Salesforce’s CEO backtracks after saying Trump should send troops into San Francisco | Technology
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host and editor, Blake Montgomery. What I’m watching this week: South Park’s caricature…
Joke’s on you, fleshbag! Channel 4’s first AI presenter is dizzyingly grim on so many levels | Television
Last night’s Dispatches was called Will AI Take My Job? Usually when something like this employs a question mark in…
AI chatbots give ‘unreliable and biased’ advice to voters, says Dutch watchdog | Netherlands
AI chatbots are “unreliable and clearly biased” when offering voting advice, the Dutch data protection authority (AP) has said, warning…
Bryan Cranston thanks OpenAI for cracking down on Sora 2 deepfakes | OpenAI
Bryan Cranston has said he is “grateful” to OpenAI for cracking down on deepfakes of himself on the company’s generative…
‘Every kind of creative discipline is in danger’: Lincoln Lawyer author on the dangers of AI | Artificial intelligence (AI)
He is one of the most prolific writers in publishing, averaging more than a novel a year. But even Michael…
When my kids wrote a song using AI, all I could think was: you missed the fun part | Myke Bartlett
Somewhere in the middle of the last school holidays, as I was attempting to work from home, the kids came…
Trump reposts AI-generated video of plane dumping sludge on No Kings protesters | Donald Trump
Donald Trump reposted an AI-generated video of him flying a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump” and dumping…
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies | Global development
AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children and sexual violence survivors are flooding stock photo sites and increasingly being used by…
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Australian books
There is a “hype cycle” that maps the euphoria and hysteria generated by new technology and then the consequent plunge…
Techno-capitalists think innovation can save the planet. But that same thinking is what got us here | Technology
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World describes a society in thrall to the values of science and technology. It is set…