Futurism

Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

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Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

Futurism4w4 weeks agoCovered by53 min read

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility, AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

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Good e-Reader, Kagi News, and more ›

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Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Lab...

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Your School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago, 'Venecky' instead of Kentucky: JCPS middle school parents suspect school agendas are AI-generated

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Tech Brew, and more ›

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Americans Are Tossing Salad in Unprecedented Numbers

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Surveillance of Cyclosporiasis, Shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations is source of cyclosporiasis infections in five states, and more ›

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New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make

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Today we're releasing Computer History in ChatGPT.

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The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value

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AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them

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The Fine Print*, and more ›

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There’s Pretty Much No Good Way to Fight an Electric Vehicle Fire, New Study Finds

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Experts Warn That AI Slop Is Corrupting Kids’ Brains

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Fruit, Vegetable, and Brain Rot: The Use of Generative AI to Produce Violence-Based Viral Trends

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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe

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New CNBC Generation Lab poll shows almost half of 18- to 34-year-olds see democratic socialism positively

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Kotaku, Metacurity, and more ›

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Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans

Futurism5w5 weeks agoCovered by25 min read

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The Subreddit for “Regretful Parents” Just Might Be the Darkest Place Online

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‘Almost unmanageable’: Raising a child in the U.S. now costs more than $300,000

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Cursed Startup Now Offering Buy-Now-Pay-Later Radiation Exposure Kits in Case of Nuclear Armageddon

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Dario Amodei’s Wife Is Closely Linked to Jeffrey Epstein

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Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic

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Axios Partners With OpenAI to “Automate” Local Journalism

Futurism5w5 weeks ago2 min read

Axios Wants to Save Local News with AI, AI in Newsrooms: Responsible Innovation and the Future of Journalism - Video

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People Horrified That They’ll Be Busted Now That Anthropic Is Watermarking AI Content

Futurism5w5 weeks agoCovered by53 min read

Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models, Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

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The Cool Down, and more ›

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Publisher of Axios Boasts That He Uses AI to “Read” Everything For Him Now, Instead of Using His Brain

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Variety, and more ›

Congressional Staffers Are So Lazy That They’re Using AI to Write New Laws

Futurism5w5 weeks agoCovered by22 min read

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Robot Writers AI, and more ›

McDonald’s Has Hundreds of Pages of Intel on Its Repeat Customers, and You Can Get a Copy of Yours

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McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There, Privacy Web Form

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The Cool Down, and more ›

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Man Wearing Pervert Glasses Films Himself Harassing Famous Female Comedian in the Middle of TV Shoot

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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales, Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women

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Fast Company, Lifehacker, and more ›

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Influencer Melts Down That People Didn’t Like Her Being a Paid Shill for OpenAI

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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

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The Cool Down, and more ›

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