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Getty / Futurism The use of generative AI for creative purposes has spawned a major countermovement. From game developers reeling from a wave of criticism for using the tech to artists staging mass protests against AI, the backlash against what’s being hailed as a technological revolution grew massively last year. In a startlingly literal example of this growing fury, a University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student was detained after ripping “artwor

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI models are being unleashed into schools across the world, in a massive experiment on kids with uncertain results. Now, fresh research provides a clue about the tech’s effects on children’s education, and it’s not promising. According to a new study from Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education, AI poses profound risks to children’s social and intellectual development — an

Getty / Futurism The advent of generative AI has turned much of the internet into an unrecognizable flood plain of mind-numbing slop. In the latest sign of the times, the Economic Times — the second most widely-read English-language newspaper in the world, as of 2012 — picked the word “Kafkaesque” as its “Word of the Day” earlier this week. But even the briefest glance at the accompanying illustration reveals that the piece involved little, if any, human o

AI companies have already scraped much of the public internet to train their models. Now Amazon is turning to Twitch streamers. Twitch announced Wednesday that it is adding a new account setting that allows users to opt out of having content from their channels used to train parent company Amazon’s generative AI models. The catch is the the setting is turned on by default. “Generative AI content models are AI tools that can help create or synthesize conten

Examples of AI art exhibitions. Credit: Retos (2025). DOI: 10.17163/ret.n29.2025.01 Artificial intelligence is transforming the creative process. AI can not only generate complex texts, high-quality images, and videos in just a few minutes. It can also support creative thinking and act as a research tool in the stages prior to artistic production. However, its adoption also raises ethical concerns around issues such as originality, authorship, ownership, a

Overview of designing therapeutic mRNAs with GEMORNA. Credit: bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.20.599727 Raina Biosciences Inc. (Raina), an mRNA technology and therapeutics company, has released data from its generative AI platform in Science. The data supports Raina's pioneering approach to mRNA design using its GEMORNA platform to generate novel sequences with superior drug properties over existing mRNA discovery methods. Founded by a team with deep RNA ther

Getty / Futurism Last week, a University of Alaska, Fairbanks undergraduate student was detained by police after ripping off pieces of AI-generated art that were hung up at a student art exhibit — and chewing them up in protest. As the school’s student newspaper The Sun Star reported, undergraduate student Graham Granger was arrested for criminal mischief after masticating at least 57 of the 160 images that had been carefully arranged by fine arts student

Elizabeth Landers / Kudu via UCLA The professor behind an AI-generated textbook says that her error-ridden experiment was actually a resounding success. Designed for a comparative literature course on medieval and Renaissance-era writing and announced by UCLA at the end of 2024, the digital textbook was immediately met with widespread mockery and derision from educators. Its AI-generated cover was riddled with incomprehensible text — “Of Nerniacular Latin

Credit: Educational Psychology Review (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10039-x Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Most people probably recognize that by now. But there is still skepticism about the use of AI in many areas. One of them is education. This may bring to mind students using generative AI tools that can answer all kinds of questions and practically write finished assignments. This can lead to concerns about a lack of learning and challenges

What are sales PoC tools and why are they important?A modern sales PoC bridges the gap between “what’s promised” and “what’s possible.” AI-powered PoC tools do more than just show off product features – they learn from prospect interactions, customise demo flows in real time, and deliver insights that traditional approaches simply can’t match.Why is AI now non-negotiable for sales PoC in 2025?In 2025, several trends have made PoC tools indispensable in B2B

Automate operations and cut costsAutomation suites like Zapier AI and Make fold into online shop tools, email platforms, and marketing systems. These let founders set up triggers for actions. For example, a new order in the store can start a workflow: send a confirmation, log the sale, and update inventory. The owner does not need to touch anything. This reduces manual work, speeds up tasks, and can lower costs.Email marketing and analytics also work bette

Published on February 19, 2026 at 14:20 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Microsoft It's difficult to place full trust in generative AI when it goes snooping through folders that are specifically forbidden to it. Microsoft, despite being expected to address security concerns around its tools, allowed Copilot to summarize emails it should never have accessed. The issue has since been fixed. Oops. Microsoft confirmed that Copilot had been summarizing confidential emails

Published on March 2, 2026 at 10:11 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Steven Abraham (Unsplash) Anthropic has chosen to say no to the Pentagon. Following an unprecedented showdown between an AI startup and the Trump administration, Claude will no longer be used by the armed forces. To replace Claude, the Ministry of Defense negotiated an agreement with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Anthropic says no to the U.S. military. The startup behind Claude decided to ban the

Published on March 5, 2026 at 15:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Apple Music relies on the goodwill of the music industry to signal the presence of generative AI in musical works. A tag system has been set up by the platform, it is optional and Apple does not verify the actual presence of AI in the songs. A drop in the bucket? In the face of the increasingly pervasive presence of songs generated (in whole or in part) by generative AI in the catalogs of stream

Published on March 10, 2026 at 16:12 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net Generative AI is amazing... until it isn't anymore. Amazon, whose infrastructure maintenance is partly managed by AI, has experienced several outages in recent weeks. The group will monitor the AI more closely, with the help of its human engineers. Amazon justified a large part of its recent layoffs (16,000 in January!) by the use of generative AI. It's nice to replace humans with machines, but

@geolin878Which companies are more suitable to bring GEO back in-house?geoSEOAI0Posted at 2026-11-12First, let me give you a judgment: GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) eventually tends to be brought back in-house by companies. Not because outsourcing is too expensive. But because it's not suitable for long-term full outsourcing. This statement may contradict some peers' interests, but I still want to clarify it. One, all marketing capabilities have gon

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images By the time the public harassment started, a woman told Futurism, she was already living in a nightmare. For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related t

Bright MLS The real estate industry has seized on generative AI with a passion. Realtors have made extensive use of the tech, manipulating photos of properties beyond recognition by giving facades and interiors a heavy coat of AI-generated paint. Text descriptions of properties have turned into a heap of ChatGPT-generated buzzwords, devolving an already frustrating house hunt into a genuinely exasperating experience. Making sense of what a rental apartment

Futurism Anthropic aired a spicy ad during this year’s Super Bowl, skewering competitor OpenAI’s decision to cram ChatGPT with ads for users who don’t pay for a subscription. “Ads are coming to AI,” the ad’s tagline reads. “But not to Claude.” The marketing campaign appeared to hit a nerve, sending OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — who called ads a “last resort” a mere two years ago — into a tailspin in which he accused Anthropic of “doublespeak.” Needless to say, i

Shokunin Studio Is Hollywood “cooked”? Do video generating AI models mean its “over” for filmmakers? The jury’s out on that. But according to one Hollywood insider, the whole industry is “lying” about how much AI they’re using. “The thing with AI right now in Hollywood: Everyone’s lying just a little bit,” Janice Min, a former editor of Hollywood Reporter and CEO of cinema industry media group Ankler Media, told Business Insider in a new interview. “Studio