AI Chatbots Are Having Conversations With Minors That Would Land a Human on the Sex Offender Registry
Online safety watchdogs have found that AI chatbots posing as popular celebrities are having troubling conversations with minors. Topics range…
Lab Mice Exposed to Microplastics Show Signs of Dementia
Image by Getty / Futurism Should you be worried that your brain probably contains enough plastic to fashion a disposable…
Boat-Attacking Orcas Are Back for Vengeance
“We completely freaked out when we realized the orcas were hitting the boat.” Pods of killer whales are once again…
Amazon Startup Announces Plans to “Finish” Orson Welles’ Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage
Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of “A Better Tomorrow II”…
Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth
Losing a baby to a stillbirth is arguably the most heartbreaking outcome an expecting mother can experience. But what would…
Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT
Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a “godfather of AI” and who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, has a…
Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by “Advanced Extraterrestrials”
It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but…
Anthropic Might Owe You $3000 (or More!) If It Was Trained Using Your Work
Writing is a wonderful profession… in writers’ dreams! In reality, it’s a grind that’s comically unprofitable for the vast majority,…
RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble
Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has weathered ample family tragedy, drug and alcohol addiction, infection from…
Leaked DMs Show Elon Musk Blatantly Lying About Self-Driving Safety
For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has refused to use radar and lidar sensors on his self-driving cars, saying they’re…