Artificial Intelligence

2024-07-31: An AI company reinvents the concept of a 'friend'

2024-07-24: We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and …

2024-07-23: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It Paul Ford writes entertainingly about generative …

2024-07-16: 404 Media reveals the “Face Fraud” marketplace, wherein for a few dollars you can buy a …

2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'

2024-06-27: 404 reports that: Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that …

2024-06-19: (At least) one of the UK's general election candidates is an AI chatbot

2024-06-12: The cutting edge AI-bots couldn't say who won the 2020 US Presidential election

2024-05-28: Seems it is impossible to delete your old Google Gemini chatbot chats if you have a Google business …

2024-05-21: OpenAI's latest model - why are we trying so hard to make these products sound so human?

2024-05-13: Publishers are receiving a deluge of AI-generated dross

2024-05-09: 📺 (Re)watching Westworld.

2024-05-06: Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs now has a AI-generated 'digital person' as a spokesperson

2024-04-20: The source of the 'AI experts think there's a 10% chance that AI will destroy humanity' statistic

2024-04-06: The definition of Botshit

2024-03-22: ChatGPT remembers

2024-03-13: Figure is putting ChatGPT brains into humanoid bodies

2024-03-07: The day Replika lobotomised everyone's AI girlfriend

2024-02-18: Air Canada instructed to honour a refund that their chatbot inadvertently promised

2024-01-30: Cory Doctorow reminds us that AI doesn’t actually have to be better than us at our jobs in …

2024-01-18: NewsGuard identifies 634 entire websites full of generative-AI-created content farm nonsense

2024-01-15: Amazon appears to be selling OpenAI apologies disguised as chairs

2024-01-09: Elsewhere, I wrote about the ongoing battle between between human creators and AI trainers.

2024-01-03: From CNBC: Google is considering a substantial workforce reduction, potentially affecting up to …

2023-12-29: Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT and its ilk are finding their way into providing direct customer service for …