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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If a stranger told you there’s a chance your Grandma could live forever, would you take it? It may seem like an odd question, but it’s one which AI company 2wai is staking its entire existence on. As spotted by The Independent, a recently released commercial for 2wai, titled “Preserve Your Legacy,” has gone viral, thanks to its depiction of a grandmother preserved as an AI avatar. “He’s g

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Disney / Getty Images Famous copyright tyrant Disney is now bending over for the AI industry and signing away its precious intellectual property. On Thursday, the entertainment conglomerate announced a new licensing agreement with OpenAI that will allow it to use Disney’s iconic characters and properties to generate clips on Sora, OpenAI’s video generating app that lets you deepfake friends and celebr

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’re one of the 28 percent of Americans who’ve shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, we might have some bad news. Freshly reported testimony from the Data Worker’s Inquiry — an international research initiative empowering gig workers to document their industries — revealed stunning details behind one of the fastest growing consumer niches in the AI sector. During a peri

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images Did Nick Park wake up and put on the wrong trousers this morning? In a recent interview with Radio Times, the creator of the beloved claymation series “Wallace and Gromit” said his animation studio, Aardman, would “embrace” AI — albeit in a “cautious” manner. “When ‘Toy Story’ came out [in 1995], we thought, ‘How long have we got?’ But we’ve managed to survive CGI,

SpaceX Artificial intelligence companies are planning on investing unbelievable sums — more than a trillion dollars per year by OpenAI alone — building out enormous data centers that consume copious amounts of electricity, generate pollution, and take up considerable amounts of room. They’ve also been blamed for negative impacts on local water supplies, and make a lot of noise, making them unpopular among nearby residents. Now, in a bid to scale up operati

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images OpenAI has long published research on the potential safety and economic impact of its own technology. Now, Wired reports that the Sam Altman-led company is becoming more “guarded” about publishing research that paints an inconvenient truth: that AI could be bad for the economy. The perceived censorship has become such a point of frustration that at least two OpenAI empl

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Does your online grocery order ever feel fishy, like the prices just aren’t adding up? It turns out you’re right to be suspicious — and now we have compelling evidence. New research by a consortium of groups including Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union have found evidence of a massive experiment being run on consumers by grocery delivery company Instacart.

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Earlier this week, the Washington Post announced that it would be launching “personalized” AI powered podcasts that would let users choose their own AI host to regale them on their choice of topics. And now for an entirely unsurprising update: the AI podcasts have turned out to be complete, error ridden disasters. Semafor reports that less than 48 hours after launching, the AI podcasts ha

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Anthropic’s chief scientist Jared Kaplan is making some grave predictions about humanity’s future with AI. The choice is ours, in his framing. For now, our fates are mostly in our hands, according to Kaplan — unless we decide to pass the proverbial baton to the machines, that is. Such a point is fast approaching, he says in a new interview with The Guardian. By 2030, Kaplan predicts, or a

Screenshots from AI-generated videos on Sora On Thursday, Disney announced a landmark partnership with OpenAI to license its iconic characters and properties to be used to generate clips on Sora, OpenAI’s video generating app, starting in 2026. It’s the first major licensing deal between OpenAI and a major Hollywood studio, and will include more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters. But consequential as it is, it’s simply putting the ru

Getty / Futurism Last week, when the Washington Post announced a new service that uses AI to generate podcasts, we immediately warned readers to brace for disaster. Just as expected, the service — dubbed “Your Personal Podcast” — turned out to be an error-laden disaster right from the jump. As Semafor reported on Friday, many staffers at the embattled newspaper were outraged at the AI inventing and misattributing quotes and misinterpreting basic facts, jus

Getty / Futurism The Grinch comes in many forms: greedy businessman, bosses that won’t give you the holidays off, and even Fox News hosts. Dagen McDowell, a co-host of the “The Big Money Show” on Fox Business, recently flaunted her zeal for AI — and her distaste for holiday cheer — by declaring that a beloved local Christmas tree farm should be sacrificed to make way for data center infrastructure. McDowell was defending a proposed plan for a 67-mile long

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Images Grok is giving some wildly contradictory takes on the tragic deaths of the legendary film director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in what’s the latest example of AI models bungling breaking news stories. On Sunday, the Reiner couple were found dead in their home in Los Angeles with multiple stab wounds. Their son, Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested and

Amazon Earlier this month, Amazon revealed a new feature that aims to use AI to recap its Prime Video shows. The tool, now deployed in beta form, generates everything from narration, dialogue, and music to summarize key plot points, allowing fans to quickly catch up on their favorite shows. At least, that was the idea. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the AI tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of a hit show, suffering from the common s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images They may be responsible for creating the AI tech that many fear will wipe out jobs — if not the entire human race — but at least they feel just as paranoid and miserable about where this is all going as the rest of us. At NeurIPS, one of the big AI research conferences, held this year at the San Diego Convention, visions of AI doom were clearly on the mind of many scientists in attendance

AI Generated Images via X AI misinformation isn’t just for the right-wing boomers anymore. What once was mostly the domain of Facebook-bound conservatives desperate to believe welfare recipients are scamming the system has also seeped into the other side of the partisan divide. Though research shows conservatives are much more likely to share misinformation than any other political persuasion, liberals seem to be playing catchup. Over the weekend, an AI-ge

Getty / Futurism The outcry sparked by the Washington Post’s launch of AI-generated podcasts has gone in one ear of the newspaper’s leadership and out the other, which isn’t too dissimilar to what might happen to anyone listening to the slop it’s trying to peddle. On Monday, the Jeff Bezos-owned publication doubled down on its personalized podcasts push, brushing aside the criticism from readers and its own reporters alike. “This is how products get built

Bruno de Carvalho/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images AI cloud computing company CoreWave exploded onto the scene in March with the biggest tech IPO since 2021. The company’s stock soared by more than 40 percent in the following days, riding on the coattails of immense hype surrounding generative AI. The hype was driven by insatiable AI companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta leasing hundreds of megawatts of compute as outfits like CoreWeave constr

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in damages. The suit alleges that the British broadcaster had produced a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump” in its Panorama documentary, which aired in the week leading up to the 2024 presidential election. More specifically, it accused the BBC of editing his i