Congress: Maybe We Shouldn’t Let AI Destroy the News Media
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. What Could the Future of Medical AI Look Like? Off English Last year, after…
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s Creepy Vision for Iris-Scanning ‘Global Digital Currency’, Begins Rollout
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sci-fi-tinged, iris-scanning cryptocurrency project Worldcoin began rolling out services internationally today. The extent to which Worldcoin actually delivers on its promise of a “new global digital…
Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plummeting After a Facebook Algorithm Change
Making matters worse, Chappell, Madison 365’s editor, told Gizmodo that the performance of content is varying noticeably based on the subject matter. He said Meta isn’t just deciding whether or…
8 Times ‘Deepfake’ Videos Were Actually Real
Photo: Kevin C. Cox (Getty Images) Raffaela Spone, a Pennsylvania woman who earned the moniker “deepfake cheerleader mom” for allegedly using manipulated images to cyberbully teenage girls, was in fact…
Black Mirror Creator Says He Used ChatGPT to Write an Episode. It Was Terrible.
Black Mirror: Season 6 | Official Trailer | NetflixWhile his experiments with generating an episode of Black Mirror with AI might have been deemed a failure, Booker told the outlet…
Is Twitter Circles Broken?
If you’re a regular Twitter Circles user, you should probably stop posting things you wouldn’t want seen by the wider public. Numerous tweeters are reporting that their supposedly private Twitter…
16 Celebrities Who Won’t Pay Elon for Blue Checks
The battle between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and the legacy verified accounts with blue checkmarks that for years made the platform attractive is at a standstill—for now, at least. April…
7 Other Times the U.S. Stupidly Tried to Ban TikTok
Photo: Samuel Corum (AP) U.S. government efforts to ban TikTok over national security grounds, once considered a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, are looking more and more likely by the week, especially…
Congress Browbeats TikTok’s CEO in Brutal 5-Hour Hearing
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in a combative hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday. As expected, Congress ran Chew through the gauntlet, but the hearing included…
BuzzFeed’s branded sex toy AirVibe doesn’t live up to the buzz
Cute and functional case • Affordable for a dual stimulator Bendable structure may not fit every body • Difficult to maneuver the buttons The BuzzFeed AirVibe is a good toy…