AI is better than humans at making meme captions
“A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and ‘shareability’ than those made by people....
Read MoreFully AI-generated newspaper turns out to be horrific
“The image reeks of generative artificial intelligence. The warped, watercolor-esque style. Reuters spelled ‘Redutrs’ and El País with an accent over the wrong letter.” writes Alex Mahadevan, at Poynter. “It’s...
Read MoreStudio Ghibli and fans disgusted by OpenAI’s new image generator
Forbes: “The launch of OpenAI’s new image generator, powered by GPT-4o, has flooded the internet with Studio Ghibli-inspired images in a trend that, ironically, goes directly against the ethos of...
Read MoreFilm to be dubbed entirely with AI voice and mouth movements
“A foreign language sci-fi movie is headed to U.S. movie theaters this spring, but audiences won’t have to groan about subtitles. For the first time, an international feature film will...
Read MoreGoogle’s AI Overviews will soon give health advice
“Google’s crappy ‘AI Overviews’ regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it’s being entrusted with medical advice.” writes Futurism. “In a self-congratulatory blog post, Google’s chief health...
Read MoreChatGPT falsely claims dad murdered his kids
“A Norwegian man said he was horrified to discover that ChatGPT outputs had falsely accused him of murdering his own children.” Ars Technica reports. “According to a complaint filed Thursday...
Read MoreAI slop is drowning the real world
“The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern...
Read MoreStability AI can make 3D scenes from your photos
“Stability AI has released a new AI model, Stable Virtual Camera, that the company claims can transform 2D images into ‘immersive’ videos with realistic depth and perspective.” reports TechCrunch. “Virtual...
Read MorePerplexity pokes fun at Google’s AI Overviews
The Verge: “The AI search engine Perplexity just debuted a new ad featuring Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, who’s trapped in a room and must answer a series of questions...
Read MoreAI coming to Notepad and Paint – for a price
“For the first time, some features in longstanding Microsoft apps Notepad and Paint will require a paid subscription. As reported by PC World earlier this year, some newer features that...
Read MoreContent makers are selling their video scraps to train AI
New York Post: “A new company wants to give pay cash for your private videos — to train artificial intelligence.” “Now that AI companies have scraped virtually every corner of...
Read MoreCall center using AI ‘accent translation’ on Indian staff
Futurism: “Fresh off the heels of the AI-powered accent adjustments in the Oscar-nominated 2024 film “The Brutalist,” the French company that owns the largest call center in the world has...
Read MoreAI slop is taking over the internet
“AI slop has made its way into practically every corner of the internet. Just look at Facebook, or what’s become of Pinterest. But what about AI-written text? It may not...
Read MoreSpain introducing huge fines for not disclosing AI content
“Spain’s government approved a bill on Tuesday imposing massive fines on companies that use content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) without properly labelling it as such, in a bid to...
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