Victor Tangermann
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Senior editor at Futurism.com
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jon christian
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This annoys me SO much: reddit has a perfectly functional mobile website for users like me who don't want to download their datamining app, so they've now BROKEN THE SITE COMPLETELY and replaced it with a giant popup demanding you download the app instead
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Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead
A newly-implemented pop-up â which can't be closed â begs users to "get the app to keep using Reddit," frustrating users.
https://futurism.com/future-society/reddit-breaks-mobile-website-download-app
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
29 days ago
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting.
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In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control
In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.
https://futurism.com/future-society/forbes-mass-shooting-bets-gun-control
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The Jack Parsons Project
28 days ago
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Harry McCracken
about 1 month ago
I do hope this all turns out to be an unfortunate short-lived trend rather than the future of news.
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Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets
Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, as controversy over prediction markets gains steam.
https://futurism.com/future-society/google-news-polymarket
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jon christian
about 1 month ago
NEW: the New York Times has substantially updated its article about a sleazy AI startup after our reporting
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jon christian
about 1 month ago
NEW: Google News is now prominently featuring Polymarket bets, right alongside real/trustworthy publications My $0.02: you couldn't come up with a better way to undermine any remaining trust in the news media in a lab
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Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets
Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles.
https://futurism.com/future-society/google-news-polymarket
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
about 1 month ago
NEW: The NYT said that the AI-powered GLP-1 middleman startup Medvi â which is reportedly on track to do $1.8b in sales â cleaned up its act after taking deceptive marketing "shortcuts." But it didn't. More on: fake Medvi clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning...
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Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That's Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, and Other Glaring Red F...
The New York Times ran a glowing profile of a company called Medvi that's using AI to sell GLP-1s. The truth is more complicated.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-york-times-medvi-ai-glp1s
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Some breaking news: NASA has confirmed that what appears to be a jar of Nutella floating through the Orion capsule minutes before the crew broke the record for the farthest humans have traveled from Earth was not, in fact, product placement.
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Lone Jar of Nutella Drifts Around Cabin of Moon Spacecraft
A lone jar of Nutella could be seen floating through the cabin of NASA's Moon astronauts minutes before they set an important record.
https://futurism.com/space/nutella-moon-spacecraft
about 1 month ago
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not sure what Jay Graber expected to happen here. also, what's the expected number of people actually into/willing to vibe code their own bluesky app? beyond Graber herself?
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Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform's New AI
Bluesky's latest foray into AI isn't exactly sitting well with what appears to be the vast majority of the platform's user base.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-users-disgust-new-ai
about 2 months ago
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jon christian
about 2 months ago
whomst could have possibly predicted this
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Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform's New AI
Bluesky's latest foray into AI isn't exactly sitting well with what appears to be the vast majority of the platform's user base.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-users-disgust-new-ai
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
about 2 months ago
People are publicly accusing â without evidence â the NYT of publishing AI slop in its "Modern Love" column. This is all speculation based on writing style. What *is* real? The (earned!) AI paranoia that people are feeling in an uncanny, AI-packed internet:
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New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article
People are speculating that an essay published in the New York Times' "Modern Love" was AI-generated. What's definitely real? AI paranoia.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-york-times-accused-ai-article
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months ago
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
2 months 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
3 months ago
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joe a wilkins
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
4 months ago
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Hypervisible
4 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
4 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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jon christian
4 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
4 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
5 months ago
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jon christian
6 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
6 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/
6 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
6 months ago
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Hypervisible
6 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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jon christian
6 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
6 months ago
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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Futurism
7 months ago
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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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jon christian
8 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
8 months ago
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we're truly in the age of AI-powered dehumanization, by
@joeonhere.bsky.social
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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
8 months ago
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jon christian
8 months ago
imo this is what the internet was made for
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A.R. Moxon
9 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
9 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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Coach Finstock
9 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
9 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/
10 months ago
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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor
10 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
12 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
12 months ago
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jon christian
12 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
12 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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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
12 months ago
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@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
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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
12 months ago
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