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.
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.
The administration's announcement of the campaign explains it will target social media platforms, short video services, the livestreaming platforms used by Chinese e-commerce sites to host infomercials and even delve into comments left across the internet. Some of the material Beijing wants to root out - such as content that incites violence - would likely fall foul of content moderators in many nations.
This is a list of writing and formatting conventions typical of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, with real examples taken from Wikipedia articles and drafts. It is meant to act as a field guide to help detect undisclosed AI-generated content on Wikipedia. This list is descriptive, not prescriptive; it consists of observations, not rules. Advice about formatting or language to avoid in Wikipedia articles can be found in the policies and guidelines and the Manual of Style, but does not belong on this page.
Fans of the game took to platforms such as X and Reddit, pointing out what they perceived as telltale signs that the sprays depicting cartoony versions of Venture, Juno, and the game's new Hero Wuyang were AI-generated. One user on X cited the "hair and line art" in a spray showing Venture and Juno posing back-to-back, and another user claimed that there were "weird errors and strange details that'd be odd for an industry artist to make,"
For a while now, we've been seeing companies that fired a bunch of their human workers in favor of artificial intelligence move to recoup some of that flesh-and-blood labor. Now, that push has resulted in a new line of gig work: slop fixer-uppers, who get paid to improve AI-generated art, writing, and code - by making it less, well, sloppy.