Glass Wings Blog: AI
The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister
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 critique of Cara.app: the 'No AI' Instagram and Artstation copycat child.
‘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 weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
A world-first law in Europe is targeting artificial intelligence. Other countries can learn from it
The abject weirdness of AI ads
Adults Are Losing Their Shit About Teen Mental Health On Social Media, While Desperate Teens Are Using AI For Mental Help
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
AI "art" and uncanniness
AI art has no anti-cooption immune system
AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct
AI Checkers Forcing Kids To Write Like A Robot To Avoid Being Called A Robot
AI could revolutionise environmental planning – if we don’t get trapped in the ‘iron cage of rationality’
AI Crawlers Are Harming Wikimedia, Bringing Open Source Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The Open Web At Risk
AI datacentres to strain Australia’s energy supply, spike prices without change, expert says
AI does stand-up: ‘cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist’
AI Doomerism Is Just Marketing
AI for life: how sovereign Wiradyuri ways of knowing can transform technology for good
AI Hype: “Billions of dollars will be incinerated” Business Analysts Warn
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 not a magic wand – it has built-in problems that are difficult to fix and can be dangerous
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 overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
AI propaganda campaign in Rwanda has been pushing pro-Kagame messages – a dangerous new trend in Africa
AI Safety for Fleshy Humans
AI: The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly
AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state
AI tutors could be coming to the classroom – but who taught the tutor, and should you trust them?
"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
Air pollution in South Africa: affordable new devices use AI to monitor hotspots in real time
An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge
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
Artificial intelligence is taking the consulting industry by storm – should we be concerned?
As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
Australia has led the way regulating gene technology for over 20 years. Here’s how it should apply that to AI
Australian women are wary of AI being used in breast cancer screening – new research
Australians say AI shouldn’t produce political news, but it’s OK for sport: new research
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
Businesses can’t escape the AI revolution – so here’s how to build a culture of safe and responsible use
Can AI help boost accessibility? These researchers tested it for themselves
Canada warns of AI-driven Russian 'bot farm' spreading disinformation online
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
ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour
ChatGPT predicts tremendous role for ChatGPT in UK government
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
Chinese social media users hilariously mock AI video fails
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
The Coming AI Bust
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”
Cosmos Magazine publishes AI-generated articles, drawing criticism from journalists, co-founders
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
‘Dangerous nonsense’: AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon
The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.
Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia
Deepfakes of Australian politicians including Penny Wong and Katy Gallagher used in investment scams
Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same
The dispute causing empty shelves at Woolies is a test case for companies using AI and automation on workers
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
Emory University Suspends Students Over AI Study Tool The School Gave Them $10k To Build And Promoted
Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It)
Evidence shows AI systems are already too much like humans. Will that be a problem?
Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking the scammer a question only CEO Benedetto Vigna could answer
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
Former Miss America’s Australian nuclear tour clouded by Chinese AI blow to her employer
From climate change to landfill, AI promises to solve Earth’s big environmental problems – but there’s a hitch
Generative AI and deepfakes are fuelling health misinformation. Here’s what to look out for so you don’t get scammed
Generative AI hype is ending – and now the technology might actually become useful
Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it
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 Grimy Residue of the AI Bubble
The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
Harnessing AI to improve eye health
Honest Government Ad | AI
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 to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
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 got generative AI to attempt an undergraduate law exam. It struggled with complex questions
I Want to Be a Teacher, Not an AI Detective
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
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 new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots
Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?
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 Experiments With ChatGPT, And It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds
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
‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI
Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
LJ Hooker branch used AI to generate real estate listing with non-existent schools
LLMs can solve any word problem! As long as they can crib the answer
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
Local governments are using AI without clear rules or policies, and the public has no idea
Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff
Most Australians are worried about artificial intelligence, new survey shows. Improved media literacy is vital
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
Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’
Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers
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
Rice Farming Gets an AI Upgrade
Rise of AI and loneliness drives demand for robot pets
The rise of the ‘machine defendant’ – who’s to blame when an AI makes mistakes?
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
Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights
Scholars: AI isn’t “hallucinating” — it’s bullshitting
Senator David Pocock creates AI deepfakes of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to call for ban ahead of election
‘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
Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it’s real
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
Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’
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
Tech companies claim AI can recognise human emotions. But the science doesn’t stack up
This Fatal Flaw Could Kill The AI Industry
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
Turning Trash Into Treasure: How AI Is Revolutionizing Waste Sorting
Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help
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
“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
What makes a good tree? We used AI to ask birds
Why an ‘AI health coach’ won’t solve the world’s chronic disease problems
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 We Don’t Know AI's True Water Footprint
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