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Getty / Futurism Earlier this month, OpenAI launched Sora 2, a text-to-video generating app designed to churn out AI-generated videos. The app has become ground zero of copyright-infringing clips, from SpongeBob SquarePants taking a bong rip and sipping codeine to Scooby-Doo getting caught speeding on a highway. OpenAI responded with some sloppily-implemented guardrails, which were initially met with exasperation — until, that is, mischief-makers realized

Sora / Futurism It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s new text-to-video app, Sora 2, to devolve into a tasteless deluge of AI slop. Besides blatantly copyright-infringing videos of SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up blue crystals or entire episodes of South Park, users found that it’s never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities to mock them years or decades after their deaths. It’s a disappointing n

Bettman / Getty Images / Futurism OpenAI was seemingly caught off guard by the controversy stemming from its new text-to-video app, Sora 2, as it rapidly became the number one place for tasteless videos of deceased celebrities being mercilessly mocked. From videos of famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who passed away seven years ago, being punched bloody by a UFC fighter, to Elvis Presley collapsing on stage and loudly passing gas, Sora has quick

AI Generated Videos (Screenshots) The US government shutdown has officially reached a month in length, the second longest federal funding gap on record. That makes it a perfect storm for the chaos-fueled Trump administration, which now has a de facto kill switch that Elon Musk’s DOGE couldn’t even dream of. As the shutdown drags on, it’s wreaking havoc on the nation, leaving millions of government workers without pay. As a consequence, the US is suffering

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP via Getty Images After Sora 2 was used to relentlessly churn out depictions of Japanese anime and video game characters, the creators of those characters are striking back. On October 28, a group representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and other major Japanese publishers submitted a written request to OpenAI demanding that it stop using their copyrighted content to

Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard’s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The song, titled “Walk My Walk,” by a fictional group called Breaking Rust, tells an incredibly generic story about a man who has “been beat down” and got “mud on my jeans,” yet perseveres through it all. The song was accompanied by an AI slo

In recent times, video generative models have emerged as a focal point of attention, unlocking a realm of fresh creative opportunities. Despite this, the velocity of these models remains a significant obstacle to their broader adoption. State-of-the-art generative models, while impressive in their capabilities, are hampered by sluggishness and computational demands due to their iterative diffusion processes. To address this issue, in a new paper AnimateDif

AI Generated Video (Screenshots). Source: Instagram; TikTok; YouTube Earlier this year, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos bragged that generative AI is going to open the way for a paradigm shift in the way humans create art. “We’re confident that AI is going to help us and help our creative partners tell stories better, faster and in new ways — we’re all in on that,” he told CNBC in an interview. That might sound well and good in the board room. But here in the rea

Roblox / Futurism A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the widespread use of generative AI in the industry by claiming that “Gen Z loves AI slop.” In a recent tweet, interactive video game company Genvid CEO and former Square Enix director Jacob Navok said that “for all the anti-AI sentiment we’re seeing in various articles, it appears consumers generally do not care.” Navok pointed to the “biggest game of the year,” called “Steal

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mike Coppola / Getty Images for Samsung Steam, the video game storefront used by over a hundred million gamers every month, requires that developers disclose if their products use AI-generated content. Someone at Valve, however, apparently forgot to ask Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney if he’d be okay with this policy first. In a discussion on social media, Sweeney — whose company makes the megahit game For

To bring the vision of robot manipulators assisting with everyday activities in cluttered environments like living rooms, offices, and kitchens closer to reality, it’s essential to create robot policies that can generalize to new tasks in unfamiliar settings. In a new paper Gen2Act: Human Video Generation in Novel Scenarios enables Generalizable Robot Manipulation, a research team from Google DeepMind, Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University pre

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,

Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.04831 Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks. Whether you're writing Shakespearean sonnets, debugging code, or need an answer to an obscure trivia question, artificial intelligence (AI) systems seem to have you covered. The source of this versatility? Billions or even trillions of textual data poi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Grok, the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-founded AI venture xAI and infused into X-formerly-Twitter — a platform also owned by Elon Musk — continues to be used by trollish misogynists, pedophiles, and other freaks of the digital gutters to non-consensually undress images of women and, even more horrifyingly, underage girls. The women and girls targeted in these

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images It was only yesterday that Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had acquired his AI company xAI, a merger that catapulted the rocket maker into being the most valuable private company in the world, but raised significant questions about bringing two firms with vastly different missions under the same wing. Now, the freshly-joined entity is facing one of its first maj

Published on February 19, 2026 at 08:02 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Google After generating images and videos, why not now tackle music? The Gemini app and its web version can now «create» 30-second songs from a simple text query. Including in French. Gemini is now capable of generating 30-second songs from a prompt. Just type what comes to mind, optionally indicate a music style (reggae, opera, electro, metal...), and let the bot do its job, in French, English,

Published on March 17, 2026 at 16:31 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Nvidia After conquering terrestrial data centers with its GPUs, Nvidia wants to enter a much larger playing field: space! The semiconductor giant has presented several new products to equip satellites and future (?) orbital data centers. « Space computing, the ultimate frontier, is now a reality », assures Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia who has presented several new products designed to operate in o

Marc Piasecki/Getty Images On paper, Elon Musk’s xAI is gearing up for a big year. After being folded into Musk’s SpaceX, the Grok maker could now be involved in one of the biggest — if not the biggest — IPO in history later this year. Despite plenty of optimism and an enormous wealth of unlocked funding, a striking number of the company’s cofounders are now jumping ship. As CNBC reports, the company lost two of its cofounders in just two days, only the la

Dr. Dre, the pioneering rapper and seven-time Grammy-winning producer behind hit songs like Tupac’s “California Love” and Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady,” is very much pro using artificial intelligence tools to make music. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr. Dre and Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine spoke about artificial intelligence’s recent foray into music production, with the producer characterizing those who oppose AI song generation

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Artificial intelligence is a matter of design — not destiny. That's the message from ten philanthropic foundations aiming to loosen the grip that the technology's moneyed developers, fueled by an investing frenzy, hold over its evolution. Launched Tuesday under the name Humanity AI, the coalition