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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged by hospitality companies to meet or even exceed customers' expectations, according to a framework proposed by researchers in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management. The research team used the gap model, which explores ways to improve customer service, to provide a framework for how the hospitality industry can apply AI in balance with needs like catalyzing efficiency,

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Mark Valorian via X / Futurism Real estate sites are filling up with glaringly AI-altered images that dress up run-down properties as being in much better shape than they actually are. Landlords are using AI to populate rooms with nonexistent furniture, move walls around, dream up imaginary facades, rooflines, and landscaping, and brighten up rooms that are in reality devoid of sunlight. Case in point, a Zillow listing recently identified by children’s boo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop writing their own essays? According to new research from the Pew Research Center, the number of kids automating school assignments is now staggering. At this point, 57 percent of kids are using chatbots to search for information, while 54 percent say they use AI for “help with h

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Researchers, teachers, and mental health professionals alike have spent the past few years reeling as teens and young adults exported their brains to AI chatbots — so it should come as no surprise they’re now using the tech as a crutch to sidestep hard conversations they don’t want to have. New reporting by CNN details the troubling rise of young people using AI models like ChatGPT to ste

Getty / Futurism What would you do if you found out a for-profit AI assistant had been trained on your work — and was using your name — without your permission? The company formerly known as Grammarly, Superhuman, has forced many writers to ask that precise question. Last August, it quietly debuted a feature called “Expert Review,” through which users could get feedback on their writing from what the company styled as AI clones of professional writers. The

gabefacts187 via TikTok For many decades, conspiracy theorists have attempted to argue that NASA’s missions to the lunar surface were somehow faked — and the space agency’s latest trip around the Moon and back is no different. Except this time, the widespread proliferation of AI slop is supercharging the trend, with denialists pointing to faked, AI-generated footage as “proof” of their claims with no apparent sense of irony. One particularly sticky video s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and higher case closure rates. The rising number of wrongful arrests attributed to AI facial recognition systems, however, tells another story: that speed and accuracy are two entirely different things. But while false arrests due to facial recognition software can eas

Adam Lyttle via X Behold the final boss of tech-brained overprotective dads. Worried about his son talking to strangers on Roblox, he used AI to create a clone of the game so he could construct a false reality where all the players his son talks to are AI — without telling the poor kid. “I vibecoded a safer Roblox for my son,” began the dad, Adam Lyttle, in a now viral post on X. “The game is populated with recordings of other play throughs (giving the ill

Shutterstock The use of AI chatbots has invaded almost every profession. From lawyers getting caught citing hallucinated cases and major consulting firms generating nonsensical reports to teachers using AI to revise likely AI-generated essays from students, the tech has become practically ubiquitous. Even those responsible for setting new rules on how to regulate the use of AI are making extensive use of the flawed tech. As the Washington Post reports, the

Shutterstock / Futurism The gambling hub DraftKings could be using the mountains of user data it collects, and the analyst expertise it boasts, to stop problem gamblers from ruining their lives. Instead, it’s using this power to do the opposite, according to the New York Times: scout for potential addicts and keep them hooked. To do that, DraftKings, which is best known for its sports betting app, built an AI model to determine which customers were likely

Shutterstock / Daniel Tadevosyan Engagement farmers on TikTok are using AI to manipulate real arrest footage to show police officers kissing and groping arrestees being taken into custody. The deepfakes, which were discovered by Copyleaks, are grotesque. The AI-manipulated videos are based on actual footage of arrests — which appear to have originally been filmed for reality TV shows like TLC’s “D.U.I.” — but have been altered to depict law enforcement off

UKViewTime via X / Futurism Engagement hackers on X-formerly-Twitter have a new strategy to attract attention: use AI to undress celebrity men and publish it as if it’s the real deal. The strategy, which was flagged earlier this week by writer Sarah Hagi, is pretty simple. Posters take existing paparazzi photos of celebrity men and alter them so that the men are shirtless and, most often, extremely jacked. They then republish the synthetic images as if the

One such solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on its GitHub page thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No ads from the TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.” Another, “cleanyourtv,” promises to strip the bloatware from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi, to replace the launcher with one that resembles Apple TV. While hacking consumer electronics devices to gain more