Tech
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
The Health Tech Products That I Think Will Blow Up This Year
I went to one of the biggest consumer electronics shows in the world. These are my predictions for the health products that are going to take off in 2023 and beyond.
Loren Cecil
The Facebook Portal Died. This Is How It Almost Lived.
Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth told BuzzFeed News how a deal to keep the Portal software going almost happened.
Katie Notopoulos
A Director Posted AI-Generated Stills From A Fake ’80s Sci-Fi Horror Movie And People Are Pissed
Keith Schofield was taken aback by the heated reaction to his made-up David Cronenberg film, Galaxy of Flesh.
Chris Stokel-Walker
A Tech News Site Has Been Using AI To Write Articles, So We Did The Same Thing Here
BuzzFeed News would like to thank ChatGPT.
Katie Notopoulos
Congrats To The Biggest Loser
Elon Musk has lost an estimated $182 billion, taking the Guinness World Record for “largest loss of personal fortune.”
Katie Notopoulos
The Eve 6 Guy Offers Advice To A Dude Still Reeling From A Kick To The Crotch And A Woman Still Wondering About Her Ex’s Sexuality
In the latest edition of his advice column, ’90s alternative rocker Max Collins doles out some tough love.
Max Collins
This Little-Known AirPods Feature Allowed My 95-Year-Old Grandfather To Hear Me Again
“Why didn’t anyone tell me about this before?”
Pranav Dixit
A Professional Artist Spent 100 Hours Working On This Book Cover Image, Only To Be Accused Of Using AI
The artist known as Ben Moran said they were unjustly suspended from r/Art for posting their piece there.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Teachers Are Absolutely Loving The Student Who Made A Tool That Shows If Your Essay Was Written By AI
GPTZero can tell if an essay about Hamlet was written using a bot.
Katie Notopoulos
Sam Bankman-Fried, Founder Of The Crypto Exchange FTX, Has Pleaded Not Guilty To Fraud And Other Charges
If convicted on all counts, he faces up to 115 years in prison.
Tom Warren
2022 Was The Year Tech Did A 180
From crypto’s implosion to Twitter’s meltdown, it’s been a wild ride of a year.
Katie Notopoulos
TikTok Owner ByteDance Said Employees Improperly Obtained Journalists' User Data
The journalists reportedly included those who formerly wrote about TikTok security concerns at BuzzFeed News.
Ellie Hall
Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Freed On $250 Million Bail
Two of Bankman-Fried’s top former colleagues have pleaded guilty to federal criminal fraud charges and are cooperating with the prosecution against him.
Tom Warren
The NASA Mars Lander InSight Has Died And People Have A Lot Of Feelings About It
“I’m not crying about a robot, you’re crying about a robot.”
Ellie Hall
Meet The YouTuber Everyday Astronaut, Who's Actually Going To The Moon Next Year
“It’s insane to think about going 240,000 miles away from home,” the 37-year-old said.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Elon Musk Said He Will Step Down As Twitter CEO As Soon As He Can “Find Someone Foolish Enough To Take The Job”
Musk tweeted the news in the wake of a Twitter poll in which 57.5% of voters said he should vacate the top spot.
Tom Warren
