Artificial Intelligence
Researchers Accused Google And “60 Minutes” Of Spreading AI “Disinformation”
AI is not “some mysterious, magical, autonomous being,” one critic said.
Pranav Dixit
Fake Drakes And Counterfeit Kanyes: The Internet Is Suddenly Full Of AI-Generated Hip-Hop
But is it harmless homage or identity theft?
Chris Stokel-Walker
Don’t Be Fooled By AI-Generated Donald Trump Fakes
“It has become increasingly challenging for the average human eye to distinguish between AI-generated and real photos."
Pranav Dixit
This Uncensored Chatbot Shows What Happens When AI Is Programmed To Disregard Human Decency
FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right. Its makers say that is the point.
Pranav Dixit
AI Chose My Makeup For A Week And The Results Were Actually Pretty Great
AI may struggle with fingers and teeth, but the makeup was on point.
Deshawn Thomas
We Spoke To The Guy Who Created The Viral AI Image Of The Pope That Fooled The World
“I just thought it was funny to see the Pope in a funny jacket,” he told BuzzFeed News.
Chris Stokel-Walker
A Journalist Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested Went Viral
“I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said.
Chris Stokel-Walker
The Battle For AI Supremacy Got Super Intense This Week, Risks Be Damned
“‘Move fast and break things’ seems to suddenly be in vogue again.”
Pranav Dixit
I Had AI Write My Instagram Captions, And My Friends Did A Wellness Check On Me
AI was perfectly decent at writing captions, but it made me question my own humanity.
Katie Notopoulos
These Are The AI Trends That Keep Us Up At Night
Each month, BuzzFeed News will round up the biggest, weirdest developments in the rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence.
Pranav Dixit
Voice Deepfakes Of Everyone From Joe Rogan To Joe Biden Are Taking Over Social Media
The clips are hilarious, though the implications of the tech “are pretty scary,” one creator said.
Chris Stokel-Walker
“This Is What Your Worlds Are Lacking”: Artists Are Using AI To Create Fat, Black Sci-Fi And Fantasy Characters
“Fat, Black people deserve to be main characters capable of anything.”
Cheyenne M. Davis
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
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
I Told An AI To Invent Some New Canadian Delicacies — Let's Rank Them
I'm shook... but hungrily intrigued...
Tori Honoré
Google Just Heated Up The AI Wars By Announcing Its Own ChatGPT Rival
Bard will be available “in the coming weeks."
Pranav Dixit
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
Why Are AI-Generated Hands So Messed Up?
It all comes down to the images AI is learning from.
Pranav Dixit
An Artist Used AI Technology To Imagine What Different Countries Would Look Like As Women, And I'm Truly Blown Away
There's no one more beautiful than Ethiopia.
Kayla Yandoli
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
Meet The Three Artists Behind A Landmark Lawsuit Against AI Art Generators
“This [tech] effectively destroys an entire career path.”
Pranav Dixit
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
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
A Tech Worker Is Selling A Children's Book He Made Using AI. Professional Illustrators Are Pissed.
Ammaar Reshi told BuzzFeed News that he has received death threats and messages encouraging self-harm on social media.
Chris Stokel-Walker
A Dyslexic Contractor Can Now Send Formal Emails To Clients Thanks To The AI App His Friend Designed
The app, which took 15 minutes to build, is going viral thanks to Twitter.
Tom Warren
