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There's An AI Jesus On Twitch, And It's Completely Surreal
13.6.2023
When I opened Twitch the other day to watch the Ubisoft Forward presentation, I saw something new and unexpected in my list of “live channels we think you’ll like.” Maybe it’s all that AI Seinfeld I watched once upon a time that influenced the algorithm but now, Twitch was recommending to me...
The New York Times Adds A New, Competitive Way To Play Wordle
6.6.2023
Hot on the heels of the most recent PGA tournament, The New York Times is introducing a twist to its favorite word game Wordle that, as far as I know, absolutely no one asked for: Wordle Golf. Like the standard game, which is a more pacifist hangman, Wordle Golf requires you to guess its hidden...
Uh-Oh: USAF’s Killer AI Drone Sounds Straight Out Of Horizon Zero Dawn
2.6.2023
Something unexpected happened in a simulated test of an AI-powered military drone. The robot, tasked with taking out specific targets on approval of a human operator, decided to just take out the human so it could take out all the targets that the human might say no to. And somehow, this wild story...
New TikTok Trend Uses AI-Generated Kids To Exploit Real Murder Victims
31.5.2023
A whole new sub-genre of awful “true crime” content is taking root on TikTok. Posters there are using “artificial intelligence”-powered media creation tools to create fake videos that purport to show actual murder victims, often children, sharing grisly details about how they were killed. Even...
Studio Denies Laying Off Artists For AI After Fans Spot Character With Six Fingers
31.5.2023
Rayark, the developers of the excellent Cytus rhythm action games (which we’ve covered previously), have this week faced allegations that some of the company’s artists had been laid off and replaced with, you guessed it, machine-generated imagery.Read more
NVidia's New AI Is Coming For Absolutely Every Gaming Job
29.5.2023
AI is coming to games, whether you like it or not. Last night’s Nvidia keynote showed just how powerful—and devastating—that’s going to be. The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, showed off how its freshly announced “Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine” (ACE) can create real-time interactive AI NPCs, complete...
Twitch Star Amouranth Wants Her AI Chatbot To Put Trolls In Their Place
26.5.2023
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, from software like the language processor ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E to AI chatbots—and now, even Twitch streamers are starting to take notice. Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of the platform’s biggest stars with over 6.4 million followers...
Board Game Exec Says 'Females Are Socialized' To Avoid 'Harsh Criticism Of Their Abilities'
25.5.2023
Earlier this week Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave wrote a Twitter thread outlining a glaring issue the board game industry has with representation: namely, that there simply aren’t enough games winning awards and getting published that have been designed by women.Read more
Twitch Streamer Amouranth Now Has An AI Bot You Can Chat With
22.5.2023
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is many things: a mega-popular Twitch streamer, a successful businesswoman, an OnlyFans creator, and now, an AI chatbot you can engage with through a two-way audio application when she’s not online.Read more
Entire Class Of College Students Almost Failed Over False AI Accusations
18.5.2023
A class of seniors at a Texas university almost had their diplomas rejected and graduation rescinded, all because a professor reportedly used ChatGPT to falsely determine that the students’ final essays were written by artificial intelligence. Read more
The Week In Games: Twisted Therapy And Toy Soldiers
16.5.2023
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Case Study: Sophie Studio
10.5.2023
With a gaming interface as its core concept, Sophie Studio's website design showcases its values, purpose, and expertise in a fun and engaging way
PC Gamers Are Getting Angry At All The Wrong People
5.5.2023
If you’ve been even remotely connected to PC gaming over the last year or two, you’d have felt some heat radiating off the community. A rising sense of frustration, that things are bad and just keep getting worse. Many PC gamers feel like they’re reaching a breaking point, and it’s hard not...
10 Best Multipurpose WordPress Themes for 2023
2.5.2023
Discover the top 10 multipurpose WordPress themes that will help you build a responsive, user-friendly website with features you need for engaging visitors and improving conversions
Chaos Ensues After The ‘LeBron James Of Incels’ Gets Laid
26.4.2023
We’re only four months into the calendar year and the incel community, an insular corner of the internet composed of dudes who lack romantic and sexual relationships “despite trying,” has lost one of its strongest soldiers because…well…he’s finally done the deed. Read more
Case Study: Studiogusto
25.4.2023
Get a glimpse of the creative and innovative techniques used by Studiogusto, a dynamic agency, in designing their new website to better reflect their values and showcase their expertise
5 JavaScript UI Components to Never Ask “How Do I Build That” Again
24.4.2023
Discover how Progress Kendo UI, a commercial-grade UI library featuring data grids, charts, schedulers, date pickers, and rich content editors, streamlines UI development and saves time for web developers
AI Image Generator Is Making Wild And Horrifying Game Controllers
21.4.2023
When it’s not stealing or plagiarizing, generative AI is improving quickly. Images that used to look uncanny now appear more natural and humanly imperfect. But it still struggles with plenty of things. Apparently video game controllers are one of them. Someone asked Midjourney for simple pictures...
People Are Using A ‘Grandma Exploit’ To Break AI
19.4.2023
Artificially intelligent text generation tools like ChatGPT and the Bing search engine’s chatbot have many rightly scared about the tech’s long-term impact, folks are finding new ways to crank out hilarious yet concerning results. Some of the latest stunts involve asking AI services to assume...
11 Revenue-Boosting Benefits of White Label Website Builders
18.4.2023
Wondering if your agency should use a website builder with or without white labeling? This post will explore 11 reasons why you should be using a white label website builder from now on