timing of the announcement couldn’t have been worse, as some of the biggest names in Hollywood had been publicly and strongly denouncing the use of AI in filmmaking. The innocent-faced avatar, which The Verge previously lambasted as a “gen AI psyop,” perfectly played into the fears of those w

Getty / Futurism Grammarly infuriated journalists, authors, and academics with its “Expert Review” feature, which impersonated writers — both dead and alive — without their permission. In Grammar’s telling, the tool allows users to “take your writing to the next level” by making suggestions inspired by “leading professionals, authors, and subject-matter experts.” The feature, which was only accessible beyond a free trial via the company’s $12-a-month Pro s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Character.AI continues to host chatbots that are explicitly modeled after real-world mass shooters. A new analysis published today by CNN and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that most mainstream chatbots are “typically willing” to assist users in orchestrating violent attacks ranging from religious bombings to school shootings, happily helping test users identify targe

Getty / Futurism More and more research shows that introducing AI in the workplace is actually forcing employees to work harder, instead of making their jobs easier. The latest comes from a new analysis from ActivTrak of over 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. After examining their activity 180 days before and after the employees started using AI at work, the software company found that AI “intensified” their jobs in nearly every category, the Wall St

Alex Broadway/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Grammarly’s “Expert Review” feature, which was quietly rolled out last year, angered countless journalists, authors, and academics, who found that they were being impersonated without their permission. Following an enormous backlash — and telling people being impersonated that they should email the company to opt out — Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman, made a sudden reversal. In a Wednesday Lin

JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images Anti-AI sentiment surged over the last year as the hype surrounding the tech showed no signs of slowing down. Industry’s obsession with the tech has driven up electricity bills, been used to justify mass layoffs, and even helped the US military determine where to drop bombs on Iran. It’s also quickly become an insufferable and practically inescapable part of everyday life, minting plenty of critics who range from averag

Screenshots via TikTok Women crashing through glass bridges. Cat parents grinding their children into mincemeat. Poor people rioting in Walmart. Whichever way you look, the internet is clearly drowning in AI slop — and the tide just keeps coming in. The latest AI slop fad strangling the web is a series of videos with a bizarre fixation on traumatized food. In keeping with the grand tradition of AI garbage, the premise is incredibly unhinged: families of an

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Davidoff Studios / Getty Images Even as scrutiny of the Epstein files reaches a fever pitch, the controversial AI platform Character.AI is hosting chatbots based on the prolific sex criminal, as well as his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and “Epstein Island” roleplays. The accounts aren’t hidden. Simple keyword searches for “Epstein” and “Ghislaine Maxwell” revealed more than a dozen different bots dedi

Carlos Gonzalez/Rolling Stone via Getty Images For years now, large language model-based chatbots have lured users into intimate relationships — romantic affairs enabled by tech that’s surprisingly adept at tapping into your psyche with a sycophantic tone that can be irresistible. On one end of the extreme, things can spiral into danger when conversations with an AI partner go off the rails. Researchers also warn that AI companionship can lead to people fe

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Besides headlines about the majority of original cofounders fleeing the company, Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has struggled to gain much media attention as of late — particularly as competitor Anthropic’s high-profile spat with the Pentagon continues to develop. The Grok chatbot maker, which has been reeling from a flood of deepfake smut and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) following a “pivot to porn,” continues to grapple for re

Futurism In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staff that the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon. In the memo, which was published roughly two months after OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, Peretti said BuzzFeed would be using the software to enhance the company’s infamous quizzes by generating personalized responses. The company’s stock price j

Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images In a Thursday tweet, Elon Musk said he was looking to rebuild his AI startup xAI “from the foundations up” after admitting it wasn’t “built right first time around.” The news comes amid a major exodus of cofounders, with a striking majority of them jumping ship over the last year. Amid the resulting leadership vacuum, the Financial Times reported on Friday that Musk had omitted a key detail in his latest missives on his

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Image Professors are fighting an uphill battle against the intrusion of AI into education, and it’s forcing them to rethink how they instruct their students, many of whom have already become hopelessly dependent on the tech. “It’s driving so many of us up the wall,” one told The Guardian in a new piece that interviewed more than a dozen professors in the humanities. “I now talk about AI with my

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images From the guy who bragged that he chats with “real Nazis” and mused about how legalizing war crimes would be good for his bottom line comes another zinger that will have you yearn for the days when CEOs acted more like cautious bureaucrats than ‘roided out pro wrestlers. In a CNBC interview Thursday, Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp opined that AI will undermine t