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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, experts and executives have been predicting that it and other AI models will eliminate untold jobs — forecasts that seem, at a first glance, to have been borne out by the plethora of tech sector layoffs in the wake of its debut. But a new study from Yale University found quite the opposite in the United States, which should give

Getty / Futurism OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing what he does best: warning of AI-related doom that he doesn’t sound all that pressed about. Last week, while touring one of OpenAI’s mammoth data centers being built in Abilene, Texas, Altman had a pretty casual outlook when he was asked about a bubble that could financially decimate the entire industry. “Between the ten years we’ve already been operating and the many decades ahead of us, there will be booms

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images It’s becoming increasingly clear that OpenAI put staggeringly little thought into the rollout of Sora 2, its latest text-to-video generating app, a “move fast and break things” approach that has resulted in plenty of drama. Last week, the Sam Altman-led company released the TikTok-style app that churns out endless feeds of low-rent and mind-numbing AI slop. It’s an “unholy abomination” that intentionally encourages users to gen

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images More products, more problems. Behind the scenes, OpenAI is working on a new AI device in collaboration with the legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive. But according to the Financial Times, it’s running into some major technical issues that could delay its release — along with some more philosophical ones, too. The goal, per the reporting, is to make a palm-sized device

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The launch of OpenAI’s Sora 2 has been, at best, incredibly chaotic. When it rolled out last week, the company’s latest text-to-video generating app became an instant smash hit among fans who used it to churn out loads of delirious and edgy AI slop. Many of these videos feature recognizable characters like SpongeBob cooking meth, raising the obvious question of whether the AI company was

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s probably not a shock to you that the people leading the AI industry don’t have your best interests at heart. But what if we told you that some of them are actually pretty okay with humanity being subjugated, replaced, or wiped out, by the machines they’re creating? In an essay for the Wall Street Journal, author David A. Price calls the tech figures in this camp the “cheerful apocaly

@mannthatsreal/ @DrClownPhD via X OpenAI is capitalizing on bad taste with its new text-to-video generator, Sora 2. The new app allows users to share AI-generated videos on a TikTok-style feed. If you hoped that people would be using it to create great art, prepare to be disappointed — and nowhere is that failure clearer than in videos that resurrect sloppified versions of deceased celebrities. We’ve seen videos of Michael Jackson rapping, for instance, as

JasonBotterill3 via X It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s text-to-video-and-audio AI generator app, Sora 2, to melt down into a messy pile of potentially copyright-infringing AI slop. Within just days, the TikTok-style app’s mind-numbing feed of AI-generated content was filled with videos of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up blue crystals in a meth lab, entire episodes of South Park, and depictions of physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Macmillan Publishers / Getty Images If it were a “Black Mirror” episode it would be too on the nose. Renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” hasn’t even been out for a single day, and Amazon is already peddling AI-generated copycats. One was even listed days prior to the release of the genuine article, suggesting a well-timed effort to rip sales away from the author on the book’s

Avi Schiffmann via X / Futurism Last month, AI startup Friend launched an eyebrow-raising advertising campaign in the New York City subway, which drew a striking amount of hatred. The largely white billboards left a convenient amount of room for passersby to air their feelings about the privacy-infringing tech. As such, it didn’t take long for handwritten scribbles to cover the ads. “Befriend something alive,” one pen-wielding tagger wrote. “AI wouldn’t ca

Spencer Platt/Getty Images The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a “sudden correction” in global financial markets driven by the spending frenzy on artificial intelligence. As Reuters points out, it’s the institution’s clearest warning yet that we could be on the precipice of an AI disaster. “The risk of a sharp market correction has increased,” said the Bank of England’s financial policy committee during a Wednesday

Stefano Rellandini / AFP / Getty Images Many investors and financial experts are concerned that a looming AI bubble could wreak havoc on the economy — but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can’t wait for it to burst. During a tech conference in Italy last week, Bezos conceded that the AI industry is in a “kind of industrial bubble,” as CNBC reports. Besides companies’ valuations becoming “disconnected from the fundamentals” of a business, Bezos argued that “people

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images When talking about the giants dominating the AI game, people tend to consider OpenAI, the massive private company behind ChatGPT, or else Google’s Gemini, or perhaps Microsoft’s Copilot. In other words, no one really thinks about Elon Musk as an AI leader. Evidently, that’s a perception he’s hoping to change with the construction of an enormous computing complex in

Kevin Dietsch / Getty / Futurism OpenAI’s latest text-to-video generating app, Sora 2, exploded onto the scene late last week, quickly devolving into a mind-numbing mess of AI slop. Before OpenAI stemmed the flood with crudely implemented guardrails, users immediately started generating footage featuring copyrighted materials, from SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth to CEO Sam Altman grilling a photorealistic Pikachu. The spread of copyrighted material

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When your boss insists you to start using AI for your job, do you cave to their demands, or resist using the tech? The reality is that if you’re in a position where you have to ask, you may be doomed either way. We suggest you learn from the experience of Kevin Cantera, a man from Las Cruces, New Mexico, who “willingly embraced AI for work” after he and his colleagues were encouraged to u

Zillow / Google / Futurism In the age of generative AI, not all is what it seems. From photorealistic videos of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s head grotesquely poking out of a toilet to AI chatbots that can blaze through a Turing Test without raising suspicion, it’s never been harder to distinguish between reality and a fiction dreamed up by an AI. Still, some instances of AI use still stand out like a sore thumb. Take, for instance, this Zillow listing for a sin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The AI gold rush rages on. Multibillion dollar AI deals are being inked left and right between the heavyweights of the tech sector, dazzling us with awesome sums and promising that this revolutionary tech is just getting started. But there’s something very worrying about many of these deals: they’re often “circular,” as a slew of recent coverage has noted, meaning that AI companies are po

TikTok / Futurism OpenAI’s recent launch of its text-to-video AI generator app, Sora 2, has already led to an enormous tidal wave of AI slop hitting internet feeds. The company made the eyebrow-raising decision of putting deepfakes front and center of the app’s TikTok-like experience, inviting users to offer themselves up for “cameos” created by other users. “With cameos, you can drop yourself straight into any Sora scene with remarkable fidelity after a s

Photo by Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift, the queen mother of never taking a stance on anything that doesn’t directly impact her, has reversed course on AI — and her biggest fans are repulsed by that hypocrisy. In partnership with Google and as a part of promo for her twelfth studio album “The Life Of A Show Girl,” a multi-city scavenger hunt sent the pop star’s rabid fan base searching for orange doors with QR codes.

Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images for SDCCMalaga At this year’s New York Comic Con, DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee made a striking announcement: that the company will “not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork.” “Not now, not ever, as long as [SVP, general manager] Anne DePies and I are in charge,” he added, as quoted by The Verge. “People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic,” he added. “We recoil from what feels fake. That’s w