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AI Generated Video via McDonald's Update: McDonald’s has issued a very strange response to the drama. Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to plop out new advertisements. There’s just one issue: pretty much everybody hates it. This year, McDonald’s decided to get in on the corporate slopfest with a 45-second Christmas spot cooked up for its Netherlands division by the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty At least Grok has its priorities straight: it would rather sacrifice droves of children instead of its creator, Elon Musk. On X, where the AI model is allowed to run wild and respond to all kinds of user inquiries, the notoriously badly-behaved bot was asked to answer a question in the style of the quiz show “Jeopardy!”. “As Tesla’s Al,” a user asked, “Gro

Win McNamee/Getty Images OpenAI has long made it its number one goal to realize artificial general intelligence, which it described in a 2023 blog post as “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans,” and which will benefit “all of humanity.” Since then, experts have often accused the company of repeatedly shifting the goalposts, greatly watering down its original goal of an AI truly capable of surpassing the intellect of a human being. And now, Ope

The Tonight Show OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted he needs extensive assistance from his company’s AI chatbot to get through life. During an interview last night with late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon, Altman argued that raising a child without constantly pestering a chatbot for life advice is now impossible — even though humans have managed just fine since the dawn of time without it. “I cannot imagine having gone through, figuring out how to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Ask just about any job seeker in the US how the labor market is doing, and you’re liable to get an earful. Months upon months of stale job growth have led to a “low-hire economy,” a situation where workers have little leverage over companies, resulting in low wage growth, a rise in freelance hires compared to full-time, and ever-worsening benefit packages. At the same time

Mariano Regidor/Redferns Acclaimed Australian prog rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made headlines earlier this year when it quit Spotify, protesting the platform’s CEO, Daniel Ek, who heavily invested in an AI weapons company. The band was one of several music acts to pull their music from Spotify over ethical concerns. Many of them have taken issue with artists earning very little money per stream on the platform, or the company donating a siza

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI is no longer just identifying suspected criminals from behind a camera; now it’s rendering photorealistic images of their mugs for cops to blast out on social media. Enter ChatGPT, the latest member of the Goodyear Police Department, located on the outskirts of Phoenix. New reporting by the Washington Post revealed that Goodyear cops are using the generative AI tool to pop out photos o

Getty / Futurism The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded by hosts and distributed digitally to entertain or bring listeners up to date on the news. But with the advent of AI, tech companies are keen to stomp the essence out of what makes the format so appealing in the first place: a human-to-human connection. As such, the Washington Post announced this week that it’s launching an AI-base

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fight a losing battle for our attention spans with all kinds of tech-enabled brainrot. Now, in a further assault to their sanity, AI models are generating so much slop that students and researchers keep coming into libraries and asking for journals, books, and records that don’t exist, Scientific American reports. In a statement from the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Alilo AI / Getty Images Last month, an AI-powered teddy bear from the company FoloToy ignited alarm and controversy after researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund caught it having wildly inappropriate conversations for young children, ranging from providing step-by-step instructions on how to light matches, to giving a crash course in sexual fetishes like bondage and teacher-student roleplay. The bac

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images McDonald’s has become corporate enemy number one after its hideous AI holiday commercial went viral across numerous social media platforms for all the wrong reasons. TBWA and The Sweetshop — the agency and production company behind the turd of an ad — have since tried to scrub it from the net, along with a bizarrely defensive statement by Sweetshop CEO, which is now unavailable. “For seve

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Time Magazine It may not surprise you that Time magazine has elected to highlight the AI industry in its annual “Person of the Year” issue. Or should we say persons: the collective billionaire “architects of AI,” it announced. But what may surprise you is a new feature prominently displayed on Time’s website: a window for an AI chatbot. “Ask me anything,” it reads. It does not go away. Instead, the ch

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT stoked a troubled man’s paranoid delusions, leading him to murder his elderly mother and then kill himself. The lawsuit was brought against OpenAI by the estate of Suzanne Eberson Adams, an 83-year-old woman in Greenwich, Connecticut who was murdered by her son, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg. As The Wall Street Journal first reported bac

Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to promise sequels to Predator, Conan the Barbarian, and Commando. Elijah Wood discusses his return as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Both Ryan Murphy’s The Beauty and Grotesquerie have reportedly been canceled after a single season. Snap me down, it’s Morning Spoilers! Godzilla x Kong: Supernova Deadline reports Jasmine Hottle, the sister of late actress Kaylee Hottle, will take over the role o

Apple’s Magic Mouse turns the front of the mouse into a touch-sensitive area, letting you quickly slide from page to page, scroll through large documents, and easily navigate your Mac with various finger motions. The Magic Mouse pairs with your Mac automatically, connects via Bluetooth, and now uses a USB-C connector for charging, so you can share the same cable as your MacBook, iPad, or iPhone. Apple says a single full charge provides about a month of ave

LEGO building sets make great holiday gifts and can also be a nice treat for yourself when you want to spend some quality time putting together your favorite characters. Once done, you can display your creations wherever you’d like! Now is also a great time to pick up the sets you’ve been eyeing. Amazon’s Black Friday sale kicks off in about a week, but early discounts are already slashing prices across items. Plenty of LEGO sets are sitting at their best

I’ve been using smart home products for something like a decade, ever since I bought my first house and discovered it had some very inconveniently placed light switches. Rather than reroute the wiring for those switches, I went the comparatively cheaper route of buying a handful of Philips Hue bulbs—the simple white ones, I ain’t rich—and a smart speaker to control them. I didn’t know at the time that this would turn into a hobby, but here I am. 2026 has p