Artificial Intelligence

2025-04-02

We have to talk about AI “art”: It’s a difficult moment in time for moderators of communities which have strong feelings about AI.

2025-03-29

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

2025-03-15: AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead. Uh-oh, either …

2025-03-14: Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice. …

2025-03-10: OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’ …

2025-02-26: Deezer receives 10k AI-generated music tracks per day, artists aren't happy

2025-02-26

Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and over 1,000 artists release silent album to protest UK copyright AI laws 

10,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded to Deezer every day

2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation

2025-02-11

Is it okay?: Robin Sloan considers the ethics of generative AI models needing to slurp up the entirety of the internet to exist.

2025-02-07

Is OpenAI’s Operator, a new AI ‘agent,’ ready to help in the real world?: A reporter’s very expensive AI inadvertently buys them very expensive eggs.

2025-02-02

A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study: The 100% AI-written psychology essays weren’t detected as such by the graders, and they typically scored higher than the human ones.

DeepSeek Fails Researchers' Safety Tests: The hot new AI bot appears to be up for discussing pretty much anything, irrespective of harm.

2025-02-01: 📺 Watched Grieving Mother: AI was the Stranger in my Home.

2025-01-28

‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot: Open-source chatbot DeepSeek can apparently do more AI with less resources.

2025-01-24: Trumpian legislation via LLMs (we should be so lucky)

2025-01-24

Pope warns Davos summit that AI could worsen ‘crisis of truth’: He was the subject of one of the more famous early deepfakes to be fair.

2025-01-08: What we learned about LLMs in 2024

2024-12-18: Noticed that Mimo, one of the ‘Duolingo but for coding’ educational apps I sometimes …

2024-12-15

AI’s Walking Dog: ‘AI itself has much to offer, but it has not lived up to its potential to serve the public good, and the context of AI’s development explains why’

2024-12-13

The Race For the Best Stock Footage: Joe’s (skeptical) thoughts on the utility of AI video generators.

2024-12-10

Artificial Irony: Misinformation Expert’s Testimony Has Fake Citations: Via unchecked ChatGPT usage.

2024-12-10: Misinformation expert misinforms court by using ChatGPT

2024-12-08

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People: Not to justify murder, but I’m sure there were a lot of desperate people very unhappy with Brian Thompson’s company.

2024-12-07: OpenAI may be planning a ChatGPT Pro plan for $200 per month. Well, that’s quite a hike if …