برچسب: AI
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I Tested the Four Biggest AI Browsers, and Here's What I Found
Since the days of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, you’ve always have a choice when it comes to the program you use to access the internet—but we now have a whole new breed of software to consider: The AI browser. These browsers place AI models front and center, even more so than integrations like Gemini…
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Android Users Can Now Make Sora AI Slop Too
If you’re keeping up with generative AI, especially generative AI video models, then you’ve probably heard about Sora , OpenAI’s short-form AI video app. Even though the app has only been available for a bit over a month, you’ve probably seen Sora videos on your other feeds—whether you realized it or not . Sora is…
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Character.ai Will Soon Start Banning Kids From Using Its Chatbots
Leading AI chatbot platform Character.ai announced yesterday that it will no longer allow anyone under 18 to have open-ended conversations with its chatbots. Character.ai’s parent company, Character Technologies, said the ban will go into effect by Nov. 25, and in the meantime, it will impose time limits on children and “transition younger users to alternative…
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You Can Now Pay to Generate More Sora AI Videos, and I'm Concerned
Sora, OpenAI’s short-form AI video generator, has been out for just about a month now, and already, it’s helping to spread disinformation on social media. Accounts share Sora generations without any transparency, sometimes with the Sora watermark removed, and while shrewd observers see through the AI, many people scrolling by don’t think twice and believe…
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Meta Is Adding More AI Slop to Your Feeds
I am extremely concerned about the prevalence of AI content on our social media feeds . Now that just about anyone can generate hyper-realistic videos with a simple text prompt, I fear that disinformation will rise exponentially, distorting worldviews faster than algorithms have so far been able to do. So you can imagine how I…
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Elon Musk’s 'Grokipedia' Is Certainly No Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a treasured online resource that, despite massive changes across the web, has managed to remained truly great to this day. I, alongside millions of other users, visit the site daily to learn something new or double-check existing knowledge. In an age of non-stop AI slop, Wikipedia is something of an antidote. If you…
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How I Used Smart Glasses to Trick a Bartender Into Giving Me a Free Drink
I recently reviewed Even Realities G1 smart glasses (they’re very cool) and the first real-world thing I used them for was scamming someone. I told a local bartender I had an encyclopedic knowledge of film, and I would answer the hardest movie trivia question he could come up with in exchange for a drink. After…
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This Upcoming Google Photos Feature Turns Your Selfies Into Memes
Memes can be fun. But when a big corporation decides to get in on the action, the fun usually dies. As spotted by Android Authority , Google is currently working on a new feature for Google Photos called “Me Meme,” though Android Authority thinks it could be called “Meme Me” upon release. The feature is…
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Sora Will Soon Let You Make Cameos of Your Pets
Sora , OpenAI’s short-form AI video platform, has been available for iPhones for the past few weeks. Users have spent that time generating hyper-realistic vertical videos that, despite their watermarks, might already be fooling people on the internet . I, for one, see nothing good about a tool that can make these types of videos…