the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

Clicked on a random workout video on my Instagram explore page and Meta AI is imploring me to learn more about……. starvemaxxing

New -- I wrote about ChatGPT's April 2025 cross-chat memory update, which many people whose lives were upended by ChatGPT obsessions point to as an inflection point. It “takes people into cul-de-sacs... [my wife] is like a Waymo driving around in a circle endlessly.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"One man, whose now-ex wife believes that she discovered powerful spiritual entities inside of ChatGPT, described connecting with another man...To their horror, the pair quickly realized that their spouses — and marriages — started unraveling in the wake of the April memory update."

New -- I wrote about ChatGPT's April 2025 cross-chat memory update, which many people whose lives were upended by ChatGPT obsessions point to as an inflection point. It “takes people into cul-de-sacs... [my wife] is like a Waymo driving around in a circle endlessly.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Currently working on a freelance piece about Ray Ban Meta glasses -- if anyone has any wild stories about encounters with Meta glasses in the workplace, at schools, in stores, etc, please feel free to send me a tip! :)

Remember in 2023 when CharacterAI was valued at one billion dollars despite $0 in revenue www.reuters.com/technology/a...

MY FIRST “BIG STORY” FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. “Teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.” www.wired.com/story/househ...

NEW: An "independent label" is publishing huge amounts of AI slop featuring AI-generated "viking" rappers and Christian rockers and blasting it across social media + streamers, where it's raking in views/listens. The guy behind the label claims the artists are real: futurism.com/artificial-i...

what

Three albums in three days? I personally don’t love the idea of AI fruit love island, but for music

I know we get on hoteps for carrying the fictive grand history so hard but no one is doing it like these guys.

Glad to see Maggie boosting this amazing music. “Grandaddy’s Bible” and “Your Grandaddy’s Bible” are two of the best songs around about Bibles owned by grandfathers.

NEW: An "independent label" is publishing huge amounts of AI slop featuring AI-generated "viking" rappers and Christian rockers and blasting it across social media + streamers, where it's raking in views/listens. The guy behind the label claims the artists are real: futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is horrifyingly bananas.

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: it appears that the Wall Street Journal got suckered by a company that claimed to be debuting the first AI-generated feature film at the Cannes Film Festival. Why? Because we asked Cannes and they said they are absolutely not screening it futurism.com/artificial-i...

"The husk of the Sports Illustrated brand is stealing entire stories from people without credit, seemingly using AI. This becomes very obvious when it's stealing data only you've reported!" futurism.com/artificial-i...

BREAKING: the Zuckerbergs are hiring a lifeguard, but are choosing to make the job title "Beach Water Person" for whatever reason www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Author has a "Masters Degree in Truth," according to the website for his book 🙃 Great reporting by @benmullin.bsky.social

last year I wrote about the digital divide at SI, and how the less reputable "On SI" side is posting gross slop via "independent publishers" that SI/Minute Media disavow when it suits them. I also flagged that a writer was using AI, which they only kinda-sorta acknowledged. Seems little has changed!

The amount of damage that the OnSI contributor network has done to Sports Illustrated’s reputation is infuriating. I wish people better understood the difference between OnSI (pay-per-click trash) and Sports Illustrated (good work, produced by people making a living wage).

NEW: Sports Illustrated was accused of publishing an AI-generated article the content of which was plagiarized from a competitor -- and when we reached out with questions, it deleted the author's profile and entire archive of work futurism.com/artificial-i...

Reminder that Sports Illustrated for many years is only a licensed brand name (private equity-funded Israeli startup Minute Media runs SI and pays owner Authentic Brands Group for the name/IP), and hasn't been the traditional SI news media company since Time sold it on 2018. (cont)

A Sportico editor accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism, suggesting that AI may have been used to generate the plagiarized piece. SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sports Hallucinated

To be clear, since a lot of people are saying otherwise: there's no indication that this writer was/is fake. But he didn't seem to have any journalism experience outside of bylining data-focused SI content about prediction markets/betting. His LinkedIn work history was mainly in business analytics.

A Sportico editor accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism, suggesting that AI may have been used to generate the plagiarized piece. SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared. futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing. wapo.st/4wyzH7u

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

I think a lot of people are very bad at information futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Always worth remembering: ChatGPT isn't a tool, it isn't a companion. It's a product -- and everything you type in that box is data you are sending to OpenAI.

"Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you." I think this point really needs to be shouted out more

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Inside you are two wolves. One says “I want everyone to read my story.” The other says “oh God everyone is reading my story” and also that wolf is vomiting.

NEW: The NYT sent a firm email to freelancers today warning that "contributors must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated, modified or enhanced" by generative AI. The "reminder" notably follows a string of AI incidents at the paper: futurism.com/artificial-i...

“OpenAI must be forced to pause its new ChatGPT Health…until it is demonstrably safe thru rigorous scientific testing & indepndnt oversight”[lawyer for fam] vs “Health is already 1 of the most common ways ppl use ChatGPT…w/ hundreds of millions of ppl asking health &wellness Qs each week”[ChatGPT]🧪🛟

Internal email: in a "periodic reminder", NYT tells freelancers they must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated by AI tools (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

OpenAI is being sued by the family of a 19-yo student who overdosed after ChatGPT wrongly advised him to consume a deadly mix of substances. The lawsuit seeks to halt access to "ChatGPT Health," a health "support" product that outside experts have found grave flaws in: futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI was sued this week over a mass shooting in Florida and the overdose death of a college student in California. They are among two dozen cases filed in the last year that claim ChatGPT should be subject to consumer product safety laws: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/t...

NEW: The NYT sent a firm email to freelancers today warning that "contributors must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated, modified or enhanced" by generative AI. The "reminder" notably follows a string of AI incidents at the paper: futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in deadly mass violence. This latest case was filed by the widow of a man killed in last year's mass shooting at Florida State University: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.

How do I bet

"you are instructed not to talk about extinction again."

Baffled by a safety blog that OpenAI published yesterday ahead of the news of the seven new Tumbler Ridge lawsuits. The post frames OpenAI's safety efforts as proactive — and not reactive to the range of disturbing violence that ChatGPT use has already been linked to. futurism.com/artificial-i...

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

“Mass shootings aren’t the only kinds of violence linked to ChatGPT…[which] has also played a concerning role in domestic abuse & stalking, & is continuing to show up in murder cases, w/ chat logs revealing the AI as a willing conversation partner in users’ worsening fixations on other real people.”

@mharrisondupre.bsky.social has done incredible work covering these lawsuits and the wild consequences of AI. bsky.app/profile/mhar...