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New AI Tech Gives Twitch Streamers Constant, Creepy Eye Contact
24.1.2023
Nvidia’s come up with new AI-powered tech that swaps out your real eyes for digital ones that will never stop looking at your webcam. It’s very creepy, and one more sign of how unnatural you have to act online to become a popular streamer in 2023.Read more
RIP: Programmer 'Euthanizes' His $1,000 AI VTuber 'Waifu'
12.1.2023
You’ve met an AI YouTuber who plays Minecraft and denies the Holocaust. Now meet a fully responsive AI girlfriend who can converse with its user. Except it’s too late to meet her, because its creator recently “euthanized” her for being a detriment to his health. ChatGPT-Chan didn’t even last...
Some Of My Favorite Images From ArtStation's AI Protests
21.12.2022
For the past week, ArtStation—the world’s most popular portfolio site for professional (and amateur!) artists working in the entertainment business—has been rocked by protests from its users, after owners Epic Games refused to offer adequate protections against the growing threat of AI-generated...
ArtStation Responds To AI Controversy, Makes Things Worse
15.12.2022
Both professional and amateur artists alike were united yesterday in protest against ArtStation, the field’s biggest portfolio site, for its seeming inaction against a rising tide of AI-generated imagery washing up on its front page.Read more
Artists Protest After ArtStation Features AI-Generated Images
14.12.2022
ArtStation is probably the most important website on the whole internet for professional artists, especially those working in entertainment fields like video games (most of our Fine Art links, for example, point there). Which is why the site’s continued allowance of AI-generated imagery has become...
Warzone 2.0: The DMZ AI Difficulty Is Too Damn High
2.12.2022
As far as I’m concerned, Call of Duty’s new DMZ mode isn’t just CoD’s best game type, it’s one of the best shooter game modes I’ve played in years. It’s the familiar rush of a good shooter with great, roaming tactics that demand smart and reactive planning. But recent adjustments to the AI in this...
Facebook Says It Has Created A 'Human-Level' Board Game AI
23.11.2022
Facebook, or as we’re supposed to call them now Meta, announced earlier today that their CICERO artificial intelligence has achieved “human-level performance” in the board game Diplomacy, which is notable for the fact that’s a game built on human interaction, not moves and manoeuvres (like,...
Anime Convention Bans All AI-Generated Art
16.11.2022
AI-generated artwork, an ethical and copyright nightmare that is pissing artists off the world over, is finding resistance everywhere from Newgrounds to Fur Affinity to, in this latest case, an anime convention that has described AI art as “counterfeit merchandise”.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077: This ‘Trickshot Grenade’ Build Will Totally Change The Combat
20.10.2022
Most builds in Cyberpunk aim for very familiar concepts: stealthy hackers, invincible punching machines, frighteningly accurate snipers, deadly fast katana wielding samurais, and many more. Those are all fun ways to play for sure, but if you want something that shows off smart choices in skill...
Thief Steals Genshin Impact Fan Art Using AI, Demands Credit From Creator
13.10.2022
I don’t think I’ve ever seen art theft quite like this before. Two days ago, a Genshin Impact fanartist was painting a new creation on Twitch. Before they could even finish the fanart and post it to Twitter, one of their viewers fed the work-in-progress into an AI generator and “completed”...
AI-Generated Games Are Starting To Appear On Steam (And It's Not Going Well)
19.9.2022
It was bound to happen. AI-generated art pieces are popping up in competitions, despite much controversy, and they’re likely already flooding your social media feeds in some way or form. The big promise behind the ability to generate detailed images with just a few prompts and clicks, after all,...
AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare
26.8.2022
It’s August 2022, and by now you’ve no doubt read (or more likely seen) something about AI art by now. Whether it’s random jokes made for Twitter or paintings that look like they were made by actual human beings, artificial intelligence’s ability to create art has exploded onto the scene over...