Glass Wings Blog: AI
1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
71% of Australian uni staff are using AI. What are they using it for? What about those who aren’t?
A banned promoter of cancer ‘cures’ was hijacked by genAI. Now the internet is ‘flooded with garbage’
‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event
A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem
A real issue: video game developers are being accused of using AI – even when they aren’t
A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
The abject weirdness of AI ads
The AEC wants to stop AI and misinformation. But it’s up against a problem that is deep and dark
Agents, Authors Question HarperCollins AI Deal
AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built
‘AI agents’ promise to arrange your finances, do your taxes, book your holidays – and put us all at risk
The AI boyfriend ticking time bomb
AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct
AI chatbots oversimplify scientific studies and gloss over critical details — the newest models are especially guilty
AI Checkers Forcing Kids To Write Like A Robot To Avoid Being Called A Robot
AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
AI Crawlers Are Harming Wikimedia, Bringing Open Source Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The Open Web At Risk
AI Darwin Awards 2025 Nominees
AI for life: how sovereign Wiradyuri ways of knowing can transform technology for good
AI free from bias and ideology is a fantasy – humans can’t organise data without distorting reality
The AI hype is just like the blockchain frenzy – here’s what happens when the hype dies
AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce
AI is creeping into the visual effects industry – and it could take the human touch out of film and TV
AI is for the birds: How machine learning can help predict and manage avian flu outbreaks
AI is fuelling a deepfake porn crisis in South Korea. What’s behind it – and how can it be fixed?
A.I. Is Helping Scholars Decipher the Epic of Gilgamesh
AI is inherently ageist. That’s not just unethical – it can be costly for workers and businesses
AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright
AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check
AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision
AI is set to transform science – but will we understand the results?
AI Is Spamming Open Source Repos With Fake Issues
AI may be exposing jobseekers to discrimination. Here’s how we could better protect them
AI ‘nudify’ sites are being sued for victimising people. How can we battle deepfake abuse?
AI overviews have transformed Google search. Here’s how they work – and how to opt out
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
AI systems are great at tests. But how do they perform in real life?
AI: The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly
AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state
AI videos are tricking tourists into visiting places that don’t exist. That’s just the beginning
AI will soon be able to audit all published research – what will that mean for public trust in science?
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office
AI-generated influencers: A new wave of cultural exploitation
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
An Post releases ‘Imagine Ireland’ AI stamp that’s also an NFT — in 2024
Animals in the machine: why the law needs to protect animals from AI
The apocalypse that wasn’t: AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture
‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English
As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI
Australia has led the way regulating gene technology for over 20 years. Here’s how it should apply that to AI
Australia is set to get more AI data centres. Local communities need to be more involved
Australian women are wary of AI being used in breast cancer screening – new research
‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows
Australia’s privacy regulator just dropped its case against ‘troubling’ facial recognition company Clearview AI. Now what?
Automated ‘Pravda’ Propaganda Network Retooled To Embed Pro-Russian Narratives Surreptitiously In Popular Chatbots
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
Black Teens’ Schoolwork Twice As Likely To Be Falsely Flagged As AI-Generated
Botanical time machines: AI is unlocking a treasure trove of data held in herbarium collections
Businesses can’t escape the AI revolution – so here’s how to build a culture of safe and responsible use
Can an AI chatbot of Dr Karl change climate sceptics’ minds? He’s willing to give it a try
Can you say no to your doctor using an AI scribe?
Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says
Chatbots won’t help anyone make weapons of mass destruction. But other AI systems just might
ChatGPT Dreams Up Fake Studies, Alaska Cites Them To Support School Phone Ban
ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem
The ChatGPT secret: is that text message from your friend, your lover – or a robot?
The ChatGPT Studio Ghibli Trend Weaponizes ‘Harmlessness’ to Manufacture Consent
ChatGPT-5 Just Changed My Mind — Generative AI Has No Place in My Classroom
Clones in the classroom: why universities must be wary of embracing AI-driven teaching tools
Come to sunny Melbourne! Don’t worry about the AI mutants invading the parks
Companies are betting on AI to help lift productivity. Workers need to be part of the process
Composing music with AI isn't new, but recent advances have serious implications for the music industry
Copyright Licensing For AI Training Won’t Make Anything “Fair”
Could AI help save the planet? Four ways it’s already making a world of difference
Creative progress or mass theft? Why a major AI art auction is provoking wonder – and outrage
CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
‘Dangerous nonsense’: AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon
Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same
Disney and Universal vs. Midjourney: A landmark copyright fight over genAI
The dispute causing empty shelves at Woolies is a test case for companies using AI and automation on workers
Distrust in AI is on the rise – but along with healthy scepticism comes the risk of harm
Does AI really boost productivity at work? Research shows gains don’t come cheap or easy
DragonCon ejects AI ‘artist’, to approval of all
Editor-In-Chief Of RT, Russia’s Main Propaganda Network, Says Many Of Its Presenters Are AI-Generated – If You Can Believe Her
Elon Musk Doesn't Understand AI
Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It)
Evidence shows AI systems are already too much like humans. Will that be a problem?
Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report
For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. But an AI-powered Auslan avatar can help
Forget AI-generated music, this music was composed using DNA sequences
Former Miss America’s Australian nuclear tour clouded by Chinese AI blow to her employer
GenAI's dirty secret: It's set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste
Generative AI and deepfakes are fuelling health misinformation. Here’s what to look out for so you don’t get scammed
Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it
Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’. 5 reasons why this idea is misleading
Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech
GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
The government says more people need to use AI. Here’s why that’s wrong
Government test shows humans far outperforming AI because they understand the task better
The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
Harnessing AI to improve eye health
The hidden legal risk in your AI workflow
How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
How AI is being used to create sophisticated scams that leave even experts second-guessing
How we tricked AI chatbots into creating misinformation, despite ‘safety’ measures
Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China
Hungary’s new biometric surveillance laws violate the AI Act
I am tired of AI
‘I can’t be friends with the machine’: what audio artists working in games think of AI
‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots
I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course – here’s what I learned about the future of education
I got generative AI to attempt an undergraduate law exam. It struggled with complex questions
I Want to Be a Teacher, Not an AI Detective
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?
The Illusion of Intelligence: Why LLMs Are Not the Thinking Machines We Hope For
I'm Now Terrified of AI, And You Should Be Too
In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks
In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots
Industrial-scale deepfake abuse caused a crisis in South Korean schools. Here’s how Australia can avoid the same fate
Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist
Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?
Is Including Hidden AI Prompts In Academic Papers Gaming The Peer Review System — Or Keeping It Honest?
Is OpenAI A Ponzi Scheme?
‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?
I’ve got bad news for you if you use ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini as your main search tool - AI web search isn't worth your time, yet
Judge Pulls Opinion Full Of AI-Style Hallucinations, But No One Is Willing To Say It Was Written By AI
Juicy Licensing Deals With AI Companies Show That Publishers Don’t Actually Care About Creators
LA Times Billionaire Owner Hilariously Thinks He Can Solve Media Bias With ‘AI’
Lacklustre governance renders AI nothing more than biased bots
Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant"
‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI
LJ Hooker branch used AI to generate real estate listing with non-existent schools
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
LLMs in Scientific Research: The Error(s) of Their Ways
Local governments are using AI without clear rules or policies, and the public has no idea
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff
MIT researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated
New research reveals Australian authors say no to AI using their work – even if money is on the table
No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans
Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance
OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert
People interviewed by AI for jobs face discrimination risks, Australian study warns
Pluralistic: AI's "human in the loop" isn't
Reality Hits AI Very Hard Again
Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia
Researchers created a chatbot to help teach a university law class – but the AI kept messing up
Researchers jailbreak AI robots to run over pedestrians, place bombs for maximum damage, and covertly spy
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Rise of AI and loneliness drives demand for robot pets
Robot Vacuums That Collect Photos, Videos And Audio Of Users To Train AI Models Start Yelling Obscenities And Chasing Dogs
Robots and AI are helping Australia achieve its ambition of game-changing ultra low cost solar
Russia shares AI images of Hurricane Milton as disinformation abounds in US
Sam Altman’s AI Empire Relies on Brutal Labor Exploitation
Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights
Senator David Pocock creates AI deepfakes of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to call for ban ahead of election
Senior lawyer apologises after filing AI-generated submissions in Victorian murder case
‘Shit in, shit out’: AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced
‘Side job, self-employed, high-paid’: behind the AI slop flooding TikTok and Facebook
Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women
Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future
SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your posts
Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?
stopping AI from taking your job by taking AI's job
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
Tackling The AI Bots That Threaten To Overwhelm The Open Web
Tech companies claim AI can recognise human emotions. But the science doesn’t stack up
Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning
‘Tone deaf’: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI
Tow Center Study Again Shows “AI” Sucks At Conveying Accurate News
Understanding the ‘Slopocene’: how the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings
The unspoken rule of conversation that explains why AI chatbots feel so human
Use of AI in property valuation is on the rise – but we need greater transparency and trust
‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review
WA lawyer referred to regulator after preparing documents with AI-generated citations for nonexistent cases
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality
What I Learned When My AI Kermit Slop Went Viral
What is ‘model collapse’? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom
What makes a good search engine? These 4 models can help you use search in the age of AI
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
Why Generative AI’s Lack Of Modularity Means It Can’t Be Meaningfully Open, Is Unreliable, And Is A Technological Dead End
Why Powerful But Hard To Detect Backdoors Could Become A Routine Problem For Open Source Projects Because Of AI
Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop
Why We Don’t Know AI's True Water Footprint
Will AI pull the career ladder up out of reach – or just change what it looks like?
With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people
YouTube’s AI editing scandal reveals how reality can be manipulated without our consent
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