As I wore them on one of my walks through San Francisco, on the shore of Ocean Beach, I came upon a dolphin-like fish that had washed up on the sand. Though I got my camera glasses close enough to the thing that I could smell it, Meta's AI assistant could not tell me what kind of animal it was. It correctly identified that it was very dead and that I should not touch it.
Companies are publishing millions of AI-generated articles in an attempt to drive traffic from Google Search and answer engines such as ChatGPT. Many case studies claim that this is an effective strategy. In fact, there are now more AI-generated articles being published on the web than human-written articles published online in November 2024, according to a study by Graphite, an AI search agency.
Companies are publishing millions of AI-generated articles in an attempt to drive traffic from Google Search and answer engines such as ChatGPT. Many case studies claim that this is an effective strategy. In fact, there are now more AI-generated articles being published on the web than human-written articles published online in November 2024, according to a study by Graphite, an AI search agency.
AI videos show Trump wearing a crown, piloting a jet and dumping feces on people protesting his leadership. Democratic leaders kneel before him as he waves a sword during a coronation-like scene. With AI, Trump quickly deploys stereotypes and false narratives in entertaining posts that memorably distill complicated issues into their basest political talking points, regardless of factual basis. Trump's openness in sharing AI posts is a presidential novelty, but it tracks with how he approaches this technology.
Can the business sue the reviewer and the review site that hosted the video? In the near-to-immediate future, company websites will be infused with AI tools. A home decor brand might use a bot to handle customer service messages. A health provider might use AI to summarize notes from a patient exam. A fintech app might use personalized AI-generated video to onboard new customers.
Improvements in our recommendation systems will also become even more leveraged as the volume of AI-created content grows. Social media has gone through two eras so far. First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you followed directly. The second was when we added all the creator content. Now, as AI makes it easier to create and remix content, we're going to add yet another huge corpus of content on top of those. Recommendation systems that understand all of this content more deeply and can show you the right content to help you achieve your goals are going to be increasingly valuable.
And it reminded me of kind of a, in a different way, the way that those, that Republican text thread in New York, you know, making jokes about watermelon and making jokes about the Holocaust and making jokes about Hitler and making jokes about women and making jokes about gay people and just the vile, vile vile. By the way, if people haven't read it, I mean, be careful reading it,
It is riddled with anti-Black caricatures, racism, and misinformation about Mamdani's platform, which includes establishing a department of community safety that would shift responsibilities like intervention in mental health crises away from police. The ad features AI-generated "criminals" who support Mamdani because he would let them off without consequences if he were mayor - which is both a misrepresentation of Mamdani's platform and simply not how the criminal legal system works.
Independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo received sharp criticism after his campaign inadvertently launched an AI-generated Criminals for Zohran Mamdani ad on social media during Wednesday night's mayoral debate, which was labeled as racist and Islamophobic. The two-minute ad, aired around 20 minutes after the start of the Oct. 22 debate, was quickly deleted by the Cuomo campaign but drew widespread condemnation from social media users and has been reshared countless times.
This is a damning revelation of the sheer scope of unlabelled, unverified, unchecked, likely AI content that has completely invaded [Amazon's] platform, wrote Michael Fraiman, author of the study. There's a huge amount of herbal research out there right now that's absolutely rubbish, said Sue Sprung, a medical herbalist in Liverpool. AI won't know how to sift through all the dross, all the rubbish, that's of absolutely no consequence. It would lead people astray.
Tim Higgins: Today on Bold Names, Liz Reid. She oversees Google Search and is something of a Google lifer. Having been there more than 20 years, she has seen some of the biggest moments for this company.
Last year, Icelandic teacher María Hjálmtýsdóttir wrote a column for The Guardian on the country's experiment with a 36-hour workweek. The piece offered rich personal anecdotes that only a local could provide. Readers learned, for instance, that Hjálmtýsdóttir's husband is using some of his newfound free time to chat with his fellow hobbyist pigeon keepers. In the months since her Guardian piece came out, Hjálmtýsdóttir's essay has been stripped of its color, repackaged,
Supply-side ad tech platforms - call them SSPs, ad exchanges or whatever - are at an interesting inflection point. The whole category has been under Google's thumb for years. But Google's pub-side tech was declared an illegal monopoly, and there's a sense that, perhaps, newcomers have a chance to grow. There are also interesting strategic acquisitions potentially in the offing. Airlines, credit card companies and other data-rich businesses are entering advertising and data sales, making an SSP an enticing addition.
With so much AI-generated content flooding the internet, a new question has surfaced: Does authenticity still matter? On The Intersect with Cory Corrine, host Cory Corrine digs into this exact topic with Caroline Giegerich, the vice president of AI at the Interactive Advertising Bureau. From AI-generated billboards that leave people unsettled to synthetic influencers gaining millions of followers, the line between what's real and what's not is getting harder to see. But as Giegerich points out, that very confusion might be what makes authentic, human-driven creativity even more valuable than ever.
Last year, a study found that cars are steadily getting less colourful. In the US, around 80% of cars are now black, white, gray, or silver, up from 60% in 2004. This trend has been attributed to cost savings and consumer preferences. Whatever the reasons, the result is hard to deny: a big part of daily life isn't as colourful as it used to be.
It used to be the place to connect with friends and socialise. Now it's a morass of sponsored content, shouty influencers, AI-generated reels and disinformation - and a growing number of users are switching off It was the year the world came out of the Covid-19 pandemic. In January 2022, restrictions were eased in Ireland and in February, mandatory mask-wearing was lifted.
The DOJ says investigators linked Rinderknecht to the crime with video surveillance, witness statements, and cellphone records that placed him near the start of the fire. During a press briefing, Essayli said other evidence includes a ChatGPT prompt for what Essayli describes as a "dystopian painting showing in part a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it." Essayli claims Rinderknecht used ChatGPT to create the image "a few months before" the fire started.
Just last month, I watched my 12-year-old nephew ask ChatGPT to write a story about a dragon who codes websites. Within seconds, he had a three-page tale complete with technical jokes I barely understood. That moment crystallized something I'd been thinking about for months: generative AI isn't just changing how we work, it's reshaping how we create, learn, and solve problems.
Top YouTube creator MrBeast is worried about AI's impact on creators' livelihoods, despite having dabbled with using the technology himself. On Monday, the creator posted his concerns on social media, where he openly wondered how AI-generated videos could affect the "millions of creators currently making content for a living." "Scary times," he added. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is No.
Back in 2023, Telly CEO Ilya Pozin came on The Vergecast and made a surprisingly compelling case for the existence of a TV that doesn't cost you a dime - but shows ads all the time. It's a reasonable business model, and a pretty good deal for consumers! But as The Verge's Emma Roth discovered, the reality of the situation is a bit different.
If that's how we're doing it, JD, then we here at The Late Show also enjoy humor, the host declared. He proceeded to roll a heavily censored AI animation of Vance humping a sofa while wearing a sombrero in callback to an internet hoax that falsely claimed Vance once wrote about such an encounter in his memoir. The rumor, long debunked, was recycled through online memes during the 2024 campaign.
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