Many of the leading voices in AI have co-signed yet another ominous open letter warning that we should be "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI." However, the voices shouting for regulation the l...
The final panel of the day at our Frontiers conference this year was hosted by me--though it was going to be tough to follow Benj's panel because I didn't have a cute intro planned. The topic we were ...
[photo1]Parker HallLike people in many fields, we here on the WIRED Gear desk are mildly concerned that ChatGPT is coming for our jobs. But we feel relatively safe because it's our job to test th...
[photo1]Kate KnibbsHere's the thing about podcasts: There are too many of them. More than 4 million, to be precise, according to the database Podcast Index. In the past three days alone, nearly 103,00...
On Wednesday at Google I/O 2023, Google announced three new features designed to help people spot AI-generated fake images in search results, reports Bloomberg. The features will identify the known or...
Google announced a few new features to the existing Google Search at I/O, in addition to the new Google Search Generative Experience. These new features include perspectives, about this image and AI-...
[photo1]Will BedingfieldOne of the more harrowing reads for writers concerned about artificial intelligence encroaching on their livelihoods is a study commissioned by OpenAI itself. Published in Marc...
Warner Bros. Discovery announced Friday that its streaming business will turn a profit in 2023. The company previously said it expected to break even by 2024 and become profitable in 2025."It is an im...
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is seeking to restrict the use of generative AI in writing film and TV scripts as part of an ongoing strike, reports Reuters. The concerns come at a time when anxiet...
While many fear a future where AI-generated media becomes indistinguishable from traditional media, destroying society and/or civilization in the process, we aren't quite there yet. Exhibit A comes in...
A certain type of music has been inescapable on TikTok in recent weeks: clips of famous musicians covering other artists' songs, with combinations that read like someone hit the randomizer button. The...
The AI Drake track that mysteriously went viral over the weekend is the start of a problem that will upend Google in one way or another -- and it's really not clear which way it will go.Here's the bas...
Following on the heels of Twitter's decision to restrict third-party access to its data, Reddit today announced that it'll begin charging for use of its API.It's not a blanket policy change. As report...
Universal Music Group has told streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, to block artificial intelligence services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs, according to ...
Since last year, a group of artists have been using an AI image generator called Midjourney to create still photos of films that don't exist. They call the trend "AI cinema." We spoke to one of its pr...
On March 3, LinkedIn introduced collaborative articles, a new type of content that LinkedIn publishes with the help of AI and LinkedIn users. While it was marketed as an initiative to surface the expe...
Over the weekend, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a puffy white coat went viral on Twitter, and apparently many people believed it was a real image. Since then, the puffy pontiff has ins...
Technology news publisher The Verge has published a 600-word article half-filled with ChatGPT content and a heavy dose of sarcasm that has been outranking more in-depth, well-researched and arguably m...
"We're at a tipping point where AI is going to break trust in what you see and hear -- and democracies can't survive when people don't agree on facts. You have to have a baseline of understanding of f...
As generative AI technologies like GPT-4 and Midjourney have rapidly gotten more sophisticated and their creative use has exploded in popularity, the US Copyright Office has issued guidance today to c...