Victor Tangermann
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Senior editor at Futurism.com
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
7 days ago
NEW: Character.AI continues to host bots styled after prolific abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as roleplay "scenes" created to gamify Epstein's island. They aren't hidden. One roleplay is called "Epstein's Island Adventure."
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The Onion
8 days ago
This Weeks Onion Magazine: Still Supreme! Iranâs New Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei On Faith, Fitness, And Supremely Good Sex After 50
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NEW: Grammarly has changed its mind on its "Expert Review" feature that's been blatantly impersonating writers without their sign-off
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Grammarly Pulls Down Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission
Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grammarly-pulls-down-expert-review-feature
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
9 days ago
2026 and according to new reporting from CNN, CharacterAI has yet to fix its school shooter bots problem, which Futurism identified back in December 2024:
www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/a...
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that's a pretty rough-looking scab
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White House Provides Explanation of Scabby Mark Appearing on Trump's Neck
At an event today, onlookers noticed a "significant rash-like injury" on the right side of president Donald Trump's neck.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/mark-trump-neck
18 days ago
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joe a wilkins
25 days ago
Soon after we approached Temu for a comment on the dozens of peptide-ish products it had for sale, listings featuring glass vials and syringes started disappearing from the site. My latestđ
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It Seems Bad That Temu Is Selling Peptides
US consumers can now buy vials of experimental peptides from Temu for dirt-cheap prices, a sign that bio-hacking may be going mainstream.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/temu-peptides-biohacking
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
29 days ago
Made a video (!) about my story on chatbots reinforcing user fixations on other real people, and how that reinforcement can lead to real-world harm:
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horrifying bathroom mirror demon aside, sloppy AI image editing in real estate has turned into such an openly deceitful practice.
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Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror
Realtors love AI. But renters seeking a new home in the Washington, DC, area made a horrifying discovery while browsing listings.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/realtor-ai-photo-mirror
about 1 month ago
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it's definitely not simple to find a suitable illustration for the word 'Kafkaesque' (ask me how i know lol), but this definitely ain't it.
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Newspaper Makes Brain-Melting Error in AI-Generated Graphic
The Economic Times picked the word "Kafkaesque" as its "Word of the Day" -- but spelled it "Kafkaesliue" in an AI-generated graphic.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/newspaper-error-ai-generated-graphic
about 2 months ago
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Hypervisible
about 2 months ago
The complaint âargues that GPT-4o is a âdefectiveâ and âinherently dangerousâ product, and that OpenAI failed to warn users of foreseeable risks to their emotional and psychological health.â
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Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis
John Jacquez successfully managed a mental illness for years, he says. Then ChatGPT reinforced delusions, spiraling him into "AI psychosis."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mental-illness-chatgpt-psychosis-lawsuit
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joe a wilkins
about 2 months ago
NEW: We're publishing an astonishing outburst the Dep of Health and Human Services left in our inbox. In an unsolicited email about our coverage of a horrific vaccine experiment, the HHS insisted the Africa CDC was an unreliable source for information, calling it "fake" and "powerless."
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Trump's HHS Trashes Top African Health Organization as "Fake" and "Powerless"
The HHS is disparaging its colleagues at the Africa CDC in coarse terms, that are striking even by the standards of the Trump administration.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-hhs-africa-cdc
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updog sinclair
2 months ago
the kids are all right
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Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth
A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protestor-tears-ai-art-chews-teeth
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Faine Greenwood
2 months ago
truly these people do not have their shit together
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i strongly encourage anybody to support the (real) band on their Bandcamp
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King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff
3 months ago
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updog sinclair
4 months ago
Actually somewhat terrifying -- Grok is providing random people's home and work addresses to would-be stalkers
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-doxxing
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
4 months ago
Probably not great for the Hitler-admiring chatbot to also provide home addresses
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Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy's Home Address
It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.
https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-dave-portnoy
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an excellent piece by
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
, as captivating as it is depressing. a sad reality check on the current state of journalism
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalismâs AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
https://thelocal.to/investigating-scam-journalism-ai/
4 months ago
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glad to see NASA getting caught up in public re/ 3I/ATLAS -- they just released a bunch of observations its spacecraft made of 3I/ATLAS during the shutdown
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NASA Releases Long-Delayed Image of 3I/ATLAS
NASA finally released an early "peek" at the observations of its spacecraft of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS during a livestream today.
https://futurism.com/space/nasa-releases-3i-atlas-images
4 months ago
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Hypervisible
4 months ago
âCloseups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.â
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Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/christmas-mural-ai
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updog sinclair
4 months ago
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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Futurism
5 months ago
Look out!
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Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky
Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns â and counting.
https://trib.al/MeZTXZI
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updog sinclair
6 months ago
beyond parody
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RFK Jr. Sneezes Loudly While Trump Is Speaking
As Donald Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office to announce a Pfizer deal, his health secretary sneezed loudly.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/rfk-sneezes-trump
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had an interesting run-in on my Spotify Release Radar this morning, wondering why Volcano Choir had released an incredibly cheap-sounding single 12 years into their hiatus
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Bon Iver Side Project's Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song
A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.
https://futurism.com/future-society/bon-iver-side-project-ai-slop-spotify
6 months ago
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we're truly in the age of AI-powered dehumanization, by
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Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They're Trying to Peddle "Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer"
A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.
https://futurism.com/job-application-mock-interviews-alex
6 months ago
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updog sinclair
6 months ago
imo this is what the internet was made for
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A.R. Moxon
7 months ago
they say we all float down here, and we float very strongly, and a lot of people are saying we float at levels that have never been seen before
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Charlie Warzel
7 months ago
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AIâs enduring impacts is to make people feel like theyâre losing it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0Yxw_pOVM_AK6Q1K5aHOCSs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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7 months ago
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A massive overcorrection, horrifying malicious compliance, or just an incredibly dumb bug?
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Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer
It's been just over a month since Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI's Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as "MechaHitler" and targeting people wi...
https://futurism.com/grok-clouds-antisemitism
7 months ago
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so nick caved. come on, it was RIGHT there
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Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New âTupeloâ Video Starring an AI Elvis
On the Bad Seeds classicâs 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is âa grotesque mockery of what it is to be humanâ
https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-ai-new-tupelo-video-elvis-watch/
8 months ago
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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor
8 months ago
wow this is pretty damning if Trump really did write it
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elon will live to be 120 years old and be president like at least 17 times
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"He Just Went CRAZY": Trump Threatens to Terminate Elon Musk's Government Contracts
President Donald Trump threatened to terminate billionaire Elon Musk's "Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," escalating their feud.
https://futurism.com/trump-calls-terminating-elon-musk-government-contracts
10 months ago
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we all knew for a very long time this was gonna happen. still kinda wild to watch the chaos unfurl
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Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Shreds Elon Musk
Billionaire Elon Musk's bromance with president Donald Trump has officially exploded into an ugly, spite-fuelled, mud-slinging grudge match.
https://futurism.com/trump-shreds-musk
10 months ago
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updog sinclair
10 months ago
proactively imagining all the ways this is going to be a disaster
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The Washington Post Is Secretly Planning to Start Publishing Articles Created Using AI
The Washington Post has quietly been building an AI tool that takes much of the work out of writing as it attempts to recoup readership.
https://futurism.com/washington-post-ai-articles
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Allison Morrow
10 months ago
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good itâs going to ruin the global economy, youâd be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...
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The âwhite-collar bloodbathâ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good itâs going to ruin the global economy, youâd be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
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losing attitude control during Flight 9 could be a sign of yet another major setback for SpaceX
10 months ago
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look, i don't care what somebody gets off to, but this level of laziness and blatant attempts to rip off a well-established author just will not stand
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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style
A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.
https://futurism.com/fantasy-novel-ai-prompt-copy-style
10 months ago
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the writer got caught red-handed and definitely went far beyond using AI "for background." just embarrassing really. new by
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Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a âSummer Readsâ Guide Full of AI Slop
The Chicago Sun-Times, owned by Chicago Public Media, published an AI-generated reading list featuring mostly AI-fabricated books.
https://futurism.com/chicago-newspaper-ai-slop
10 months ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...
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Decapitated Dolphin in North Carolina Prompts $20,000 Reward Offer From U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/north-carolina-dolphin-reward.html
10 months ago
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10 months ago
truly, truly amazing things happening on x, the everything app
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Elon Muskâs Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About âWhite Genocideâ in Completely Unrelated Tweets
Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-grok-ai-white-genocide
10 months ago
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Foster Kamer
10 months ago
Team
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gets RESULTS! After
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
was the first to report on Soundcloud's sketchy TOS change forcing users to condone AI, they've now reversed course, and changed their policies:
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
Tldr, journalism still matters.
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SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artistsâ Music Following Furious Backlash
SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.
https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-policy-changed
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Seriously, what part of "explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence" did SoundCloud not understand? new by
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SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artistsâ Music Following Furious Backlash
SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.
https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-policy-changed
10 months ago
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10 months ago
NEW: The newspaper giant Gannett is mass-publishing automated lottery content in local papers across the country. In some states, the AI articles pointedly direct readers toward a gambling site with which Gannett has a financial relationship.
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Foster Kamer
11 months ago
Absolutely insane story developing in real time right now: SoundCloud updated its TOS to allow AI to train on EVERYTHING ANYONE UPLOADS, and its users are just finding out now.
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SoundCloud Quietly Forced Artists to Let AI Feast on Their Music
SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI training.
https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-terms-of-service
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11 months ago
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11 months ago
NEW: No one under 18 should be using *any* social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others.
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Jason Koebler
11 months ago
I for real canât stop thinking about âThe unnamed insider also claimed that Perry âregrets sharing the daisy with the world.ââ She showed us a daisy and we got mad at her and now her light is out SMH
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Elon Musk Realizes He's Dragging Tesla Into Ruin
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's plundering of the federal government has been incredibly bad for business, something that's dawning on him.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-realizes-tesla
11 months ago
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