How to Check If Something Online Was Written by AI
Generative artificial intelligence is everywhere you look these days, including on the web: advanced predictive text bots such as ChatGPT can now spew out endless reams of text on every…
It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week,…
Microsoft Forms Alliance to Help Union Workers Stop Worrying and Learn to Love AI
Photo: MacroEcon (Shutterstock) Microsoft announced an alliance with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the interests of workers, according…
Climate Groups to Biden: AI Will Worsen Climate Change Crisis
An open letter to the White House from 17 major climate change and anti-disinformation groups says President Joe Biden and his administration have largely ignored the toll AI is already…
Microsoft’s AI Narration App Expands to Android for Blind Users
Photo: OpturaDesign (Shutterstock) Microsoft launched the Seeing AI app on Android devices Monday, expanding the free app that narrates the world to millions more blind and low-vision users. Seeing AI…
Why the Entire AI World Was Talking About ‘Q’ This Week
In the aftermath of last week’s shocking OpenAI power struggle, there was one final revelation that acted as a kind of epilogue to the sprawling mess: a report from Reuters…
Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They’re All Pretty Stupid
There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal. AGI refers to that still hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be…
Amazon’s New AI Image Generator Creates an ‘Invisible Watermark’ on Every Deepfake
How hard is it to check whether an image is an AI deepfake or not? Well, Amazon claims it has some sort of answer with its own watermarking system for…
AI Turned These Memes Into Videos and It’s the Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen
Gif: Runway Last week, Stability AI announced a new tool called Stable Video Diffusion, a model that turns images into AI-generated videos. It was only a matter of minutes before…
Sports Illustrated Allegedly Dupes Readers With Fake AI-Created Writers
Update 5:46 PM: Sports Illustrated sent us the following statement. Today, an article was published alleging that Sports Illustrated published AI-generated articles. According to our initial investigation, this is not…