After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam Altman Complains That He's Getting Recognized In Public Too Much ( futurism.com )
Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot ( futurism.com )
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use" ( futurism.com )
In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" for users — and he has examples of just what kind of "stuff" he means....
Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1 ( futurism.com )
Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface ( futurism.com )
Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry ( futurism.com )
Thanks, I hate it.
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members ( futurism.com )
Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy ( futurism.com )
AI Customer Service Bot Disabled After Trashing Company Using It ( futurism.com )
The Mighty Cybertruck Keeps Getting Stuck in the Snow ( futurism.com )
LOL...
Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI ( futurism.com )
Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers ( futurism.com )
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
Suing Writers Seethe at OpenAI's Excuses in Court ( futurism.com )
Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching ( futurism.com )
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos ( futurism.com )
Florida Man Shoots 100 Poisonous Toads ( futurism.com )
I guess that’s one way to take care of the problem.
An Asian Woman Asked AI to Improve Her Headshot and It Turned Her White ( futurism.com )
Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark ( futurism.com )
AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models ( futurism.com )
“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...
SpaceX Satellites Are Ruining Observations With "Unintended" Radiation ( futurism.com )
A new study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests the satellites are emitting “unintended” radiation from the electronics onboard the satellites....
Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content ( futurism.com )
G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a “modest test” of AI content on its sites....
OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub ( futurism.com )
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI ( futurism.com )
Owner of Destructoid, The Escapist, Siliconera, and others Fires Writers and Hires for "AI Editor" to Churn Out Hundreds of Articles Per Week ( futurism.com )
According to their website, Publications owned by GAMURS Group include:...
