A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscription
For Stephen, who had already been tinkering with other chatbots, learning about Brockman’s donation was the final straw. “That’s really the straw that broke the...
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The Download: Solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued
Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. But as interest in the...
The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin
All this means that actors, whether well-resourced organizations or grassroots collectives, have a clear path to deploying politically persuasive AI at scale. Early demonstrations have...
OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
Chains of thought are like scratch pads that models use to break down tasks, make notes, and plan their next actions. Analyzing them can give...
OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
Stereotypical imagery When we tested Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model, we found that it, too, is marred by harmful caste stereotypes. Sora generates both videos and...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Iwuala, who now works as a professional translator between English and Igbo, said the users doing the most damage are inexperienced and see AI translations...
After an outcry, OpenAI swiftly rereleased 4o to paid users. But experts say it should not have removed the model so suddenly.
OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use....
OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
“The vast majority of our [enterprise and startup] customers are already using a lot of open models,” said Casey Dvorak, a research program manager at...
OpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT for college students
A handful of college students who were part of OpenAI’s testing cohort—hailing from Princeton, Wharton, and the University of Minnesota—shared positive reviews of Study Mode,...
The Download: Meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI
When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services, longevity enthusiasts were excited. As...