Update: McDonald’s has issued a very strange response to the drama. Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

At the dawn of this century, Al Pacino starred in "S1m0ne," a satire about a down-on-his-luck director who creates a computer-generated "star" that conquers Hollywood. Fast forward nearly 25 years, ...

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Over half of new published articles are AI-generated. However, the percentage of AI-generated articles is plateauing. AI-generated articles don't perform well in search. You aren't imagining it: There ...

I've been on staff at PCMag for three years after a career change from working in Big Tech on the West Coast for six years. Through that experience, I got an up-close view of how software engineering ...

IT SOUNDS LIKE a typical country tune, for a few seconds at least. “Country Girls Make Do” opens with a toe-tapping beat and twangy strains of fiddles and guitar. You expect a song about whisky or ...

“It is confusing. It’s exciting, and in a world of GPS and constant signage, you always know where you are, where you’re going," said Taylor Cooley, owner of Cool Patch Pumpkins. The owner of a giant ...

Tilly Norwood is the creation of an AI production studio. Some of Hollywood's biggest stars and the union that represents them are speaking out against the creation of an AI-generated actress ...

Tilly Norwood has become one of the most divisive actresses in Hollywood — and she's not even a human being. The AI-generated actor was created by Eline Van der Velden, a Dutch actor and comedian who ...

AI slop isn’t limited to cringey cat videos on Facebook anymore; it has made its way into the workplace. Researchers from BetterUp Labs and Stanford’s Social Media Lab recently coined a term for ...