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Shutterstock / Futurism It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatbots for is cranking out smut. These prompts, though, are far from private. According to a new scoop from 404 Media, hundreds of human contractors who were hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI are reviewing users’ image editing prompts and the photos that they upload. And many of these workers say they’re being inundated with dark and sexually explicit requests. J

Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images/Futurism As tempers flared around AI data centers back in January, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith issued a warm and fuzzy blog post about “building community-first AI infrastructure.” Smiths’ essay outlined a five-point plan to “partner with local communities across the United States,” with action-items like paying “our way to ensure our data centers don’t increase your electricity prices” and creating “jobs for your resident

Shutterstock / Futurism If you work in a creative industry or media, you probably don’t need anybody to tell you how bad things have gotten. Still, even the most intimate first-hand knowledge can’t prepare you for the sheer scope of the devastation. As data journalist Joseph Politano found in a new Substack post, the US has lost more than 200,000 jobs in “creative” industries over the past four years — the period since the first version of ChatGPT became a

Shutterstock / Futurism For hunters trying to follow the law, it’s arguably never been harder to find a clear answer to the question, “when does hunting season officially begin?” The answer to that question is particularly obscure in Alaska, where hunters have to abide by a virtual catalog of conditional rules and regulations that vary wildly based on where in the Last Frontier one wants to hunt. As one woman learned the hard way, not even supposedly cutti

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns this week, picking up five years after season two. Sauron is that much closer to crafting the One Ring, but in the meantime, Middle-earth has become a battleground between his followers and his opponents. As season three begins, Númenor is one of the few realms remaining that has yet to declare a side. One reason for that is because Númenor is an island kingdom, so it’s viewing the rise of Sauron from a dis

Walk onto Avengers Campus at Disney’s California Adventure, and you never know who you might see. Iron Man could be posing for photos. Captain America and Black Panther could be watching from up high. And, a few times a day, Spider-Man will literally swing around before meeting his fans. And yet, even though they were introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe last year, the Fantastic Four had yet to appear in the park. Until now. Starting November 20,

The Amazon smart thermostat makes it easy to control your home’s temperature remotely from anywhere. Alexa can automatically adjust the temperature according to your preferences, plus minimize usage when the electricity isn’t clean. An early Black Friday deal has knocked 29% off this handy gadget, so instead of $80, you can grab it for $57 today. For bigger spaces that could use two of these, a 2-pack bundle is now $110, down from $160. You can save more w

More than 100 websites belonging to businesses large and small were hit by a hacking collective over the last couple of weeks, stealing data, credit card numbers, and cryptocurrency. Except the collective wasn’t a group of script kiddies, but just one person and their AI agents, according to Reuters, citing a recent report from cybersecurity firm NorForge. The report, published Monday, follows an unnamed Chinese-speaking hacker who allegedly outsourced alm

The city of Philadelphia, which solved engineering when it revealed the world’s largest t-shirt cannon more than a decade ago, seems to collectively believe that technology has gone too far and has banded together to stop it. A 78-year-old woman, whom some would call a hero, stepped in front of a delivery robot that could have been transporting weapons for the robot revolution (but probably just had a sandwich) and refused to let it move forward. According

What would you like your future job to be: building brains, or building brains to go into the products that your company ships? Choose wisely, especially if you’re in Germany, because according to a bizarre vision of the future just shared by the CEO of the world’s most valuable company, these two nonsensical options are the essence of some kind of dichotomy that companies—German companies at least—will soon face. Or something like that? Honestly it’s not

In what Reuters’ anonymously-sourced report assesses as an “unusually fast” fundraising strategy, OpenAI is apparently looking to past investors like SoftBank and Abu Dhabi’s MGX to inject it with fresh capital in order to climb to a potential valuation of $1.4 trillion or more. Anthropic has led OpenAI in valuation quite authoritatively since May of this year. Late last month, analysts were forecasting a $2 trillion IPO for Anthropic in November, but mone