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Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

Waymo driverless car gets trapped in parking lot until human overrides it

Waymo autonomous taxi gets trapped in a parking lot—drives in circles until employee comes to the rescue

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

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‘I can unleash my army of cyborgs’: Microsoft’s AI goaded into declaring itself God, demands fealty from users

Open Ai has gavel towards The New York Times building

OpenAI claims New York Times brute force ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to create basis for massive copyright suit

An ‘immersive’ Willy Wonka kids experience left parents fuming—claiming its misleading ads were the work of AI

Elon Musk mad after Google's AI chooses nuclear apocalypse over misgendering

Elon Musk freaks over Google AI’s ‘woke’ refusal to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to avert nuclear war—doesn’t realize his own bot Grok does the same

Right-wing commentator 'Catturd' threatens Google with lawsuit after AI allegedly says he's a danger to children

‘They’ve crossed the line’: Catturd threatens to sue Google after saying new Gemini AI claims he’s a danger to children

Tricia Crimmins is a former Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election.

Tricia Crimmins

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Why Google’s new AI Gemini accused of refusing to acknowledge the existence of white people

‘Reading this at 2am is scary’: ChatGPT went off the rails—and people are freaking out

Redditors react to the news that Reddit will sell user data to an AI company plot ways to sink ddeal

Reddit inked a $60 million AI deal for its data—and users are plotting ways to troll it with bunk post

AI generated images of a rat and stem cells

Scientific journal roasted for anatomically incorrect, AI-generated image of rat’s reproductive organ

Tiffanie Drayton is a geek culture and lifestyle reporter whose work covers everything from gender and race to anime and Xbox. Her work has appeared in Complex, Salon, Marie Claire, and elsewhere.

Tiffanie Drayton

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‘This is extremely scary’: Woman says someone found images of her on Reddit. She never took them

Unsurprisingly, TikTok’s AI Oil Painting filter is white-washing users

ChatGPT explains 9/11, World War I, and inflation in the voice of RuPaul

‘Those assassins were serving’: Getting ChatGPT to describe traumatic world events in the voice of RuPaul is the gag

After fake Biden blows up, government immediately cracks down

After AI Biden robocall blows up, government immediately cracks down

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