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Getty / Futurism Hallucinations have plagued OpenAI ever since it launched its blockbuster ChatGPT chatbot back in 2022. The propensity of large language models to sound both plausible and confident about outputs that are totally wrong continues to represent a major thorn in the sides of execs who claim the AI boom is both bigger and faster than the industrial revolution. The issue still haunts even the most sophisticated AI models today, a persistent issu

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief of the esteemed Wall Street Journal, just heaped praise on the sloplords drowning journalism in AI-generated dreck. In an email obtained by Semafor, Tucker congratulated a Fortune editor for being a likeminded individual embracing AI, and was so impressed by the magazine’s AI efforts that she forced her underlings to read about them. Last month, the WSJ re

Getty / Futurism It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: elementary students are losing cognitive skills, leading them to tank their exams. Harder to quantify — but impossible to miss if you’ve spent any time in school lately — is the situation unfolding across classrooms, where students from all layers of s

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Futurism Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on the strength of his ideas alone. Or at least that’s the image he’s managed to cultivate. A new exposé in the New Yorker paints a different portrait, and it’s substantially more vexing. Drawing on interviews with numer

Getty / Futurism Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses. The infamously sycophantic machines are driving many people into hypochondriac-like spirals, causing them to obsess over their health and convince themselves that they may suffer from deadly afflictions. 46-year-old George Mallon in Liverpool, England, told The Atlantic of how he spent hours everyday talking to ChatGPT after the preliminary results of a blood test sugg

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In a move that could be seen as either responsible AI development or an expertly-executed hype maneuver, Anthropic says its new Claude Mythos Preview model is so powerful that the company’s only releasing it to a select group of tech companies, since giving it out to the public would be too dangerous. (Where have we heard that one before?) In its system card, the Dario Amodei-led company

Getty / Futurism Users of Microsoft’s Windows have grown frustrated with the company’s insistence on stuffing its Copilot AI chatbot into almost every corner of the widely-used operating system, earning it the pejorative nickname of “Microslop.” That’s despite Microsoft admitting in its own Copilot terms of service that the AI shouldn’t be relied upon for virtually any important work. “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only,” the lengthy document reads

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: DNY59 / Getty Images Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A recent analysis conducted by the AI startup Oumi at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91 percent of the time. In a sense, that may sound like an impressive figure. Bu

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Al Drago / Getty Images Was AI used to produce a personal essay that wound up in the pages of the New York Times? The answer is complicated. The writer Kate Gilgan found herself at the center of a literary scandal last month when, on social media, another writer accused her of using AI to write an emotional first-person essay about the experience of losing custody of her young son at the height of her

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Last week, the New York Times published a rapturous profile of a drug marketing company called Medvi, which the paper declared to be the first one-ish man venture on track to surpass one billion dollars in revenue while leaning almost exclusively on AI to build and scale the business. The news was immediately met with a wave of online backlash over both the framing of the NYT piece and th

Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC Late last year, news emerged that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta would be shedding its open source roots to instead work on a closed model like the vast majority of its competitors. Now we’ve finally gotten a first glimpse of the fruit of its labor: Muse Spark, codenamed Avocado and developed by the company’s unbelievably expensive Superintelligence Labs. But there’s a big problem that could undermine its flashy new announcement. Despite in

Getty / Futurism Last week, the New York Times published a laudatory profile of a startup called Medvi, which is basically an AI-powered marketing wrapper for telehealth providers and compounding pharmacies that sells GLP-1 weight loss drugs. The twist, as the NYT reported, was that Medvi was started by just one guy, who still runs it with a skeleton crew; as such, the newspaper portrayed Medvi’s swift and lucrative rise as an AI-enabled success story, and

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images San Francisco police say they’ve arrested a suspect who allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then made threats outside the company’s headquarters. At around 3:43 am on Friday, officers responded to a report of a person throwing an incendiary weapon at the home of a CEO, San Francisco Chronicle reported, which was later identified as Altman’s. A suspect, whose identity

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As AI companies warn of mass automation and the end of work as we know it, ChatGPT maker OpenAI has published a sweeping policy paper outlining its vision of who should call the shots once “superintelligent AI” goes online. Beneath the paper’s flowery rhetoric is something familiar: a powerful corporation arguing that the best way to provide for the poorest people in the world is to let t

Getty / Futurism A new study by economists at Goldman Sachs has discovered something that should come as no surprise to most workers: losing your job to new technology can seriously mess up your life in ways that will cause ripples of hardship for a long time. It’s easy enough to follow the logic here. Losing your job in a capitalist system comes with notoriously crappy financial consequences, leading to both short- and long-term impacts while you scramble

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Since the onset of the AI chatbot boom, tech companies, insurance industry mouthpieces, and healthcare administrators have spun a yarn that introducing AI to healthcare is a surefire way to lower costs for patients. Mario Schlosser, co-founder and chief technical officer of the medical insurer Oscar Health, has stated that AI was the “only way” to reduce the cost of seeing a doctor in the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Huzzah! A mass psychosis inducing machine is making money out the wazoo by bombarding users with highly-targeted corporate messages. According to a new Axios scoop, OpenAI has already generated $100 million in annual recurring revenue from stuffing advertisements into ChatGPT in just two months, suggesting that its big bet on leveraging its users’ deeply personal conversations to offer hy

Getty / Futurism Last month, Axios was forced to issue a bizarre correction for a blog post about a growing maternal health crisis in the United States. The story quoted new poll findings by a company called Aaru, representing them as research based on the feedback of American adults. But according to an editor’s note, the piece had to be “updated to note that Aaru is an AI simulation research firm.” In other words, Axios had failed to disclose that it was

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Corporations are rapidly embracing AI to churn out mountains of code. Outwardly, this is presented as a revolution in productivity. But a behind the scenes look in The New York Times paints a slightly different, and somewhat comic, picture. Beleaguered programmers are being saddled with more code than what they know what to do with, while their employers struggle to find the best way to g

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images OpenAI is gearing up for a potential IPO later this year at a staggering valuation of up to $1 trillion — a meteoric rise from a mere $29 billion in January 2023, months after launching ChatGPT. Just under three and a half years after its watershed moment, OpenAI seems almost unrecognizable. This year, in particular, has been a rude awakening for the Sam Altman-led company, with a string of bad news and controversies raising so