An AI-powered tool designed to target trademark violations on social media was used to silence critics of SXSW, the massive annual tech, music and film conference in Austin, Texas. Each year in March, SXSW takes over Austin. This year, thanks to the demolition of the city’s aging convention center, events ...
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Scientists Investigated a Frequency Linked to ‘Paranormal’ Encounters. The Results Were Unsettling.Scientists Investigated a Frequency Linked to ‘Paranormal’ Encounters. The Results Were Unsettling.
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. If you’ve ever visited a haunted house or a paranormal hotspot, you may have experienced a weird sense of unease that you couldn’t quite explain. While ...
Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An InvestigationDid a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation
Tweets containing an abstract, psychedelic 3D stock image have million and millions of views on X because it is supposedly the key to a superintelligent, time-traveling AI conspiracy that attempted to warn people about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. I’m gonna try to explain the mind-numbing conspiracy ...
People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the SystemPeople Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
The number of pro se legal cases, meaning trials where a defendant or plaintiff represents themselves in court without an attorney, have increased dramatically since the wide adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, according to a pre-print research paper. The authors of the paper, titled “Access to ...
University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI SlopUniversity Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips. Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic ...
Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be ConsciousGoogle DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious
A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious. That conclusion appears to conflict with the narrative from AI company CEOs, including DeepMind’s own Demis Hassabis, who repeatedly talks about the ...
Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals’ Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals’ Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
This week Joseph talks to Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a journalist at TechCrunch. Lorenzo has possibly the deepest understanding of one of the wildest cybersecurity stories in years: how an employee of Trenchant, a government malware vendor that is supposed to only sell to the ‘good’ guys, secretly sold a bunch of ...
Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-GeneratedStudy Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the ...
A Mysterious Golden Orb Was Discovered Under the Sea. We Finally Know What It Is.A Mysterious Golden Orb Was Discovered Under the Sea. We Finally Know What It Is.
bWelcome back to the Abstract! Here are the stories this week that battled rivals, devoured sharks, solved riddles, and left fingerprints in the sky. First, scientists chronicle the victories of a jousting champion unlike any other in all of history. Then: it turns out that krakens are real, the mystery ...
Behind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple StoreBehind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple Store
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very bad ad. EMANUEL: This week we experimented with the podcast format a little bit. We ...