Mercurial billionaire Elon Musk is famously prolific as a father: at last count, the man has sired 14 known children — though there may be far more in the shadows — while frequently expressing deep concern about the world’s falling birthrate. So why is it that he’s been rolling out a slate of AI “companions” via

Streaming slop, meet AI slop. Netflix is bragging that, for the first time, it’s used generative AI in one of its original, scripted TV shows, Ars Technica reports, signaling its championing of a technology that the streamer claims will shorten production times, lower costs, all while supposedly enhancing the quality of its series and films.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an “impending fraud crisis” in which practically anybody will be able to imitate not only the voice but even the likeness of others, using the type of AI that his company is helping pioneer. During a chat with Federal Reserve vice chair Michelle Bowman in Washington, DC, Altman argued

Historians don’t know when the Ancient Roman text “Res Gestae Divi Augusti,” a chronicle of Emperor Augustus’s deeds, was first written, since these kind of epigraphs tend to not contain any written dates. Enter our hero Aeneas — not the mythological forefather of Rome, but a generative AI model that’s been trained on Ancient Roman texts.

A little while back I started on my path into Artificial intelligence. It started off with Midjourney (which I still use from time to time) and moved on to Stable Diffusion (Automatic1111 and CumfyUI) and now Gradio (Fooocus). I have also used ChatGPT in different contexts, from generating specific code to getting a list of topic