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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
How good are your AI-detecting skills?

Reality Check is a simple game where you get 10 seconds per image, 60 seconds total, to identify which images are AI and which are real—it’s not easy. I went on pure gut instinct and only got 18 of 26 right.

(Also: The irony of a spot-the-AI game built with AI doesn’t escape me.)

All roads lead to cable

In their fight to win the war for our attention, streamers are re-creating cable from first principles.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Now Trump is trying to rename AI too.

First, it was the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Kennedy Center. Then Lake Ontario. And let’s not forget about the Department of Defense. Now the president is trying to leave his mark on artificial intelligence. The only real surprise is that American Intelligence wasn’t on his short list.

Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Anthropic launched a bio lab.

It’s been a poorly kept secret that the company was working towards building its own wet lab. It was hiring biologists and even bought startup Coefficient Bio in April. Now it’s confirmed to TechCrunch that a lab is up and operating in the Bay Area.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking Cantonese during an interview.

Norwood was on Piers Morgan Uncensored to discuss its AI slop movie, Misaligned. There’s a painful lag between questions and answers, and it routinely fails to answer the actual question. But the most surreal moment comes when Norwood glitches mid-answer and starts speaking Cantonese.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
An activist crashed a Canva AI event.

“Best-case scenario, the men handling this technology are completely incompetent. Worst-case scenario, we are all being led into a disaster.” Eventually, the woman was escorted from the building, but not before disrupting the company’s celebration of flooding the world with awful AI-generated fliers.

Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now

The chiptune rock band formed in 2004 on forums and remains very online to this day.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto