Airbnb Host Accused of Using AI to Fake $16K in Damage
A woman booked an Airbnb for two and a half months, left after seven weeks, and thought that was the end of it. Then came the host’s damage claim: $16,000 ...
Tag: Artificial intelligence
AI Is Now Writing Obituaries—and Business Is (Unfortunately) Good
AI chatbot tools like ChatGPT are the new greeting cards, in a sense. A placid, prepackaged set of words meant to surmise complex emotions on behalf of someone who cannot ...
The Job Market Sucks Right Now—and AI Interviewers Are Making It Worse
The job market is a nightmare right now. Of course, companies are finding new and exciting ways to make it much worse. For instance, there was a time when prepping ...
ChatGPT Briefly Made Chat Logs Accessible on Google. Yikes.
OpenAI recently vowed to fight a court order demanding that it preserve all deleted ChatGPT conversations indefinitely. It was a move that alarmed users who were concerned that their ChatGPT therapy ...
Is AI Coming for Video Games Next?
“Am I real or not?” a digital woman asked in a Matrix-inspired demo initially released two years ago by the Australia-based Replica Studios. The woman sounds a lot more distressed ...
Don’t Use ChatGPT as Your Therapist—Unless You Want Your Private Information Leaked
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, is back at it again. Along with saying recently that ChatGPT’s newest model, GPT-5, is so good it’s actually scary, he’s gone on record about how ...
Meta Exec Joins BBC News For Key Artificial Intelligence Role
A Meta executive is heading to BBC News to oversee its adoption of AI. Anjali Kapoor was previously Meta’s Director for Media Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region but takes on ...
Florida deploys furry robot rabbits to fight invasive Burmese python overpopulation
Night of the Robbits! A water management district in Florida’s Everglades is using robot rabbits to help monitor and eventually eliminate its ever-growing population of invasive Burmese pythons that have ...
AI software company sues ex-worker for abusing expense policy
His expenses may have been artificial. An AI software firm is suing a former employee, alleging he abused the company’s expense policy to the tune of more than $700,000. BigID, ...
Hiltzik: Here’s the number that could halt the AI revolution in its tracks
The artificial intelligence camp loves big numbers. The sum raised by OpenAI in its latest funding round: $40 billion. Expected investments on AI by Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft this ...
