As Facebook and Instagram owner Meta seeks to jam generative AI into every feasible corner of its products, a disturbing Forbes report reveals that the company is failing to prevent those same products from flooding with AI-generated child sexual imagery. As Forbes reports, image-generating AI tools have given rise to a disturbing new wave of sexualized...

In an unconscionably dumb act of political theater, the Louisiana state legislature has voted to pass a ludicrous and deeply unscientific bill that criminalizes abortion pills by classifying them as "controlled dangerous substances." Louisana moved quickly to illegalize abortion in the days after Roe vs. Wade was overturned. Currently, neither medical...

Lost in the Sauce Google Search now comes with fancy-schmancy "AI Overviews" — and predictably, they're already giving some pretty dumb answers. This latest one, though, really takes the cake — or shall we say pie. As shared in a screenshot on X-formerly-Twitter, someone looked up "cheese not sticking to pizza" on Google. The search engine's AI Overview...

Head/Off In a gruesome yet preposterous video that's straight out of a David Cronenberg body horror movie, a biologist proposes that doctors in the future will be able to remove a human head from one body and attach it to another by using advanced robotics. Hashem Al-Ghaili, a biologist and filmmaker, presents in the video a gory yet goofy illustration...

OpenAI's credibility — and the credibility of its CEO, Sam Altman — is crumbling. Last week, amid a surprise string of high-profile executive and safety team departures, Vox revealed that the ChatGPT creator had pressured employees into signing draconian non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements by threatening to claw back exiting OpenAI employees'...

High Times The New York Times ran an excoriating investigation this week into Nicole Shanahan, the vice presidential running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr — yes, the same third-party candidate who recently claimed that a worm had eaten part of his brain. The story is deeply unflattering, suggesting that RFK Jr likely picked Shanahan as a running mate...