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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
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AI-Powered Buzzfeed Ads Suggest You Buy Hat of Man Who Died by Suicide
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Nintendo Sues Streamer of Emulated, Pre-Released Games
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Reddit’s ‘Interesting as Fuck’ Community Rules That AI-Generated Video Is Not Interesting
An AI-generated video of a cute parrot got thousands of upvotes before moderators removed it and locked the thread.
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The Vatican’s Anime Mascot Is Now an AI Porn Sensation
AI and Rule 34 have inevitably turned the Catholic Church’s cute Luce mascot into very graphic pornography.
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Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers
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Microsoft Provided Gender Detection AI on Accident
Microsoft said it would retire its AI-powered gender classifier in 2022. Now it says some users still had access to it because of an error.
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When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female?
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Scientists and Archivists Worry Epic Games’ Control of the 3D Model Market Will ‘Destroy’ Cultural Heritage
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Twitch Quietly Blocked New Users From Israel and Palestine Since October 7
“We deeply regret this unacceptable miss, and the confusion it has caused,” Twitch said.