An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

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Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

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Remarks from an in-person debate, 'L’IA en question, questions à l’IA', a two-day event at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on May 24/25. The event focused on debates about the role of AI in contemporary society.

A trio of specialists discusses how artists can respond to the environmental cost of generative AI with Diane Drubay

Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?

The rapid development of AI is already changing how journalists operate. Reporters, editors, executives, and others across the news industry share their advice on how to engage—and where to draw the line.

AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says Finnish philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela.

The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm

Students are resorting to extreme measures to fend off accusations of cheating, including hourslong screen recordings of their homework sessions.

In a new trend, people are using generative AI tools like ChatGPT to reimagine themselves as dolls or action figures. And it's proven itself popular, as celebrities, politicians, institutions and major brands like the UK's Royal Mail have jumped in on the fun.

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

1M AI Images = Water for 2,000 People. Still Worth the Likes? The Viral Trend with a Hidden Cost Social media is awash with AI-generated Studio Ghibli

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

Mikael Brunila argues for a politics of opacity in the face of AI dominance.

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Content moderation systems are being abandoned and defunded, leaving many countries looking for alternatives.

Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.

A captured screenshot showcasing the iocaine demonstration site in operation. The primary objective of iocaine is to generate a stable, infinite maze of randomized garbage. Each page is randomly generated but adheres to a consistent structure: an optional 'back' link (pointing to ../), followed by a series of Markov chain-generated paragraphs of varying lengths, and an unordered list of links at the bottom. Each link is relative to the current page and features a randomized URI along with accompanying randomized text.