Tech
A Sci-Fi Magazine Stopped Letting Anyone Submit Stories After Being Flooded With AI-Written Content
“We were being buried,” Clarkesworld editor and publisher Neil Clarke said.
Pranav Dixit
Here’s What Happens When You Train An AI On Pauly Shore Movies
2dumb2destroy is a ChatGPT bot trained to be a doofus — and it’s fantastic.
Katie Notopoulos
TikTok’s Boob-Flashing Trend Is A Content Moderation Nightmare
It’s called the Foopah challenge, and it’s testing the limits of TikTok’s moderation system.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Here’s Why Andrew Tate May Have Chosen To Live In Romania, Where Sex Trafficking Has “Become A National Sport”
A representative for Tate dismissed theories as to why he based himself in the Eastern European country as “press speculation.”
Matei Rosca
Drama Between A Chimney Sweep And House Flippers Is Burning Up TikTok
“Nobody likes house flippers, and nobody likes it when you argue with a professional.”
Katie Notopoulos
Guinness World Records Is Giving The Shaft To The World’s Biggest Dick Pic
It’s a whopping 102,040,171,200,000 pixels, making it the largest digital image ever made, period. So why won’t Guinness recognize it?
Benjamin Piñeros
This Black Mom Invented Skin Tone Emojis, But Her Patent Attempts Have Been Shot Down Repeatedly
Now, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee are trying to help her and other inventors from underrepresented backgrounds.
Pranav Dixit
Advice Column: I’m 27 And Have Never Been In A Committed Relationship
It’s a very special Valentine’s Day edition of the Eve 6 Guy’s Heart in a Blender column.
Max Collins
Harry Potter And The Controversial Video Game: Streamers Take Sides In The Fight Over “Hogwarts Legacy”
Can you separate the art from the artist? When it comes to author J.K. Rowling, the gaming world is fiercely divided.
Steven Asarch
Donald Trump Asked Twitter To Take Down This Chrissy Teigen Tweet
The revelation came during a congressional hearing on Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Katie Notopoulos
The Search Engine Bing Will Start Using A Souped-Up Version Of ChatGPT’s AI
“Can you suggest a 3-course menu with a chocolate dessert?”
Katie Notopoulos
Google Just Heated Up The AI Wars By Announcing Its Own ChatGPT Rival
Bard will be available “in the coming weeks."
Pranav Dixit
The Twitch Community Has Been Rocked By A Deepfake Porn Scandal. “It Was Quite Horrifying,” One Victim Said.
“I was wishing for eye bleach,” streamer Sweet Anita told BuzzFeed News.
Steven Asarch
Logan Paul Has Been Hit With A Class Action Lawsuit Over His Allegedly Fraudulent CryptoZoo NFT Project
The action "is dramatically flawed and filed with the intention of generating headlines," Paul's legal rep told BuzzFeed News.
Tom Warren
RIP To The Best Bots On Twitter
“I’m not paying a dime to Elon lol.”
Katie Notopoulos
Inside Virtual Reality’s Booming Underground Sex Scene
Explicit content is banned on the popular VRChat platform, but that doesn’t stop users with Bluetooth-enabled toys from indulging in hourslong erotic role play.
Jessica Lucas
An NFT Guy Who Said A Car Crash Put Him In A Five-Month Coma Was Making The Whole Thing Up
The 23-year-old "crypto detective" told BuzzFeed News that the viral story was "performance art" meant to draw attention to his NFT investigation.
Chris Stokel-Walker
The Writing On The Game “Forspoken” Is As Bad As Everyone’s Saying. Its Black Woman Lead Is Just One Of The Casualties.
The game uses tokenized diversity to try to make a generic Hero’s Journey feel fresh, but the end result is completely uninterested in its characters’ interior lives.
Sydnee Thompson
The Company Behind ChatGPT Just Released A Tool To Detect Text Written By AI. It Only Works About 1 In 4 Times.
“It appears that the problem of distinguishing human writing from software-generated text remains unsolved.”
Pranav Dixit
Twitter Is Shedding Users, Most Of Them Democrats, A New Survey Shows
Trust in the platform has dropped among Democrats and risen among Republicans.
Katie Notopoulos
Why Are AI-Generated Hands So Messed Up?
It all comes down to the images AI is learning from.
Pranav Dixit
A CEO Planned To Use A "Robot Lawyer" In Court But Then Learned He Could Be Arrested For It
“I don’t want to go to jail over an experiment,” DoNotPay’s Joshua Browder told BuzzFeed News.
Pranav Dixit
Vloggers Hank And John Green Want You To Take College Courses On YouTube
The brothers announced their new educational initiative, Study Hall, a partnership with Arizona State University and YouTube.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Donald Trump Is Officially Allowed Back On Facebook And Instagram
“The public should be able to hear what politicians are saying so they can make informed choices,” Meta’s Nick Clegg said.
Pranav Dixit
A Virtual Reality Headset Might Be The Workout Tool You Need
According to TikTok, VR headsets can help make exercise more fun and achievable.
Tessa Flores
People Think This “Trad Life” Carnivore Influencer Is Secretly A Woman. He Isn’t.
Twitter has accused Carnivore Aurelius of actually being a woman wellness influencer.
Katie Notopoulos
Meet Three People Whose Lives Literally Were Saved By Twitter
A stage actor, an activist journalist, and a hard rocker share their tales.
Tom Warren
Meet The Three Artists Behind A Landmark Lawsuit Against AI Art Generators
“This [tech] effectively destroys an entire career path.”
Pranav Dixit
A Coordinated Group Of 4,500 Bots Tweeted In Support Of Andrew Tate
The Center for Countering Digital Hate announced it had found 4,621 fake Twitter accounts created to promote Tate.
Ikran Dahir
Meet The Woman Selling An Eye-Popping Crypto-Themed House For Just Under A Mil
“I wanted it to be extravagant and a little bit tacky, but in a good way,” said owner Elle Levy of the Crypto House Airbnb in North Hollywood.
Tom Warren
