Midjourney Nixes Free Generations After AI Pope Images Go Viral

No Free Clout The swagged out Pope was just too much to handle. Not long after AI-generated images of Pope Francis in immaculate white drip went viral, Midjourney — which was used to create the images — has announced that it's pulling the plug on free trials, as spotted by The Washington Post. Temporarily, anyway. "Due to a combination of extraordinary...

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Former NASA Astronaut Caught Faving Transphobic Tweets

Fav Star In an unfortunate turn of events, ex-NASA astronaut and current podcaster Clayton Anderson has been caught favoriting a spate of transphobic tweets — and right around Trans Day of Visibility, no less. These harmful astronaut-approved posts, which Futurism has independently verified still have "likes" from Anderson, were first pointed out...

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Mama Mia! Italy Has Banned ChatGPT!

Vogue AI-talia The anti-artificial intelligence push continues in Italy, which just moved to temporarily ban OpenAI's ChatGPT pending a data privacy investigation. The Italian Data Protection Authority announced in a press release today that it has blocked ChatGPT and opened an investigation into OpenAI over concerns about the way the company processes...

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Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

The Hole Picture By observing the orbits of stars in their pull, astronomers say they've found evidence that black holes are surrounded by substantial amounts of dark matter, according to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Dark matter is tricky to study because you can't observe it directly — even though it's believed to make...

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There Will Be Fewer People Alive in 2100 Than Now, Experts Predict

Population Bob-omb A new report reevaluating the long-feared "population bomb" has found not only that such an explosion in birthrates is unlikely given our current trajectory, but also that the global population will likely peak within this century before falling. In a new study commissioned by the non-governmental organization Club of Rome and carried...

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Richard Branson Sacks 85% of Virgin Orbit

Free Falling Virgin Orbit has announced that it will cut a total of 675 jobs — a staggering 85 percent of its workforce — in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. Earlier this year, Richard Branson's satellite launch outfit failed to deliver its first satellites into orbit. The setback clearly has cost the company dearly, with it revealing...

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Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI

One of the world's loudest artificial intelligence critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on AI but to militantly put an end to it — before it ends us instead. In an op-ed for Time magazine, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has for more than two decades been warning about the dystopian future that will come when we...

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Elon Musk Brutally Owned by Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Definition of Burn While the Twitter world waits for owner Elon Musk's next controversial decree, the trolling geniuses behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary's social presence have provided some much-needed comedic relief. "People who subscribe to Merriam-Webster Red will get exclusive access to the real definitions," the famous dictionary's account...

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Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results

AI Ads Well, that was fast. Microsoft has confirmed that it's squeezing ads into the answers of its Bing AI chatbot, which it only introduced last month — an expected but surprisingly cash-grabby addition to a product that still needs a lot of finetuning. In a blog post published Wednesday, the company revealed that it's "exploring placing ads in...

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Matt Damon Says He Only Did That Crypto Super Bowl Ad Because He's Brave and Selfless

Them Apples Listen up, peons: the only reason Boston's second-biggest movie star Matt Damon even did that Crypto.com ad for the 2022 Super Bowl was to raise money for his charity, capiche? In an interview with the Associated Press, Damon opened up about his now-infamous "fortune favors the brave" ad from last year's big game and insisted that the...

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