Insane Clown Posse fans are criticizing the duo's use of generative AI in a teaser video for their upcoming album 'The Naught,' citing garbled text and nonsensical imagery. The backlash highlights a growing divide in music fandoms over AI-generated art, as Shaggy 2 Dope has previously embraced the technology.
Meta took down its Galactica AI, a large language model trained on scientific papers, three days after its November 15 release. Experts including Gary Marcus criticized the system for generating plausible-sounding but false content, highlighting concerns about AI and misinformation.
OpenAI launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-powered browser with an agent mode for tasks like booking flights. Early reviews cite slow performance and irrelevant search results, while experts warn of prompt injection risks that could expose user data.
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told an AI conference in Las Vegas that superintelligent AI should be given 'maternal instincts' to care for humans rather than dominate them. Critics note the maternal instinct concept lacks scientific backing and is rooted in gendered stereotypes.
University of Washington researchers found that hate speech detection algorithms, including Google's Perspective, are up to twice as likely to flag tweets by Black users as toxic. The bias stems from human annotators labeling African-American Vernacular English as offensive, which then trains the AI to discriminate.
Stanford researchers published a study in Cell showing a brain-computer interface can decode inner speech in paralyzed patients. The system uses a mental password to protect privacy and achieved 98.75% accuracy in a small trial.
An AI-generated image showing Donald Trump wading through floodwaters spread widely on Facebook and other platforms after Hurricane Helene. Fact-checkers confirmed the image is fake, and it is one of several synthetic disaster photos circulating as misinformation.
DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder says he gave GPT-4 and AutoGPT access to his bank accounts, credit report, and email, saving $217.85 by canceling subscriptions and negotiating bills. But the company's mixed track record and data-privacy risks raise doubts about whether the experiment is replicable for consumers.
Portland radio station Live 95.5 FM has deployed RadioGPT, a GPT-4-powered tool by Futuri Media, to create an AI voice clone of midday host Ashley Elzinga. The station says the clone is not fully replacing the human DJ, but the on-air debut drew criticism over job-replacement concerns in an industry already hit by layoffs.
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal's reelection campaign admitted that 31 favorable news articles on its website were generated by ChatGPT, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The fabricated stories, attributed to local media outlets, could not be verified, raising questions about campaign oversight and the use of AI in political messaging.
