When AI Goes Wrong: From Cautionary Tales to All-Out Disasters

When AI comes for mushroom foragers.

Cute crochet patterns on Etsy are sometimes advertised with AI-generated images, Etsy users say, resulting in unhappy customers and 1-star reviews.

We tested the tech industry’s efforts to control their chatbots and avoid controversy. The results showed an industry copying off each other’s homework.

Even Poynter’s guide for using generative AI ethically isn’t immune from those who won’t.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, and it’s bringing a new era of technology that is already creating and impacting the world. It was the

AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes.

AI ghosts, the recreation of digital versions of the dead, may sound like a wonderful idea to those dealing with the pain of loss but this technology could seriously disrupt the grieving process

Large language models (LLMs), including those that power chatbots such as ChatGPT, make racist judgements on the on basis of users’ dialect, a preprint study has found.

Election officials are important enough to fake — and public enough to make it easy to do — but anonymous enough that voters may easily be tricked.

Open source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn.

New data centers are springing up every week. Can the Earth sustain them?

In our tech columnist’s tests, new chatbots in popular tax services were unhelpful or wrong as much as half of the time.

Health care regulators say they need more people and more power to monitor the new tech. Doctors are already using unregulated artificial intelligence tools such as note-taking virtual assistants and predictive software that helps them diagnose and treat diseases.

AI tech is being used to appropriate and profit off of major Black artists in music (like Drake, The Weeknd & Beyoncé) leaving many to wonder if this is where the industry’s future is headed and if Black creators will even have a place in it.

“I don’t know how else you can put sprinkles on shit, but we were trying to be the sprinkles on shit.”

Generative AI might cause massive election misinformation problems. Here’s how.

AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.

Employers are letting artificial intelligence conduct job interviews. Candidates are trying to beat the system.

Generative AI is not built to honestly mirror reality, no matter what its creators say.

Hackers are using AI tools to improve scripts, phishing emails, and more.

Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren’t transparent, new research from Mozilla says.

A year ago, a rogue A.I. tried to break up my marriage. Did the backlash help make chatbots too boring?

AI will change porn forever, adult entertainment companies claim. It’s unclear who will benefit.

When two former Meta employees dug into why the website of Iowa’s Clayton County Register was spewing dubious posts about stocks, they uncovered a network of sites slinging seemingly AI-made content.

I thought piracy was bad, but I've now seen something much worse

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