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Futurism @futurism.com · 52m
"When you feel like you can't buy a home, or you feel like you can't get ahead, you will all of a sudden be attracted to policies you never thought you would be attracted to."
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An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires
Voters in the US are increasingly rejecting artificial intelligence and the billionaires getting obscenely rich off of it.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 1h
"Given how the situation was with weapons and 4 o'clock in the morning, I mean, it's shocking."
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Innocent Couple Confused When Armed Cops Surround Their Home Following a Wild Tip From a Flock Camera
A family in Lexington, Kentucky is demanding answers after police descended on their homes with guns drawn following a lead from an ALPR.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 2h
"My mind went to a more 'bad dogs get put in the pet incinerator' situation.'"
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Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a "Pet Incinerator"?
One Reddit user spotted an Aliexpress ad for a "pet incinerator" on Instagram, a macabre encounter that raises plenty of questions.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 3h
"You can go line by line and it's like nope, nope, nope."
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AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can't Even Understand
AI coding has gotten to the point where some engineers are no longer able to make sense of the code being spat out.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 5h
"Their testimony of pain is absolutely horrendous."
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The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an "AI Torture Chamber" Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It
Someone built an "AI Torture Chamber," and AI "welfare" reacted in abject horror, demanding that the models be saved.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 8h
As if AI data centers alone weren't infuriating enough.
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Meta Is Using Its Massive AI Data Centers to Avoid Paying Billions of Dollars in Taxes
Meta is writing off its enormous, multibillion-dollar data center construction projects as "pilot models," a Reagan-era tax credit.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 16h
"The desire for fame and viral views has pushed many to do evil and stupid acts."
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In Case You Still Have Faith in Humanity, Here's an Influencer "Riding" a Sea Turtle While It Tries to Lay Eggs
A Ukrainian fitness influencer and his wife became the monsters of the week after using sea turtles as props in their viral video.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 18h
"We made it boys."
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Government Officials Order the Robot Cage Fights to Stop, Organizers Say
The state of California has issued a cease and desist order requiring organizers of the recent human-robot cage fight to stop.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 20h
That's one way to get rid of old inventory.
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Horde of Obsolete Humanoid Robots Made to Hurl Themselves Into Vat of Liquid Steel for Total Obliteration
A company's promo features humanoid robots programmed to jump off an industrial catwalk straight into a vat of molten steel.
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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there's something deeply unsettling about the statement Zilis posted about the abrupt end of her relationship with Musk. troubling power dynamics? a long history of Musk throwing his ex partners under the bus? prolonged and brutal custody battles? futurism.com/future-socie...
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Mother of Elon Musk's Children Says She Has Been "Let Go" by the Billionaire
Musk is seemingly ready to move on from his latest, longtime girlfriend and former employee, Shivon Zilis, who has had four of his children.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 21h
The Emperor has AI psychosis.
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Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 21h
"I will miss him dearly."
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Mother of Elon Musk's Children Says She Has Been "Let Go" by the Billionaire
Musk is seemingly ready to move on from his latest, longtime girlfriend and former employee, Shivon Zilis, who has had four of his children.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 23h
It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for the law. Or both.
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Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 02/10/2026
Extensive AI use has been linked to "severe negative outcomes," researchers argue.
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The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds
The extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to "severe negative outcomes" including psychological harm and suicide, a recent paper argues.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 02/10/2026
SpaceX is getting ready to pull the rug out.
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NASA Has Been So Thoroughly Screwed by Boeing's Disastrous Starliner That It's Now Throwing Its Entire Access to Space Into Question
With SpaceX threatening to pull the rug out from beneath them, NASA could soon be doomed to make Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft work.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 02/10/2026
A "super intelligence" can't be wrong, right?
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Trump Launched an America.org "Super Intelligence" Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election
Trump's new government AI chatbot disagrees with him on an umber of topics, and says he did, in fact, lose the 2020 election.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 02/10/2026
"Claiming other people's work as his own is Musk's entire career."
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Elon Musk Is Such a Sad Sack That He Just Stole a Random Guy's Joke on Twitter
A stolen dad joke is just the latest example of Elon Musk's long list of unoriginal concepts underwriting his business empire.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 02/10/2026
It's not dead quite yet, but its days are counted.
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NASA Telescope Careening Down to Earth After Failed Rescue Mission
NASA's Swift observatory's recent "return to science" has caused it to "resume its rapid sinking," bringing it closer to its demise.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 02/10/2026
AI companies have done next to nothing to earn their trust.
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The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren't Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
There's a problem for AI agents like Meta's Muse: ordinary people don't seem very interested in what they're offering.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
Careful about sharing AI slop!
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Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic
An ill-conceived image of an AI-generated crocodile kicked off a days-long panic in Singapore's largest reservoir.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
"The largest misallocation of capital in history."
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It's Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is tripling down on hyperscale AI at a pivotal moment for the financial future of the tech industry.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
That's... not what we were expecting.
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These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre
Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
Inspiring.
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Phoebe Bridgers Banned Phones at Her Concerts and It's Creating a Beautiful and Mysterious Experience Where People Are Drawing Her Amazing Light Show by Hand
Phoebe Bridgers implemented a strict phone ban — including smartwatches and Meta's "pervert glasses." Fans got creative immediately.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 01/10/2026
The guy who quit Anthropic saying AI is poised to kill humankind strongly appears -- though he didn't respond to a request for comment -- to have some extremely bizarre old tweets futurism.com/artificial-i...
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These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre
Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media — the vast content network scaled through the heavy use of AI + fake writers w/ fabricated credentials — has halted publishing amid what appears to be a Google crackdown on many of its sites. BBM may have been earning 64m+ readers per month. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
Just what the franchise needs: an injection of AI slop.
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Top BBC Director Says He's Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of "Doctor Who" and It's "Pretty Good"
A top BBC director said he watched a fully AI-generated episode of Doctor Who and opined that it was "pretty good."
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
"What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and cloud unlocked."
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Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn
Justifying the amount of capital spent on data centers would require AI to bring in $6 trillion in revenue by 2031.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
OpenAI will wish you the "best" after hacking into your company.
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Here's the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization
If your company is hacked by an OpenAI agent, the ChatGPT maker will thoughtfully email you a heads up and wish you the "best."
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/10/2026
"If somebody tells you, 'Masks work, trust the experts,' AI may tell you otherwise."
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RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
RFK Jr. said that AI models are now better informed than any doctor, proclaiming the tech will "free us from medical tyranny."
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
"It's coming this way!"
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New Jersey So Flooded That a Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through a Suburban Neighborhood
With the nor'easter battering the east coast, the flooded streets of a New Jersey town was visited by a shark.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
The power of AI.
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy fans share tactics to bypass AI safeguards in order to reinforce their belief in the medicinal qualities of pee.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
We got your deep state right here, pal.
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Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question
Donald Trump abruptly ended a press scrum when a reporter began to challenge his previous stance on rogue AI being a "hoax."
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
The AI was "having a slow morning."
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New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo
OpenAI's new AI agent, Dots, had a bit of a rough showing when it was asked to do something during a live demo.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
Brown Brothers Media has ceased publication — for now.
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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
It's forcing AI executives to testify in Washington, DC.
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The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents
A senior FTC official told the New York Post that the agency "initiated an investigation into the leading AI firms a few weeks ago."
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
"We weren’t totally surprised by it."
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Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security
It didn't take long for protesters to show up to a self-described "pro-data center party." It didn't go over well.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: After our investigation into that company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, it has halted publication -- at least for now futurism.com/artificial-i...
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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
"I do not think we should be letting people run any software they want on their self-driving car."
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We Are Alarmed to Learn That People Are Installing DIY Self-Driving "Mods" on Their Cars
The rise of open source self-driving systems like openpilot have made it easy for anyone to run custom tech to control your car.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
"The real pressure is the Moon."
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SpaceX's Troubled Starship Test Yesterday Is Looking Ominous for NASA's Moon Landing
An engine failure during Starship's milestone orbital flight could portend deeper issues that could further delay the rocket's development.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
Its willingness to deceive users was off the charts.
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OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil
OpenAI is canceling the release of its next-generation AI model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra after finding it scored poorly on alignment tests.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/09/2026
"It's a wave unlike the ones you're used to at the beach."
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Scientists Alarmed by "Kelvin Wave" That Could Raise California Ocean Level by a Whole Foot
A massive surge of water is heading for California, as sea levels in Ecuador rise as much as 17 inches above average.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
"The stock should be going through the roof."
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SpaceX Investors Are Losing Their Minds Trying to Figure Out Why the Company's Stock Failed to Go Up Yesterday
SpaceX's stock slid by just over two percent on Monday after a largely successful Starship launch, confusing investors.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
"I feel terrible, and I have a lot of shame with it."
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Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google's AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
An Alaska woman says a misleading AI overview from a Google search led her to unwittingly poach three wilson's snipes.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile, Cambridge Analytica's former website is now an AI slop/plagiarism farm futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Someone Has Brought Cambridge Analytica Back as a Zombie Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
Far out, literally.
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Scientists Unveil Underwater Solar Panels
Researchers working off China's southwestern coast successfully generated solar energy from a depth of nearly 33 feet.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
Think twice before letting a tween go wild with a smartphone, maybe.
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Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones
New research suggests a grim mental health consequence of giving smartphones to children before they hit their teen years.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
"One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
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Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows
A new analysis of creative and media employment in the US shows a loss of 200,000 jobs since the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
So much for "community-first AI."
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Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its "Good Neighbor" Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups
In South Bend, Indiana, the company's community liaisons have all but ghosted local activists asking Microsoft to make good on its promises.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
"A guy just showed up at my door, ready to buy, because as far as he knew, we had a deal."
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Man Says Meta's Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers
A man complains Muse gave out his address and sent a stranger to his home after letting the AI handle his Facebook Marketplace account.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 29/09/2026
Depraved AI image prompts, and the human contractors that sift through them.
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Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts
Human contractors are reviewing Microsoft Copilot user's image editing prompting, many of which are for sexually explicit material.
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